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Mobs, murder and manuscripts – why ‘Pentiment’ is a must-play for art historians
In Obsidian’s new video game, you are a 16th-century Bavarian painter – but progress on your masterpiece is interrupted by parochial violence
The really radical work of Nellie Mae Rowe
Having spent most her life serving others, Nellie Mae Rowe came to art in her retirement years and found a joyful defiance in the creation of other-worldly scenes
How Roger Hilton played fast and loose with the human form
The St Ives painter best known for his abstract works also created his own kind of figurative art
The fetishistic side of Henry Fuseli
The artist’s drawings of women are a testament to his private proclivities. It’s no wonder he never put them on public display
On point – the wearing of lace has always been tied up with social status
Lace-making is an exacting craft – and who gets to wear the results is an equally delicate matter
The uncanny resonance of Hannah Starkey’s portraits
The photographer refers to all the women she photographs as icons, but it is in her home town of Belfast where her subjects truly come alive
The Vorticist who was nearly painted out of history
Helen Saunders was briefly at the forefront of British modernism – before she was cancelled by Wyndham Lewis
The Lithuanian painter who thought art could move heaven and earth
A survey of paintings by M.K. Čiurlionis at the Dulwich makes plain why the artist is heralded in his home country as a visionary
Committed to memory – how the Empress Eugénie kept the spirit of the Second Empire alive
Exiled in England, Napoleon III’s widow made sure that for as long she lived there was a corner of Hampshire that was forever France
Wolfgang Tillmans has the time of his life at MoMA
The photographer’s seething retrospective at MoMA captures what it was like to be young and carefree after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Lorenzo Lotto finds a winning streak
Long undervalued in comparison to his peers, the Renaissance painter now has the critical esteem he deserves in the form of a fine catalogue
The forgotten British modernist who hid her paintings under a bed
A new book does justice to the life and work of the little-known artist Suzanne Cooper
The instant appeal of William Kentridge’s slow art
A journey through four decades of the South African artist’s works reveals the steady evolution of his talent
The Turner Prize plays it safe this year
The four nominees for this year’s prize are presenting their biggest, brightest work but not all of it is saying very much
Wilton House may be famous for its sculpture, but its paintings are just as worthwhile
The paintings acquired by the earls of Pembroke over several generations now have the catalogue they deserve
How to be queer in the Arab world
Artists from across North Africa and the Middle East are expressing themselves in a sprawling show at the Institut du Monde Arabe
At Nottingham Contemporary, caves really are the rocks of ages
A show about caves and the artists who have been inspired by them goes deep underground and incredibly far back in time
Unmasked emotion – the photographer who saw beneath the surface
Working across photojournalism, fashion photography and portraiture, Sabine Weiss captured her subjects with curiosity and emotion
Marina Abramovic goes missing in Oxford
The performance artist is absent from her latest show, instead getting visitors to do the work through wellness-style meditations. Is it worth the effort?
What can we learn from looking at doubles?
An exhibition examining ‘doubles’ in modern art at National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. ends up a little out of focus
What separates archaeologists from treasure-hunters?
Maria Golia’s history of tomb-raiding in ancient Egypt makes for an entertaining read but there are graver matters to consider
The extraordinary life of Ibrahim El-Salahi
In his memoir, the artist reflects on how his life and approach to making art have been shaped by the events in his home country of Sudan
How Van Dyck made his mark on English portraiture
It’s no secret that Van Dyck inspired generations of artists, but a new book paints a more nuanced picture of the painter’s reception
The English oddballs who cultivated their very own gardens of Eden
In ‘English Garden Eccentrics’, Todd Longstaffe-Gowan introduces us to a gallery of historical horticulturists, all determined to create their own private paradises
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