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October 2019
• The crowded scenes of William Hogarth
• Are curators getting enough credit?
• An interview with Kiki Smith
• Derek Jarman’s visions of England
Plus: How to show Rembrandt in his best light, previews of TEFAF New York Fall and Frieze Masters, and reviews of the Danish Golden Age in Copenhagen and Marlene Dumas’s take on Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis
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October 2024
Liliane Lijn | Picasso | Mughal painting | Impressionism
September 2024
Jan Švankmajer | Pompeii | Cat ladies
July/August 2024
Museum of West African Art | Jeremy Frey | Ed Ruscha
June 2024
Napoleon Bonaparte | Caspar David Friedrich | the Impressionists
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The surreal films of Jan Švankmajer
When it comes to conjuring the uncanny atmosphere and impossible logic of dreams, the Czech film-maker has few equals
When Francis Bacon made furniture
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
Transforming the National Gallery, one painting at a time
The museum’s head of framing, Peter Schade, is quietly changing how we see some of the world’s most famous pictures
Were the Impressionists really so shocking?
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