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
Victorian photographers in Italy were inevitably influenced by forms of landscape painting made popular in the preceding century
The Louvre's latest exhibition has revived the vast ancient empire that once united Sudan and Egypt
The Met’s new survey reveals a more dramatic, more political side to the American painter
A triumphant survey at Tate Britain – the largest in 30 years – revels in the British artist’s painterly games
Some of Britain’s finest examples of modern architecture may be under threat, but in Owen Hatherley they have a fierce champion
The seaside scenes of Willie Rodger aren’t necessarily a sunny affair, but they are always full of life
Over the course of an almost a decade, the Scottish artist has gathered and crushed ancient geological specimens to create a work of real conceptual power
The Latvian-born artist takes found photographs and paints over them to make enigmatic and eerie images – but they’re not meant to be scary, she insists
Cecilia Alemani's focus on women artists goes beyond tokenism to present a strong statement about both contemporary art and the world we live in
Frances Sands’ selection from one of the world’s greatest collections of architectural drawings will delight both experts and the general reader alike
In this memoir of sorts, the photographer gives us a masterclass in staying alert and fully alive to the everyday world
