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The art of long-distance communication
The art of long-distance communicationThe French invention of the telegraph in a fractured post-Revolutionary collapsed time and space, changing visual culture for ever
The British Royal Family’s love of bling
The Edwardians are associated with elegance but an exhibition at the King’s Gallery in London suggests that excess was the hallmark of the age
The Black artists who found themselves in post-war Paris
The Pompidou presents African, Caribbean and American artists who could be free in the French capital in ways often denied to them at home
Armchair travel in the Middle Ages
At the Morgan Library in New York, a selection of guides to foreign lands reveals a bustling Middle Ages full of fantastical visions
When a picture looks good enough to eat
This chronicle of iconophagy – the act of consuming an image – is an enlightening if occasionally stodgy read
How two artists have weathered one stormy marriage
The ups and downs in the lives of photographer Joel Meyerowitz and the writer and artist Maggie Barrett makes for documentary dynamite
Munch behind the mask
Self-portraits and depictions of family and friends build a picture of the ‘Scream’ artist as insider rather than outsider, more savvy than angsty
The drugged-up doodles of Henri Michaux
The artist’s mescaline trips in the 1950s and ’60s led to extraordinary acts of creativity, when he tried to pin down their effect on paper
The jazzy life of Gertrude Abercrombie
Once a central figure in Chicago’s mid-century art and jazz scene, this Surrealist painter was long forgotten – until now
The many faces of Medardo Rosso
The sculptor’s impressionistic works – and the photographs he took of them – always highlight the humanity of his subjects
Sebastiano del Piombo’s sound beginning
A new study of the 16th-century painter highlights his musical training and makes some bold claims about attribution
Swimming and style – a brief history
The Design Museum’s deep dive into swimming shows that people have always felt the urge to get into the water, for survival, sport or fun
Keita Morimoto turns Tokyo into a nocturnal no-man’s-land
In the painter’s night-time scenes, occasional isolated figures play second fiddle to the anonymous urban settings they inhabit
The singular vision of Svetlana Alpers
As a selection of her essays makes clear, the eminent art historian has always been committed to looking as a means of understanding
To infinity and beyond with Caspar David Friedrich
The high priest of German Romanticism is at his best when practising a minimalism that requires maximum imaginative effort from the viewer
Celia Paul faces the ghosts of her past
In recent portraits and seascapes the painter ponders time and memory, and the legacy of Lucian Freud and co.
‘Edging into the surreal’ – Alison Watt enters the world of John Soane
At Pitzhanger Manor, eerie paintings by the Scottish artist commune with its architect’s taste for pared-back eccentricity
The brave new world of Brazilian modernism
Artists were just as dedicated to the avant-garde as their peers in architecture and music, but were the results of their efforts as radical?
The shock of the boreal – ‘Northern Lights’ at the Fondation Beyeler, reviewed
Canadian and Scandinavian painters approached their respective landscapes in distinctive ways and with differing levels of realism
When attacks on art become art
While museums are desperate to stop climate actions involving works of art, a gallery in London has put defaced paintings front and centre, tomato soup and all
Wolfgang Buttress creates a buzz in Liverpool
The artist has been making installations about bees for years. His apian interests are now the subject of an exhibition at the World Museum
The Sienese painters who sparked a revolution in European art
The innovations of artists in the first half of the 14th century created new pathways for painting for centuries to come
Was Artemisia really bad with money?
A study of the baroque painter’s business practices finds faults with her financial acumen and artistic training – though not everyone will agree
Tech bros of Versailles – ‘Science and Splendour’ at the Science Museum, reviewed
Technology and ornament went hand in hand at the court of Louis XIV, and his successors expected the same from the scientific advances of their day
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