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The comic genius of Joe Brainard
The artist made more than 100 drawings of the comic-strip character Nancy, and the results are profound as well as witty
The effortless unease of Thomas Schütte
The sculptor’s grotesque figures and expressive faces reflect us back to ourselves in uncomfortable and witty ways
The Louvre puts on its first fashion show
The Louvre puts on its first fashion showHigh fashion meets fine art for the first time in an exhibition at the Paris museum. With so much to see, it‘s hard to know where to look
The softer side of Anselm Kiefer
Two exhibitions for the German painter’s 80th birthday show his great range, from maximalist masterpieces to surprisingly intimate works
A modern classic about ancient sculpture
Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny’s landmark history of the afterlife of classical sculpture has been refreshed to give it even more longevity
When Chinese goods first went global
The Met takes the well-trodden story of chinoiserie over the centuries and gives it a welcome feminist twist
The awesome landscapes of José María Velasco
The 19th-century painter’s views of the Valley of Mexico are at once scientific documents and odes to a landscape in flux
The many faces of Medardo Rosso
The sculptor’s impressionistic works – and the photographs he took of them – always highlight the humanity of his subjects
Meet two heroines of Irish modernism
Tutored in Paris in the 1920s, Dublin-born artists Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone brought a boldly avant-garde sensibility to traditional subjects
The art of long-distance communication
The invention of the telegraph in a fractured post-Revolutionary France collapsed time and space, changing visual culture for ever
The British Royal Family’s love of bling
The Edwardians are associated with elegance but an exhibition at the King’s Gallery in London suggests that excess was the hallmark of the age
The Black artists who found themselves in post-war Paris
The Pompidou presents African, Caribbean and American artists who could be free in the French capital in ways often denied to them at home
Armchair travel in the Middle Ages
At the Morgan Library in New York, a selection of guides to foreign lands reveals a bustling Middle Ages full of fantastical visions
When a picture looks good enough to eat
This chronicle of iconophagy – the act of consuming an image – is an enlightening if occasionally stodgy read
How two artists have weathered one stormy marriage
The ups and downs in the lives of photographer Joel Meyerowitz and the writer and artist Maggie Barrett makes for documentary dynamite
Munch behind the mask
Self-portraits and depictions of family and friends build a picture of the ‘Scream’ artist as insider rather than outsider, more savvy than angsty
The drugged-up doodles of Henri Michaux
The artist’s mescaline trips in the 1950s and ’60s led to extraordinary acts of creativity, when he tried to pin down their effect on paper
The jazzy life of Gertrude Abercrombie
Once a central figure in Chicago’s mid-century art and jazz scene, this Surrealist painter was long forgotten – until now
Sebastiano del Piombo’s sound beginning
A new study of the 16th-century painter highlights his musical training and makes some bold claims about attribution
Swimming and style – a brief history
The Design Museum’s deep dive into swimming shows that people have always felt the urge to get into the water, for survival, sport or fun
Keita Morimoto turns Tokyo into a nocturnal no-man’s-land
In the painter’s night-time scenes, occasional isolated figures play second fiddle to the anonymous urban settings they inhabit
The singular vision of Svetlana Alpers
As a selection of her essays makes clear, the eminent art historian has always been committed to looking as a means of understanding
To infinity and beyond with Caspar David Friedrich
The high priest of German Romanticism is at his best when practising a minimalism that requires maximum imaginative effort from the viewer
Celia Paul faces the ghosts of her past
In recent portraits and seascapes the painter ponders time and memory, and the legacy of Lucian Freud and co.
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