Reviews
The deliberately difficult art of Pierre Dunoyer
A show in Paris reveals there may be more to the French artist’s paintings than meets the eye
Take a walk on the obscure side of 1980s New York
This curious film about the painter Edward Brezinski suggests that not all forgotten artists are candidates for rehabilitation
How Italy protected its art from the Nazis
An exhibition in Rome recounts the complicated tale of efforts to safeguard masterpieces across the country during the Second World War
Women artists make a radical mess at the Whitechapel Gallery
A crowded display sees some 150 works of Abstract Expressionism clamouring for attention, but perhaps this is the point
Sonia Boyce gets musical in Margate
The artist takes her Golden Lion-winning work celebrating the extraordinary achievements of Black women in music from Venice to the English seaside
The psychedelic ceramics of Redd Ekks
The Norwegian American’s trippy sculptures are cult classics in the making
Learning in style at the Bibliothèque nationale
The French national library’s exceptional collections now have the setting they deserve
An insider’s guide to 18th-century Ireland
Robert O’Byrne reads between the lines of the itemised contents of great Irish houses
Renaissance painting in its prime
David Young Kim’s ingenious study of grounds and figures takes the reader on an unfamiliar journey through familiar territory
Constructive criticism and mid-century modernism
Eero Saarinen’s marriage to the publicist Aline Louchheim tells us a lot about how the architect made his name
Edward Hopper’s fear of heights
The painter who defined the experience of modern New York never felt quite at home in the high-rise city
The heavenly bodies of Guido Reni
An exhibition at the Städel Museum shows that the baroque painter’s idealised figures are certainly an acquired taste
The art of showing things as they really are
Hyperrealist sculptors today, and still-life painters of the past, have all tried to trick their viewers into accepting fiction as truth
In Naples, Artemisia is still a very bankable star
The imposing architecture of the Palazzo del Banco di Napoli makes a fitting stage for the artist’s gruesome scenes of greed and retribution
Nan Goldin takes a stand – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, reviewed
Laura Poitras’s documentary about the photographer is an inspiring account of her blurring of the lines between life, art and activism
The French culture minister who fell out of love with the arts
In her score-settling memoir, Roselyn Bachelot calls out ungrateful artists and time-serving bureaucrats
The mixed messages of Meret Oppenheim
The artist’s mastery of unusual materials gave her a real edge over her peers
How to cut a statue down to size
Robert Bevan’s call to require a lot less from our public monuments has much to recommend it
The vanished collection of Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari’s famous collection of Renaissance drawings was dispersed after his death, and scholars have been trying track down its contents for centuries
National lampooner: James Gillray vs the British establishment
The artist’s excoriating images have long set the standard for political satire
Lucian Freud and the art of paying attention
No one could accuse the painter of flattering his subjects, but he was certainly painstaking about capturing them on canvas
Fiona Tan turns back time in Amsterdam
The artist rifles through archives and our collective imaginations to reshape what we think we know about the past
Plaster master – Maria Bartuszova at Tate Modern, reviewed
The Slovakian sculptor poured and moulded plaster into creations that evoke the body and the natural world in equal measure
Making a song and dance about musicals in the museum
A disappointingly static display at the V&A will make you long for the stage
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