The Bard Graduate Center’s exhibition proves that there is a piece of French porcelain for every occasion, be it formal, witty, serious or slight
The greatest Flemish sculptor of the baroque is finally receiving his dues, and in the perfect setting
In his virtuosic variations on the colour black, the French artist achieved an astonishing degree of variety
An inventive show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art is a thrilling introduction to a modern master of American art
There’s much to enjoy at this year’s exhibition in Bradford, but radical ambition seems to be in short supply
The artist’s early paintings were a necessary preparation for his pioneering less-is-more installations
Call them Neo-Impressionists, pointillists or divisionists, the artists who followed in the wake of their older French contemporaries had a distinctive way of seeing the world
The painter’s hugely restrained works are usually described as figurative, but perhaps they mark the precise point where abstraction and figuration meet
A new book by Leslie Primo argues that cultural cross-pollination is at the heart of Britain’s national story
The Très Riches Heures, a rarely seen 15th-century book of hours begun by the three Limbourg brothers, was ever a star among manuscripts
A biography of the Purist artist Amédée Ozenfant brings welcome attention to an esoteric period of modernism
Paul Poiret over-extended himself in every way and died a commercial failure but a century later, his designs still have the power to startle
The Californian artist made a splash in the 1960s, but withdrew from the commercial art world to devote himself to Zen Buddhism
The artist has built a full-size fish and chip shop entirely out of felt – and the results look good enough to eat
An exhibition of art made with children in mind demonstrates that kids can be the most demanding of connoisseurs
The National Army Museum shows that there was more to military art than patriotism and propaganda
From copious writings to portraits, decorative arts and more, the monarch left behind a rich cultural legacy
After an avant-garde start, the Australian painter upped sticks to rural New South Wales and began painting life on the farm
The story of how the painter’s ‘degenerate’ works did or didn’t return to Berlin’s Nationalgalerie makes for a gripping show
Many of the 81-year-old photographer’s images were made when even taking a camera to the streets was an act of resistance in Chile
The Courtauld presents a tantalising show of work by Louise Bourgeois, Alice Adams and Eva Hesse
It was the painter’s misfortune to be surrounded by Bloomsbury Group writers whose accounts of her have been too dominant for too long
The French painter was unusual among his Impressionist peers for preferring to depict men at work and at play
One of history’s most mysterious political paintings might hold lessons for our own time – if we could make out the meaning
