Michael Prodger is a senior research fellow at the University of Buckingham and art critic for the New Statesman,
The plan to redesign the Sainsbury Wing for the museum’s bicentenary soon morphed into a comprehensive rehang. How well does it succeed?
The painter’s vibrant domestic scenes are full of revealing details – and so is Isabelle Cahn’s weighty new biography of the painter
Spanning several continents and 13,000 years of graphic art, Susan Owens’s new book outlines the many reasons why artists have always been drawn to drawing
The renovated Fondation Bemberg in Toulouse is a fitting home for its founder’s eclectic art collection
An exhibition in Venice of the French artist’s work is conceptually dense, but does it work in visual terms?
The lessons learned by the city’s painters in the 1500s brought about radical new forms of expression
The Sainsbury Centre’s new director is taking a more touchy-feely approach to displaying the permanent collection
Securing the services of Willem Van de Velde and his son was a coup for Charles II – and it put wind in the sails of England’s own maritime art tradition
Theodoor Rombouts was a great assimilator of styles, but he was more than just another of the Caravaggisti
An illuminating exhibition in Vienna explores how artists from the Greeks on have revelled in rivalries
