Reviews

A century after it was left to the city of Philadelphia, John G. Johnson’s art collection continues to surprise

Julian Rosefeldt’s new film looks again at the emotionally charged, political, performative texts that have shaped the course of culture

These erotic fantasies reveal how painfully separate the artist kept his private and public lives

This exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tries to register the gap between pre-war assumptions and the First World War’s brutal reality

The artist’s textile works reveal the versatility and power of a medium that has been widely overlooked

These responses to the tumultuous history of the Arab world contain a surprising amount of hope

The Korean painter sabotaged his promising career in 1981, but things seem to be looking up for him again

Two exhibitions at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich demonstrate the gulf between royal and popular culture in the build-up to and aftermath of the 1917 revolution

The new film ‘Loving Vincent’ has its mawkish moments, but its oil-painted imagery sets it apart

Soth’s photographs in ‘Sleeping by the Mississippi’ are beautiful and intriguing, but the stories behind them bring them to life

A new exhibition at the Bucerius Art Forum in Hamburg looks at how the market for art changed in 17th-century Holland

A monumental new study argues that ‘the patronage of the French Rothschild family is a European history of taste’

The four artists shortlisted for this year’s Lorck Schive Kunstpris all find ways of challenging local artistic traditions

Joseph Highmore’s morality tales are just as engaging as those of his contemporary William Hogarth

‘Soul of a Nation’ is the most significant contribution to debates around black art to date

James Hamilton’s biography of Thomas Gainsborough presents the painter as a lad about town