Mona Hatoum’s mysterious installations are suffused with the menacing world in which she grew up

Lucid, engrossing and delightful, Sicily: Culture and Conquest is great art aimed at modern Europe

Tate Britain’s conceptual show is drab, dismal and pretentious, a return to the days when nobody loved modern art

Laurie Anderson, the genius performer and guest director of the 50th Brighton Festival, is living for now. That’s why she’s made a film about her dog

After a frightening health scare, our art critic Waldemar Januszczak checked in to the renowned Mayr clinic. Three merciless weeks of broth, exercise and veg have left him 2 stone and £14,000 lighter — and he feels like a new man

It’s hats off to Biggs & Collings’s gorgeous mosaic fusion of pattern, colour and pictorial ambition at the Vigo Gallery

An icon of western art, Mary Magdalene remains an enigma. Why do we find her so contrary?

Giorgione is a shadowy Renaissance figure. The Royal Academy’s spirited show can’t capture his genius, but sheds thrilling light on his peers

The V&A’s Botticelli show is noisy and vulgar, the Courtauld’s quiet and thoughtful. But they both prove he was so much more than his Venus

Are you ready for Hilma af Klint’s truly avant-garde mix of beautiful abstraction and dotty symbolism at the Serpentine?