There’s no disguising the gruesomeness of the trade that underpinned the scientific advances of the 18th century
Piranesi may have fallen out with his Irish patron but, in modern-day Dublin, artists inspired by his example are looking to mend fences
Since the invention of the medium, photography has always had an ambiguous relationship with architecture
An extremely close look at François Boucher’s portrait of the marquise in the Fogg Museum at Harvard homes in on the painter’s use of his signature colour
The artist’s latest film shows how the past permeates the present in a series of sumptuous scenes – but is it saying anything new?
Stephen Ellcock and Mat Osman try to bring visions of Albion up to date in their book ‘England on Fire’
Many artists have recorded their most intimate moments, but why should anyone else be interested in the results?
An ambitious exhibition at the Beaux-Arts de Paris considers the mutual rivalry between art and science over the centuries
A glittering array of objects and manuscripts from around the world shows off the astonishing diversity of the permanent collection
A groundbreaking study looks at the slave labour on which France’s maritime ambitions depended
Van Leo’s portraits capture a lost world and are in a class of their own, writes Raphael Cormack
Ramily was a pioneer who captured the newly independent country as it wanted to be seen
An exhibition at the Musée Marmottan Monet considers how artists have tried to represent feeling through the centuries
For all his care to balance the traditions of his Venetian forebears with the style of his US contemporaries, Afro Basaldella came to be seen as an Abstract Expressionist
Chauncey Hare was compared to Walker Evans and Diane Arbus, but he came to find the art world as repressive as the corporate world he loathed
The artist refused to paint people, preferring instead to focus on remote landscapes and natural phenomena
The Musée d’Orsay’s survey of the French sculptor is admirably thorough, but his art was more modern than we’re often led to believe
The American artist’s ‘Black Chapel’ is an imposing addition to the manicured lawns of Kensington Gardens but is it where you’ll find perfection?
They're now little more than popular amusements – but with their discomfiting realism, wax effigies were once considered fit for royalty
In attempting to give an account of ‘feminine power’ through the ages, the British Museum raises far more questions than it answers
The subject of football and all its attendant paraphernalia makes for a surprisingly joyful exhibition
The British artist's retrospective might appear visually weighty, but the work pays little attention to the history and politics of the materials used
The artist’s true genius lay in the superhuman pace with which he mastered new styles
Iris Moon’s account of how masters of the decorative arts adapted to turbulent times is a suitably unsettling affair
