Moby-Dick is a novel suspicious of visual representation – but one that has inspired scores of illustrators and painters
This welcome survey of Canadian artists shows how the quintessentially Parisian style was imported and reimagined
The Tate explores how the painter’s eyes were opened to new influences during his time in the city
With the man-made world a strong presence in his Nocturnes, beach scenes and gardens, Whistler was no pure nature boy
André Breton once described the pair as the ‘best and most truly Surrealist’ of British artists
A table owned by the author has been export stopped in the UK – a situation that Dickens himself would have relished
A new exhibition suggests that Redon’s pictures owe as much to literature and music as they do to the visual arts
Jenny Uglow’s biography brings the writer and artist’s love of contradictions to the fore
With its abstract qualities and unsettling symbolic significance, dust emerged as a key theme in 20th-century photography
Context is as crucial to this exhibition as the art itself. Tate strikes a tricky balance between the two
