• T.S. Eliot’s attitude to visual art • An interview with Giorgio Griffa • The Penn Museum gets a makeover • Syrian artists in a time of war
PLUS: Modigliani, Japanese bamboo art, how to settle art disputes, and much more
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
Berthe Weill was as devoted to young artists as she was to the cause of modern art – and her efforts are now receiving belated recognition
The museum’s head of framing, Peter Schade, is quietly changing how we see some of the world’s most famous pictures
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 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