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
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
A retrospective of the artist’s distinctive portraits of Black Americans has taken on a new urgency
The artist’s large-scale photos and installations in Edinburgh provide a stirring if uneven meditation on the politics of destruction
The painter’s biblical, classical and allegorical scenes were at once sumptuous flights of fancy and firmly rooted in the material world of Renaissance Venice
The artist’s elegant kinetic contraptions remind us that humans are more mechanical than we like to think
The Gothic Revival masterpieces designed by Alexander Jackson Davis were sought after by some of the most successful Americans of the day
An insightful book looks at the homes Jewish families created for themselves as they joined the land-owning classes in Europe
The French painter was full of compassion for the downtrodden – and had a fair bit of sympathy for the devil, too
In a setting that hints at waiting rooms and hospital wards the artist explores the darker side of institutional care
