The biennial festival stays stays close to home with a poignant look at the city’s people and proud cultural heritage
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Gregory Crewdson at the Photographers’ Gallery
The photographer Gregory Crewdson’s latest show inspires less a sense of existential despair than one of contrived absurdity
Germany 1919-1933 at Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool’s examination of Germany between the wars through portraits, both painted and photographed, reveals a country descending into darkness
Khandija Saye
A full version of Waldemar’s text remembering the work of Khandija Saye – young artist, who died in Grenfell Tower fire
Mondrian, but not as you know him
There’s more to Holland’s most famous proponent of De Stijl than rectangles, as this detailed exhibition in the Hague shows
Grayson Perry at the Serpentine Gallery
He is a man at the top of his game — and the queen of nimble social observation in his new London show
Raphael — The Drawings
Raphael’s drawings at the Ashmolean mark a resurgence in his popularity — and they are full of technical surprises
Hokusai — Beyond the Great Wave
The British Museum’s Hokusai exhibition shows the restless vigour and energy that the great Japanese artist brought to his work well into his eighties
Venice Biennale
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 at Tate Modern
Giacometti’s stickies are persons of substance after all, as this clever show proves