Kevin Salatino and Mel Becker Solomon of the Art Institute of Chicago anatomise one of the Abstract Expressionist’s pastel drawings of women
Plus: Arts Council England publishes its new strategic framework, and the husband of slain gallerist Brent Sikkema has been convicted of murder-for-hire
The National Portrait Gallery reminds us how the actor commanded the camera with seeming effortlessness – and explores her long afterlife in art
See the many ways in which artists have celebrated and subverted the Stars and Stripes over the last century and a half
Dual exhibitions at the Musée Condé explore the many ways in which le petit caporal was memorialised and his sister’s impeccable taste in art
The New York museum’s relationship with Pop art goes back to the beginning, as this exhibition attests
To mark 189 years since the death of the influential English clown Joseph Grimaldi, we look at four artworks that explore professional japery through the ages
Ana María Bresciani of the Munchmuseet explains how Edvard Munch turned the canteen of an Oslo chocolate factory into a de facto gallery of modern art
Plus: plans for President Trump’s triumphal arch have been approved; Lord Sainsbury has donated £91.2m to the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich; and the founding director of EMST in Athens has died
This exhibition at the New York Historical argues that for all the importance of the ‘Founding Fathers’, we ought not to forget the radical contributions of the founding mothers and sisters
