Reviews

The Breuer Building makes a minimalist foil for the Frick’s permanent collection – but Eve M. Kahn is rather glad the move is only temporary

In his heyday John Hassall was known as ‘the Poster King’ and his eyecatching ads could be seen on hoardings all over Britain

Post-war museum design had a political impetus that was public-spirited in nature – even if that meant displaying sculptures on a bed of coal

Portraits were used to further friendships – and as networking opportunities – in Enlightenment France

Two new books offer complementary perspectives – the macro and the micro – on the modern museum

An exhibition examining Black experience in America is powerful if piecemeal – and is necessarily exhausting

Ralph Beyer’s idiosyncratic letter-cutting isn’t to everyone’s taste but there’s no denying its power

Paintings from the north-west Indian city of Udaipur present life at court as a royal playground

With human contact all but banned, an exhibition about touch was always going to provoke mixed feelings

A new graphic novel offers a fresh take on the museum heist genre – if you can bear its regressive sexual politics, that is

A display of interwar posters is a reminder of that utopian moment when artists believed they could invent a new world

European paintings still occupy prime real estate on Fifth Avenue – but a redisplay offers fresh insight into the Met’s hallowed holdings

For millennia, marble was taken to be a gleaming reflection of the heavens – and, in Fabio Barry’s new book, it regains its divine mysteries

An ambitious new book scrutinises the production of ‘white gold’ in Europe – from its early alchemical mysteries to your everyday crockery

Warburg brought together Greek gods and golfers, antiquities and airships – and in reconstruction, his puzzling arrangements of images are as suggestive as ever

A new biography of Goya puts paid to the romantic fiction that the Spanish master ended his days isolated and insane

The Torlonia marbles make for the greatest private collection of Roman antiquities in existence – and they’re finally on view to the public

Federico Zuccari’s illustrations of the Divine Comedy have seldom been shown. But the Uffizi has put them online – and Dante’s poem has never looked better