Nicholas Mangan explores the tension between capital and dwindling natural resources, and how they come together in the grim story of asylum seekers held on Nauru.

Diane Arbus’s intimate portraits are the work of a transgressive artist seeking to portray the almost invisible human truth.

An exhibition of Tang dynasty art and objects shows how possessions – even in death – signified power.

Stephanie Rosenthal's sprawling 20th Biennale of Sydney references Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square and Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.

Lloyd Rees’s works remind that drawing is an expression of connectedness to our surroundings.

A major show of Ghanaian-born artist El Anatsui’s opulent sculptures folds and weaves scrap metals with ancient histories.

My Pretty Little Art Career puts Grayson Perry’s life of self-examination on display, from his kinky ceramics to works angrier but no less colourful.

A new exhibition of works by Robert MacPherson at GOMA showcases an artist for whom life, art and work are inextricably bound.

A string of group shows at commercial galleries make a virtue of the conversations that can be had between paintings.