Laura Cumming’s best art of 2021

The blockbuster battled on, British Caribbean art came home, and from Iran to Nero’s Rome, art transported us far and wideMark Kermode’s best films of 2021Read the Observer critics’ review of 2021 in full hereThis was the year of the great exhibition – in spite of the plague. Galleries offered online shows when they couldn’t open and riches when they could, no matter the havoc of cancelled loans, insurance hikes and unreliable transport. Schedules were dextrously sh