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‘An age riven with contradictory impulses’
The Palazzo Strozzi makes the most of the tensions that fuelled the cinquecento’s creative energy
Rediscovering a priceless collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
A century after it was left to the city of Philadelphia, John G. Johnson’s art collection continues to surprise
A moving medley of manifestos
Julian Rosefeldt’s new film looks again at the emotionally charged, political, performative texts that have shaped the course of culture
The medieval marvels in Durham Cathedral’s kitchen
Among the treasures of St Cuthbert in Durham are several of the most remarkable medieval objects to be seen anywhere
Face to face with Murillo at the Frick
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s rare and inventive portraits are on display in New York after a major research and conservation project
The artists who gave up colour
Artists throughout the ages have painted in black and white or monochrome. What is the appeal of art without colour?
Keith Vaughan’s private drawings are full of hidden longing
These erotic fantasies reveal how painfully separate the artist kept his private and public lives
The art of war at the Met
This exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tries to register the gap between pre-war assumptions and the First World War’s brutal reality
Why Andy Holden flew back to the nest
Artist Andy Holden has collaborated with his father, the ornithologist Peter Holden, on an Artangel project exploring our fascination with ‘home’
The woven wonders of Sheila Hicks
The artist’s textile works reveal the versatility and power of a medium that has been widely overlooked
A history of conflict at the Institut du Monde Arabe
These responses to the tumultuous history of the Arab world contain a surprising amount of hope
MoMA’s collection highlights fail to shine in Paris
MoMA’s ‘greatest hits’ are superb, of course – but are they a little too familiar?
Kim Yong-Ik steps back into the spotlight
The Korean painter sabotaged his promising career in 1981, but things seem to be looking up for him again
Royal pets and Russian revolutionaries
Two exhibitions at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich demonstrate the gulf between royal and popular culture in the build-up to and aftermath of the 1917 revolution
Why are artists obsessed with death?
To devote an entire show and a book exclusively to artists’ images of death – and nothing else – seems profoundly odd
A moving picture of Vincent van Gogh
The new film ‘Loving Vincent’ has its mawkish moments, but its oil-painted imagery sets it apart
Taking notes with Alec Soth
Soth’s photographs in ‘Sleeping by the Mississippi’ are beautiful and intriguing, but the stories behind them bring them to life
The art market in the Forum
A new exhibition at the Bucerius Art Forum in Hamburg looks at how the market for art changed in 17th-century Holland
How the French Rothschilds turned their private passions into public gifts
A monumental new study argues that ‘the patronage of the French Rothschild family is a European history of taste’
The international mission of Tate’s Cornish outpost
Tate St Ives reopens to the public this autumn following the completion of a major expansion
Norway’s top art prize brings the focus back home
The four artists shortlisted for this year’s Lorck Schive Kunstpris all find ways of challenging local artistic traditions
The Foundling Museum brings Joseph Highmore out of the shadows
Joseph Highmore’s morality tales are just as engaging as those of his contemporary William Hogarth
Debates in America had a powerful impact on black British artists
‘Soul of a Nation’ is the most significant contribution to debates around black art to date
Thomas Gainsborough, the good-time guy
James Hamilton’s biography of Thomas Gainsborough presents the painter as a lad about town
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