The bohemians who trained a generation of British artists
Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines turned their backs on the London art world to create an art school with an outsize legacy
The Impressionists who put pastel to paper
As an exhibition at the Royal Academy shows, the Impressionists were never more immediate or intimate than in their drawings
Hockney gets personal at the National Portrait Gallery
The artist has turned his attention to the same five sitters time and again across his 60-year career, to touching effect
Michael Ayrton was a maker of minotaurs – and is himself a forgotten giant
The British artist’s scope and influence have long been neglected – but at the centenary of his birth, will a pair of exhibitions turn the tide?
Lines of continuity – learning from Bridget Riley’s prints
An expanded catalogue raisonné of the artist’s prints sheds new light on her pioneering approach to colour and composition
Nature boy – how John Nash brought new life to British landscape painting
A new biography reasserts the significance of the self-described ‘artist plantsman’ among his modern British peers
The European armoury that inspired Henry Moore
It was on visits to the Wallace Collection that the sculptor first became fascinated with the form of the helmet
How Josef Albers created the modern art school as we know it
A new biography of the Bauhaus artist and teacher shows that his influence can still be felt today
John Rothenstein’s turbulent time at the Tate
The museum’s fifth director presided over a difficult period of its history, but left it in a better state than he found it
Modigliani’s powerfully modern portraits get the attention they deserve
The Tate’s blockbuster exhibition gives Modigliani’s reputation a welcome boost, prioritising his art over biography
The stuff of art: objects from Matisse’s studio
The objects in Matisse’s collection shaped his revolutionary aesthetic, and inspired him to push beyond the boundaries of the European tradition
How David Jones resisted the modern world
A new biography reveals an artist who, falling out of step with contemporary life, created an imaginative world of his own through art
Winifred Nicholson and the pleasures of colour
An exhibition on Winifred Nicholson shows why her painting had such an impact on the work of her peers
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