In his teeming depiction of animals about to enter the ark, Jan van Kessel put an inventive spin on an original by his grandfather, Jan Brueghel the Elder
The Frist Museum considers the mercantile republic as a melting pot, where foreign fashions, customs and food were readily absorbed
The Morgan Library shows that, although she didn’t own a camera until she was 48, Cameron nudged photography into the realm of fine art
The Prado’s survey of one of the great painters of 16th-century Venice also considers his influences – and the artists he influenced in turn
Even as the military dictatorship repressed civil society in the 1960s, artists resisted the pressure to conform
The sculptor prefers not to have visitors in her sunlit studio in Brooklyn, where she tests materials and rereads books that have influenced her
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Artists’ books come in all shapes, sizes and unusual formats, as this exhibition at the Warburg Institute makes clear
The British Museum presents artefacts of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism and explores how all three faiths changed over centuries
The biophysicist Arthur Solomon built up a formidable art collection that is now on display in Cambridge
