‘I like to capture primal sorts of things’ – an interview with Jeff Wall
The Canadian artist is best known for his large, tableau-like photographs. In a year of several international exhibitions, he talks Craig Burnett through the complex process of making them
The weird reflections of Jean Cocteau
An exhibition in Venice underscores the artist’s restless imagination and shapeshifting tendencies
Manet and Degas face off at the Met
The different approaches of the two great friends and rivals form a thrilling contrast when seen side by side
The guiding hand of Hugo van der Goes
The Netherlandish painter is a master of directing viewers to the telling detail
Stripped back – how a figure freed up Poussin’s painting
A figure that appears in Poussin’s ‘The Baptism of Christ’ may reveal the artist’s (secret) influence
Mixed emotions – the uneasy art of Philip Guston
The artist’s motivations for painting hooded Ku Klux Klan figures were as complicated and unsettling as our reactions as viewers might be
Poussin’s dancers pass the test of time
Time is suspended in Nicolas Poussin’s paintings of dancers who revel in the viewer’s attention
‘Philip Guston’s life traced that of modern art itself’
A new biography by Robert Storr offers a comprehensive yet personal account of the artist’s complex career
Venice in furs – an Inuit collective at the Biennale
The Isuma collective’s new film draws on the history of coerced relocation of Inuit communities in Canada
The literary lineage of Philip Guston
Philip Guston’s engagement with literature cemented his place in the history of art
Pilgrims’ progress? The Vatican Jubilee has frustrated Romans and tourists alike