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What photographs can and can’t tell us about buildings
Since the invention of the medium, photography has always had an ambiguous relationship with architecture
Think pink with Madame Pompadour!
An extremely close look at François Boucher’s portrait of the marquise in the Fogg Museum at Harvard homes in on the painter’s use of his signature colour
A static portrait of a static world – ‘Bloodlines’ by Amie Siegel, reviewed
The artist’s latest film shows how the past permeates the present in a series of sumptuous scenes – but is it saying anything new?
Take a trip to the new new Jerusalem
Stephen Ellcock and Mat Osman try to bring visions of Albion up to date in their book ‘England on Fire’
The photographers who have got up close and very personal
Many artists have recorded their most intimate moments, but why should anyone else be interested in the results?
Ground force – the artists who set out to surpass nature
An ambitious exhibition at the Beaux-Arts de Paris considers the mutual rivalry between art and science over the centuries
Shining matters – ‘Gold’ at the British Library, reviewed
A glittering array of objects and manuscripts from around the world shows off the astonishing diversity of the permanent collection
Chains of command – ‘The Sun King at Sea’, reviewed
A groundbreaking study looks at the slave labour on which France’s maritime ambitions depended
The photographer who created Cairo in his own image
Van Leo’s portraits capture a lost world and are in a class of their own, writes Raphael Cormack
Seeing modern Madagascar through the eyes of its greatest photographer
Ramily was a pioneer who captured the newly independent country as it wanted to be seen
Pulling faces – the art of showing emotion
An exhibition at the Musée Marmottan Monet considers how artists have tried to represent feeling through the centuries
The Italian painter who expressed himself in America
For all his care to balance the traditions of his Venetian forebears with the style of his US contemporaries, Afro Basaldella came to be seen as an Abstract Expressionist
The photographer who hated office life
Chauncey Hare was compared to Walker Evans and Diane Arbus, but he came to find the art world as repressive as the corporate world he loathed
James Morrison’s paintings take us on a journey into the unknown
The artist refused to paint people, preferring instead to focus on remote landscapes and natural phenomena
The pared-down poses of Aristide Maillol
The Musée d’Orsay’s survey of the French sculptor is admirably thorough, but his art was more modern than we’re often led to believe
Theaster Gates’ big idea – the Serpentine Pavilion, reviewed
The American artist’s ‘Black Chapel’ is an imposing addition to the manicured lawns of Kensington Gardens but is it where you’ll find perfection?
Why did European nobles go all gooey for waxworks?
They’re now little more than popular amusements – but with their discomfiting realism, wax effigies were once considered fit for royalty
How do women really wield power?
In attempting to give an account of ‘feminine power’ through the ages, the British Museum raises far more questions than it answers
The Design Museum proves that football really is the beautiful game
The subject of football and all its attendant paraphernalia makes for a surprisingly joyful exhibition
‘Littered with stumbling blocks’ – Cornelia Parker at Tate Britain, reviewed
The British artist’s retrospective might appear visually weighty, but the work pays little attention to the history and politics of the materials used
Speed freak – ‘Raphael’ at the National Gallery, reviewed
The artist’s true genius lay in the superhuman pace with which he mastered new styles
Survivors’ gilt – the luxury craftsmen who flourished after the French Revolution
Iris Moon’s account of how masters of the decorative arts adapted to turbulent times is a suitably unsettling affair
The British photographers who took their visual cues from the Grand Tour
Victorian photographers in Italy were inevitably influenced by forms of landscape painting made popular in the preceding century
Eternal fame – the world of the Kushite pharaohs
The Louvre’s latest exhibition has revived the vast ancient empire that once united Sudan and Egypt
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