Reviews

John Crome was among the greatest English landscape painters of his day – but you’ve probably never heard of him

Nicola Suthor’s study of the self-confident style known as ‘bravura’ is something of a virtuoso affair

The British artist rejected modernism, but in life as in art she was hardly conservative

An Enlightenment project to classify all the colours in the natural world is an extraordinary feat of ingenuity

The dairy at Rambouillet was a masterpiece of neoclassical design

For more than a century, the Bibiena family created spectacular sets that delighted and deceived audiences

Typewriters may be museum pieces now, but they created office jobs for women and by doing so changed the 20th century

Peter Fischli has curated a show about the demise of painting – but his take is that it’s still very much alive

When the painter finally moved to the capital, he was quick to make the most of the opportunities on offer

Tom Eckersley’s posters are rightfully regarded as masterpieces – partly because he worked with clients who were also first-rate

A pair of monumental landscapes painted in his later years offer an unusually personal glimpse of the artist himself

The British artist looked to nature to provide material for her surreal creations

The founder of Lettrism wasn’t the only avant-garde artist with a god complex, but he may have been the most messianic

A whirlwind journey through 5,000 years of Iranian civilisation charts change and continuity in a culture that has absorbed all manner of influences

Is it enough for Western museums to say how they came by their colonial-era artefacts – or should they just give them back?

The painter had a keen eye for crockery – and the best pieces from his collection got to star in his art

These great tapestries have a turbulent history that has seen them held by Russia and in Canada – but now they’re back in the rooms where they first hung

Clive Bell is now best known as Vanessa’s husband – but a new biography replenishes his role in promoting modernism in Britain

Collectors, curators and artists have been debating the category of American folk art since the early 20th century – as a display at the MFA Boston makes clear

The ‘Rethinking Guernica’ website allows us to scrutinise Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece in greater detail than ever

2 Tone began as a ska-inspired record label, but swiftly became a look and a political stance – and a defining moment in British cultural history

Paul Greenhalgh’s ambitious survey takes us from the ancient Greeks to Picasso and beyond