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Pulling faces – the art of showing emotion
An exhibition at the Musée Marmottan Monet considers how artists have tried to represent feeling through the centuries
How Gabriele Finaldi is shaping the future of the National Gallery
As the National Gallery prepares for its upcoming bicentenary, its director Gabriele Finaldi discusses his vision for the future
The photographer who hated office life
Chauncey Hare was compared to Walker Evans and Diane Arbus, but he came to find the art world as repressive as the corporate world he loathed
Striking resemblances – the puppets with a surprisingly political side
Recent industrial action by railworkers in the United Kingdom has got Rakewell thinking about the difference between men and marionettes
Georgia O’Keeffe: Photographer
The Denver Art Museum reveals another side to the modernist painter through her photographs
Shrine of the times – a Yoruba masterpiece in focus
Curator James Green takes a close look at a carving by Bamigboye, a sculptor who represented the beating heart of his community in the early 20th century
Around the galleries – London Art Week takes a musical turn, plus other highlights
The dealers of Mayfair and St James’s have banded together with the Philharmonia Orchestra for a special series of concerts this year
James Morrison’s paintings take us on a journey into the unknown
The artist refused to paint people, preferring instead to focus on remote landscapes and natural phenomena
The pared-down poses of Aristide Maillol
The Musée d’Orsay’s survey of the French sculptor is admirably thorough, but his art was more modern than we’re often led to believe
In the studio with… Dorothy Iannone
The American artist’s studio is split across two rooms – an office and an atelier – in her apartment in Berlin. It is a space ruled by harmony, she says.
Fantasy of the Middle Ages
The Getty Center in Los Angeles explores how the Middle Ages have influenced everything from Harry Potter to Game of Thrones
Why did European nobles go all gooey for waxworks?
They’re now little more than popular amusements – but with their discomfiting realism, wax effigies were once considered fit for royalty
The Design Museum proves that football really is the beautiful game
The subject of football and all its attendant paraphernalia makes for a surprisingly joyful exhibition
Fit for a queen? The quirkiest Jubilee tributes
As the country prepares for a blowout, Rakewell takes a look at some of the more peculiar ways in which people are marking the occasion
Why are New York’s new skyscrapers so bad?
As the Manhattan skyline keeps getting higher, the quality of the skyscrapers crowding the horizon seems to be getting lower and lower
What medieval Christians thought about climate change
Christians in the Middle Ages believed that there was no bad weather in paradise after the Creation and before the Fall of Man
Speed freak – ‘Raphael’ at the National Gallery, reviewed
The artist’s true genius lay in the superhuman pace with which he mastered new styles
Drawn to greatness – the personal collection of Katrin Bellinger
Once a renowned dealer in Old Master drawings, Bellinger’s own collection includes all kinds of works on paper and oils – and she’s committed to sharing what she has
‘This is a new Winslow Homer for our time’
The Met’s new survey reveals a more dramatic, more political side to the American painter
Off the grid – the side of Mondrian you’ve never seen before
A completely overlooked painting, left out of the artist’s catalogue raisonné, makes the case for an unexpectedly messier and much more interesting career
Acting out with Walter Sickert
A triumphant survey at Tate Britain – the largest in 30 years – revels in the British artist’s painterly games
How El Greco rocked Picasso’s world
Carmen Giménez, the curator of an upcoming exhibition in Basel, talks to Apollo about the modernist’s lifelong debt to the Old Master
Taking control – Martine Gosselink’s vision for the Mauritshuis
As the Hague-based institution celebrates its 200th anniversary, museum director Martine Gosselink discusses its heritage and plans for the future
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Why did Renaissance artists steal each other’s drawings?
The monetary value of preparatory studies was slight in the Renaissance – but for the ideas they contained, they were worth their weight in gold