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Forty years on – the Site Gallery celebrates a significant birthday
The Sheffield gallery’s show of works by Susan Hiller, Georgina Starr and Elizabeth Price takes a reflective turn
Pontormo pays a visit to the Getty
The Florentine painter’s Visitation is at the centre of this small but spellbinding display
Painstakingly perfect and utterly peculiar – the drawings of Jean-Jacques Lequeu
The French draughtsman’s fantasies seem as bizarre today as they did 200 years ago
Julie Mehretu makes her mark at Kettle’s Yard
A series of pared-back monotypes and drawings signals a new phase in the artist’s work
Meet the mummies – cultural ambassadors from beyond the grave
There’s more to these sets of human remains than bandages, amulets and curses
In his shiny surfaces, Jeff Koons reflects the vanity of our age
From ancient art to Old Masters, Koons’ engagement with history is only skin deep – and that’s the point
The art and craft of American pottery
American art ceramics haven’t received as much attention as they deserve, but a major gift to the Met is changing this
The Assyrian king who kept on killing lions
There were many ways to ward off danger in ancient Assyria – and some of them were carved into stone
Art to die for? – Velvet Buzzsaw reviewed
Demonic forces make their presence felt in this horror film set in the art world
How Josef Albers created the modern art school as we know it
A new biography of the Bauhaus artist and teacher shows that his influence can still be felt today
Paris, poets and a poodle – Beatrice Gibson at Camden Arts Centre, reviewed
Two new films pay tribute to avant-garde cultural figures, from Gertrude Stein to Pauline Oliveros
Christina Rossetti among the Pre-Raphaelites
The Brotherhood loomed large in the poet’s life, but she was careful to carve out her own creative space
Pairing Michelangelo with Bill Viola does one of the artists no favours
The Royal Academy offers a rare chance to see some of Michelangelo’s best drawings, but Viola’s videos are something of a distraction
Jewels that dazzle across time and space
From pre-Colombian ornaments to a McQueen bodysuit, the Met’s jewellery collection is a sight to behold
The mysterious masterpieces of Lorenzo Lotto
The Venetian painter was overshadowed by Titian in his day, but his subtle portraits have a very modern appeal
The groundbreaking squiggles of Saul Steinberg
Le Corbusier once told the Romanian-American cartoonist that he drew ‘like a king’
The unsettling domesticity of Jean Cooke
The claustrophobia in this British painter’s work hints at a talent stifled by her better-known artist husband
Did Italian art ever really take a Romantic turn?
Italian artists have been neglected in histories of the pan-European movement
The most beautiful boy in the Roman empire
Antinous, favourite of the emperor Hadrian, was commemorated all over the Roman world. He is a more troubling figure today
‘Joan Mitchell is the real star here’
Pairing the Abstract Expressionist’s work with that of her longtime partner Jean-Paul Riopelle makes it clear she was the greater artist
The freedom Gainsborough found in painting his family
The artist’s portraits of his household are more spontaneous than his commercial work
Poetry and pessimism at the 12th Shanghai Biennale
Grand narratives of progress are undermined in a surprisingly understated edition of the Chinese biennial
The modern painters who were mad about Frans Hals
Van Gogh, Whistler, Sargent and Manet were just some of the major artists who made pilgrimages to Haarlem to see Hals’s work
Close encounters with the gods in court paintings from north India
Painters at the Pahari courts found new ways to represent the Hindu gods in the 17th and 18th centuries
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