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‘How do you solve a problem like Thérèse?’ – Balthus in Madrid reviewed
Balthus’ strange, dream-like paintings deliberately set out to unsettle viewers
A new tower of Babel rises in the Bodleian Library
We know what translation can do – but what does it look like? Eight centuries of multilingual activity is on show in Oxford
Sheela Gowda shows her extraordinary works made out of everyday materials in Milan
The artist’s installations seem completely at home in the HangarBicocca
Julian Schnabel makes us see through Van Gogh’s eyes – At Eternity’s Gate reviewed
The film tries to imagine what being the painter was like – the results are as stressful, and appealing, as you might expect
The Dutchman who shaped our view of Italy
Celebrated abroad, but little known at home, Caspar van Wittel more or less singlehandedly invented view painting
Flooded streets and cars at sea – the watery world of Nick Goss
Goss experiments with traditional painting techniques to depict scenes of everyday life with a dreamlike twist
Channel crossings – Britain’s patchy history of collecting French art
A catalogue of the National Gallery’s 18th-century French paintings points to past peculiarities of British taste
Siah Armajani’s language of exile
The Iranian-born sculptor gets his first retrospective in his adopted home country of America
Seeing past the shock value of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs
The photographer’s formally composed, sometimes graphic work is still hard to pin down
Martin Parr takes on Brexit Britain
The photographer’s survey of the British at home and abroad takes on a suitably surreal air at the National Portrait Gallery
Dutch courage – Jan Sluijters, Holland’s little-known modernist
After flirting with Fauvism and other French modes in Paris, the painter brought home a dazzling palette – only to bottle it later on
The kaleidoscopic visions of Emma Kunz
The Swiss spiritualist used drawings to diagnose patients, but her works are now regarded as art
Shell company – how a family of naturalists captured marine life
Science, art and natural history are intertwined in the Lister family’s monumental Historiae Conchyliorum
The sitting targets of Lucian Freud
In his unsparing portraits, Freud pursued his mission to describe things exactly as they are
Rediscovering a lost view of London
When Prévost painted his panorama from the tower of St Margaret’s Church, he captured a city on the cusp of change
The European armoury that inspired Henry Moore
It was on visits to the Wallace Collection that the sculptor first became fascinated with the form of the helmet
How Pierre Bonnard became carried away by colour
The more you look, the more mysterious the bright landscapes and paintings of his wife in the bath seem
A chameleon who never lost his feeling for clay – Lucio Fontana at the Met
The Italian artist was a breathtakingly gifted ceramicist who flirted with too many other mediums
Nature boys – Hockney and Van Gogh in Amsterdam
Hockney has followed the Dutch painter’s lead in his intensely coloured responses to the call of the wild
Voluptuous Venuses and sexy Sebastians – the Renaissance nude at the RA
The rediscovery of classical art in Europe transformed depictions of the naked body
The painter who took a prudent approach to the French Revolution
Louis-Léopold Boilly was a peculiarly adaptable painter in turbulent times
Part of the fabric – draped cloth and diaphanous veils in Renaissance art
How Italian painters and sculptors made clothing conceal and reveal the human form
In blindness, Sargy Mann found new ways to picture the world
After losing his sight, the British painter drew on touch, memory and imagination to continue his work
Mapping a new art world order
What are the key ingredients for success, and what role do Western traditions play, in emerging art scenes and markets?
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