The eye may be our most perceptive organ, but it can sometimes make us blind to the other senses
Thanks to mass production (and reproduction), in the 19th-century some middle-class homes began to resemble miniature picture galleries
For seven decades, Milton Gendel recorded his charmed existence in delightfully candid photos and diaries
Other European dynasties of the period had equally thriving court cultures, but none has had such a hold on the popular imagination
Tanya Harrod’s biography of the unfairly neglected painter champions his scenes of London working-class life
The Polish artist sometimes worked at a monumental scale, but her most impressive works are less about the size than the power of their expression
An illuminating exhibition in Vienna explores how artists from the Greeks on have revelled in rivalries
Ayo Akingbade’s new short film, set in the first Guinness factory to be built outside of the UK and Ireland, reveals a troubling story of labour and power
Denis Wirth-Miller was unfairly dismissed as an imitator of his friend Francis Bacon, but it’s now clear that his detractors were wholly in the wrong
In Obsidian’s new video game, you are a 16th-century Bavarian painter – but progress on your masterpiece is interrupted by parochial violence
Having spent most her life serving others, Nellie Mae Rowe came to art in her retirement years and found a joyful defiance in the creation of other-worldly scenes
The St Ives painter best known for his abstract works also created his own kind of figurative art
The artist’s drawings of women are a testament to his private proclivities. It’s no wonder he never put them on public display
Lace-making is an exacting craft – and who gets to wear the results is an equally delicate matter
The photographer refers to all the women she photographs as icons, but it is in her home town of Belfast where her subjects truly come alive
Helen Saunders was briefly at the forefront of British modernism – before she was cancelled by Wyndham Lewis
A survey of paintings by M.K. Čiurlionis at the Dulwich makes plain why the artist is heralded in his home country as a visionary
Exiled in England, Napoleon III’s widow made sure that for as long she lived there was a corner of Hampshire that was forever France
The photographer’s seething retrospective at MoMA captures what it was like to be young and carefree after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Long undervalued in comparison to his peers, the Renaissance painter now has the critical esteem he deserves in the form of a fine catalogue
A new book does justice to the life and work of the little-known artist Suzanne Cooper
A journey through four decades of the South African artist’s works reveals the steady evolution of his talent
The four nominees for this year’s prize are presenting their biggest, brightest work but not all of it is saying very much
The paintings acquired by the earls of Pembroke over several generations now have the catalogue they deserve
