Aside from the usual refreshments, the city’s taverns offered a highly engineered form of popular entertainment
The artists of Ukrainian modernism have often been miscategorised as Russian, but an exhibition of avant-garde art seeks to redress the balance
Archer Milton Huntington’s collection forms the backbone of the Hispanic Society in New York, but is his vision a hopelessly romantic view from the past?
Theodoor Rombouts was a great assimilator of styles, but he was more than just another of the Caravaggisti
Has Compton Verney uncovered the identity of the mysterious Master of the Countess of Warwick?
A show in Paris reveals there may be more to the French artist’s paintings than meets the eye
This curious film about the painter Edward Brezinski suggests that not all forgotten artists are candidates for rehabilitation
An exhibition in Rome recounts the complicated tale of efforts to safeguard masterpieces across the country during the Second World War
A crowded display sees some 150 works of Abstract Expressionism clamouring for attention, but perhaps this is the point
The artist takes her Golden Lion-winning work celebrating the extraordinary achievements of Black women in music from Venice to the English seaside
The Norwegian American’s trippy sculptures are cult classics in the making
The French national library's exceptional collections now have the setting they deserve
Robert O’Byrne reads between the lines of the itemised contents of great Irish houses
David Young Kim’s ingenious study of grounds and figures takes the reader on an unfamiliar journey through familiar territory
Eero Saarinen’s marriage to the publicist Aline Louchheim tells us a lot about how the architect made his name
The painter who defined the experience of modern New York never felt quite at home in the high-rise city
An exhibition at the Städel Museum shows that the baroque painter’s idealised figures are certainly an acquired taste
Hyperrealist sculptors today, and still-life painters of the past, have all tried to trick their viewers into accepting fiction as truth
The imposing architecture of the Palazzo del Banco di Napoli makes a fitting stage for the artist’s gruesome scenes of greed and retribution
Laura Poitras’s documentary about the photographer is an inspiring account of her blurring of the lines between life, art and activism
In her score-settling memoir, Roselyn Bachelot calls out ungrateful artists and time-serving bureaucrats
The artist’s mastery of unusual materials gave her a real edge over her peers
Robert Bevan’s call to require a lot less from our public monuments has much to recommend it
Giorgio Vasari’s famous collection of Renaissance drawings was dispersed after his death, and scholars have been trying track down its contents for centuries
