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An outbreak of talent in Great Bardfield
Ravilious, Garwood, Bawden, Binyon… Why were so many artists drawn to a village in Essex?
Italian painting takes a bow in northern France
Picardy’s magnificent collections of Italian paintings shine in a series of exhibitions
Out of the kitchen and into the gallery
Emma Hart’s installation at the Whitechapel proclaims a feminine aesthetic that reaches far beyond the domestic
Collaboration and conversation in Ljubljana
A shared belief in the democratic possibilities of print makes for an optimistic biennial
The political backdrop to Jirō Takamatsu’s art
The Japanese artist deserves to be better known in Britain, but his playful, political work suffers out of context
Scared of the modern?
The British realists of the 1920s and ’30s scrupulously recorded the modern era – but in doing so, they were also avoiding it
The unsolved mysteries of Alberto Giacometti
Giacometti’s art seems as enigmatic as ever in this survey of the sculptor’s work at Tate Modern
Alma-Tadema deserves to be loved again
The artist has fallen so far out of critical fashion that his merits are often completely overlooked
How men dress up for art
From 17th-century cavaliers to today’s celebrities and athletes, artists have always had an eye on men’s fashion
The artistic and personal struggles of John Minton
The British artist’s tense canvases are often troubling psychological self-portraits
Domestic space made strange
The Israel Museum’s inquiry into the idea of home is full of surreal surprises
Smells like art
Many artists have experimented with smell. Now, Somerset House is putting scent at the centre of an exhibition
How Hokusai swept to fame
Hokusai never retired. In fact, he made his finest work in his old age, as this exhibition at the British Museum reminds us
Small but perfectly formed
Examples of Dutch micro-carving on show at the Rijksmuseum are full of astounding detail
Milton Avery’s unique American modernism
An exhibition of the artist’s works at Victoria Miro – the first in London in over a decade – is a lesson in painterly deftness
The short step from pagan portraits to early Christian icons
Pagan and Christian art have more in common than you think – or so a polemical new book argues
The Charterhouse is a time capsule in the centre of London
As part of a former monastic complex, the Charterhouse is a living reminder of London’s medieval past
Bill Viola breathes fresh life into the Renaissance
A thrilling opportunity to see Bill Viola’s work alongside the Renaissance art that inspired it
MoMA puts on a model exhibition about Frank Lloyd Wright
This revelatory show matches Frank Lloyd Wright’s work to his personality and his designs to his ambitions
What has Kassel’s Documenta learned from Athens?
The Kassel leg of Documenta 14 has just opened, but will it fare batter than its much-criticised Athens counterpart?
The grand gestures hiding in Parisian churches
Religious art didn’t die out in the 18th century – Parisian churches are full of large-scale baroque paintings
Has Grayson Perry’s populist approach paid off?
Art must be accessible, says Perry, but it must also make people feel included
Gathering dust at the Whitechapel Gallery
With its abstract qualities and unsettling symbolic significance, dust emerged as a key theme in 20th-century photography
The true scale of Alighiero Boetti’s achievements
The current exhibition at the Cini Foundation in Venice has a conceptual clarity that is entirely in keeping with the Italian artist’s philosophy
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