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When attacks on art become art
While museums are desperate to stop climate actions involving works of art, a gallery in London has put defaced paintings front and centre, tomato soup and all
Wolfgang Buttress creates a buzz in Liverpool
The artist has been making installations about bees for years. His apian interests are now the subject of an exhibition at the World Museum
The Sienese painters who sparked a revolution in European art
The Sienese painters who sparked a revolution in European artThe innovations of artists in the first half of the 14th century created new pathways for painting for centuries to come
Was Artemisia really bad with money?
A study of the baroque painter’s business practices finds faults with her financial acumen and artistic training – though not everyone will agree
The singular vision of Svetlana Alpers
As a selection of her essays makes clear, the eminent art historian has always been committed to looking as a means of understanding
The shock of the boreal – ‘Northern Lights’ at the Fondation Beyeler, reviewed
Canadian and Scandinavian painters approached their respective landscapes in distinctive ways and with differing levels of realism
The brave new world of Brazilian modernism
Artists were just as dedicated to the avant-garde as their peers in architecture and music, but were their efforts as radical?
The drugged-up doodles of Henri Michaux
The artist’s mescaline trips in the 1950s and ’60s led to extraordinary acts of creativity, when he tried to pin down their effect on paper
Tech bros of Versailles – ‘Science and Splendour’ at the Science Museum, reviewed
Technology and ornament went hand in hand at the court of Louis XIV, and his successors expected the same from the scientific advances of their day
Meet John Singer Sargent’s favourite family
The artist painted the Wertheimers 12 times, in portraits that shed light on the changing fortunes of an extraordinary family
Playing mind games with Joseph Kosuth
As the Hungarian-American artist celebrates his 80th birthday, is his brand of conceptual art still as radical as it once was?
The intimidating art of Louise Nevelson
The artist’s monochrome sculptures made of everyday objects are full of menace and all the more exhilarating for it
High tech before big tech – ‘Electric Dreams’ at Tate Modern, reviewed
These artistic experiments by early embracers of new technologies already look charmingly retro
The avant-garde painters who went round in circles
Whether Orphism can be called a coherent movement is one thing, but its practitioners produced some excellent art
When gladiators roamed the British Isles
A touring exhibition of gladiatorial objects found in Britain makes a stab at getting to the heart of our fascination with the amphitheatre, but does it succeed?
The real saints and scribes of medieval Europe, celebrity edition
The British Library’s exhibition of women in the Middle Ages who were creative and intellectual pioneers is a red-carpet affair
Picabia, the painter who refused to be pinned down
In his final works, some of which have never been shown before, the endlessly restless artist adopted an abstract style that challenges us to look for hidden meanings
The loneliest Bauhaus architect in America – The Brutalist, reviewed
Brady Corbet’s epically long film starring Adrien Brody as a Bauhaus-trained architect in America conveniently pretends that all the real Bauhaus-trained architects who made it to America never existed
The Donald who didn’t like Nazis
The Disney star was a marvel of 20th-century industrial production and the Second World War was his finest hour, writes Todd McEwen
Augustus the Strong’s weakness for luxury
Tim Blanning’s masterful biography demonstrates that the despotic ruler of Saxony and Poland was rubbish at war, but had absolutely fabulous taste in art
The gardens that had to make way for London’s growth
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan’s exhibition about the capital’s lost green spaces yields a rich crop of curiosities
Romare Bearden and all that jazz
The artist’s collages inspired by his time in Paris reflect his love of the city’s music scene and reverence for the likes of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong
The camp mastery of Roger Moore’s Bond
The actor may not have had much range, but he always played himself to perfection and brought that sense of panache to his most famous role
Citizen Guillaume – the painter whose fortunes followed the French Revolution’s
The story of an artist who has been forgotten for nearly 200 years reflects the hopes and failures of the turbulent times he lived through
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