A new biography of the British painter has a fine sense of his precocious talent – and real feeling for his rakish charm
A temporary display of the museum's collection telescopes time and space to group objects thematically – but is this a productive path to follow?
This wide-ranging book explores how women artists used self-portraiture to establish themselves in a man’s world
The first survey show dedicated to the ‘Queen of Bohemia’ presents a flamboyant figure who was single-minded about her art
Emily Mortimer’s TV adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel is a wonderfully glamorous affair – and its anachronisms are whip-smart
In her portraits of imaginary people, the artist conjures a world that feels joyfully real
The Amazon series limps through its art history but is just about salvaged by its endearingly goofy hero
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
The Gardner Museum heist hasn’t been solved in 30 years – and it’s perfect fodder for a true crime documentary
As a new documentary reveals, the Scottish painter braved wind, rain and Arctic ice in search of his 'rough truth'
Francis Lee’s film plays fast and loose with Mary Anning’s life – but at least it digs the great geologist out of historical obscurity
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
The knavery and folly of the rarefied art world are writ large in a documentary that picks over the Knoedler forgery scandal
Photographers and film-makers have long added colour to their images – but does the current craze for colourisation create a false impression of olden times?
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
