• Modern art at the Imperial War Museum
• The cover art of Andrew Cranston
• Tashkent bets big on cultural tourism
• Man of the cloth: an interview with Karun Thakar
Plus: social media influencers and the artworld, an unsettling Austrian arts festival, taking Philip Guston on his own terms, and reviews of Manet/Degas at the Met, Irish botanical illustration and the unpredictable art of Nicolas de Staël
Fifty years on, this biopic of Edvard Munch deserves a new lease of life
Peter Watkins’ 1974 film is no ordinary portrait of the artist – and feels more current than ever as the art-historical canon is up for debate