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The unsettling domesticity of Jean Cooke
The claustrophobia in this British painter’s work hints at a talent stifled by her better-known artist husband
Did Italian art ever really take a Romantic turn?
Italian artists have been neglected in histories of the pan-European movement
The most beautiful boy in the Roman empire
Antinous, favourite of the emperor Hadrian, was commemorated all over the Roman world. He is a more troubling figure today
‘Joan Mitchell is the real star here’
Pairing the Abstract Expressionist’s work with that of her longtime partner Jean-Paul Riopelle makes it clear she was the greater artist
The freedom Gainsborough found in painting his family
The artist’s portraits of his household are more spontaneous than his commercial work
Poetry and pessimism at the 12th Shanghai Biennale
Grand narratives of progress are undermined in a surprisingly understated edition of the Chinese biennial
The modern painters who were mad about Frans Hals
Van Gogh, Whistler, Sargent and Manet were just some of the major artists who made pilgrimages to Haarlem to see Hals’s work
Close encounters with the gods in court paintings from north India
Painters at the Pahari courts found new ways to represent the Hindu gods in the 17th and 18th centuries
The cosmopolitan art of Anglo-Saxon England
The British Library demonstrates that Anglo-Saxon culture looked to Europe and beyond
The endless inventions of Bruce Nauman
Drawing, video, sculpture and performance – no medium is out of bounds for the titan of American art
How Mantegna and Bellini reshaped the Renaissance
A thrilling survey of the two quattrocento masters highlights their many differences
This film inspired by Gerhard Richter won’t tell you much about his art
Never Look Away is based on the life of the great German artist – but it doesn’t do justice to his work
Kinetic art – a field that has always refused to stand still
From Calder to Kusama, modern and contemporary artists have created many different versions of kinetic art
The impressive cultural achievements of China’s Qing empresses
New research shows that women in the Forbidden City had more influence on the arts than previously thought
Harold Gilman cuts a dash
In praise of the Camden Town painter’s bold brushwork and daring draughtsmanship
Tintoretto’s drawings fizz with energy and invention at the Morgan
The 500th anniversary of the Venetian master’s birth prompts this celebration of his sprightly draughtsmanship
The everyday cruelty of Ribera’s world
The baroque painter’s depictions of human suffering are extreme – but so was the violence of much early modern life
New ways of seeing Andy Warhol
As an exhibition at the Whitney proves, there’s far more to the Pop art superstar than Marilyn and soup cans
Delacroix earns his stripes at the Met
A major show at the Met presents the Romantic painter in many different modes
The comic strip genius of Charles M. Schulz
The man who invented Snoopy and the Peanuts gang revolutionised cartoons – both aesthetically and emotionally
Variety and virtuosity – the objets d’art of Luigi Valadier
The 18th-century Roman polymath was commissioned to create luxury goods by popes, royalty and tourists alike
The shock value of Sarah Lucas still hasn’t worn off
Lucas made her name as one of the more provocative YBAs. Two decades later, her work continues to surprise
Mary Swanzy – a modern Irish master?
The work of this accomplished painter has long been hiding in plain sight
How Liotard’s Chocolate Girl charmed the city of Dresden
The Venetian pastellist Rosalba Carriera once described the work as ‘the most beautiful pastel ever seen’
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