Balthus’ strange, dream-like paintings deliberately set out to unsettle viewers
We know what translation can do – but what does it look like? Eight centuries of multilingual activity is on show in Oxford
The artist’s installations seem completely at home in the HangarBicocca
The film tries to imagine what being the painter was like – the results are as stressful, and appealing, as you might expect
Celebrated abroad, but little known at home, Caspar van Wittel more or less singlehandedly invented view painting
Goss experiments with traditional painting techniques to depict scenes of everyday life with a dreamlike twist
A catalogue of the National Gallery’s 18th-century French paintings points to past peculiarities of British taste
The Iranian-born sculptor gets his first retrospective in his adopted home country of America
The photographer’s formally composed, sometimes graphic work is still hard to pin down
The photographer’s survey of the British at home and abroad takes on a suitably surreal air at the National Portrait Gallery
After flirting with Fauvism and other French modes in Paris, the painter brought home a dazzling palette – only to bottle it later on
The Swiss spiritualist used drawings to diagnose patients, but her works are now regarded as art
Science, art and natural history are intertwined in the Lister family’s monumental Historiae Conchyliorum
In his unsparing portraits, Freud pursued his mission to describe things exactly as they are
When Prévost painted his panorama from the tower of St Margaret’s Church, he captured a city on the cusp of change
It was on visits to the Wallace Collection that the sculptor first became fascinated with the form of the helmet
The more you look, the more mysterious the bright landscapes and paintings of his wife in the bath seem
The Italian artist was a breathtakingly gifted ceramicist who flirted with too many other mediums
Hockney has followed the Dutch painter’s lead in his intensely coloured responses to the call of the wild
The rediscovery of classical art in Europe transformed depictions of the naked body
Louis-Léopold Boilly was a peculiarly adaptable painter in turbulent times
How Italian painters and sculptors made clothing conceal and reveal the human form
After losing his sight, the British painter drew on touch, memory and imagination to continue his work
What are the key ingredients for success, and what role do Western traditions play, in emerging art scenes and markets?
