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Hogarth: Place and Progress
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Theaster Gates, Tate Liverpool
The American artist brings a quietly shocking show about slavery to Liverpool
Cars: Accelerating the Modern World, V&A, London
The V&A’s motor show is full of vivid observations — understand it and you will understand humanity
Anselm Kiefer, White Cube, London; Ged Quinn, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Anselm Kiefer’s mind-blowing White Cube show gives us the bigger picture: it’s outrageously ambitious
Dora Maar, Tate Modern, London
Just don’t mention the P-word: Dora Maar was so much more than Picasso’s surrealist sidekick, as this intriguing — and frustrating — new show demonstrates
Caravaggio and Bernini, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
A Caravaggio and Bernini show in Vienna offers an exciting, intimate vision of the baroque era
Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits, Royal Academy, London
Freudian slips: this retrospective reveals that the artist’s ambition was greater than his abilities