• An interview with Yinka Shonibare
• Monsters in modern art
• Wordsworth among the artists
• Has LACMA lost its way?
Plus: cinema in the museum, art nouveau in Nancy, zingers at the Zwinger, and the paintings of Beauford Delaney
Liliane Lijn | Picasso | Mughal painting | Impressionism
Jan Švankmajer | Pompeii | Cat ladies
Museum of West African Art | Jeremy Frey | Ed Ruscha
Napoleon Bonaparte | Caspar David Friedrich | the Impressionists
The museum is set to close in 2025, leaving a hole in the city’s arts scene and adding to growing disquiet about its general direction
It suits us to think of the movement as unpopular, but the passing of time makes it harder to see why the first Impressionist Exhibition of 1874 made such a stir
The museum’s head of framing, Peter Schade, is quietly changing how we see some of the world’s most famous pictures
The artist did his best to destroy any traces of his work as a designer, but the little that survives offers new perspectives on his art