Phyllida Barlow puts on a jolly good UK show for the 57th Venice Biennale, but the event’s French chief curator has sadly lost her long-winded way

Giacometti’s stickies are persons of substance after all, as this clever show proves

A terrible human being he might have been — does that make Eric Gill less of an artist, too?

We are all self-portraitists now, but let’s put away our phones, please

The Italian futurist Giacomo Balla aimed for dynamism, but is lost in a blurred dimension

Bacon, Hockney, Wilde: Tate Britain’s queer art show is awash with talent — it’s a shame about the feeble work that’s also floated in

His Venice show is the most ambitious exhibition any artist has ever mounted, says Waldemar Januszczak

Thumbs up for Marc Quinn’s marvellous sculptures: they depict a modern crush in a madly ancient world

The National Gallery’s exploration of the alliance between Michelangelo and the obscure Sebastiano is a novel idea, but there’s only one winner

Who knew Claude Cahun and Gillian Wearing would make such a brilliant team at the NPG?