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The ‘living lines’ of Paule Vézelay
She was well known in the surrealist circles of the 20th century, but Vézelay’s work has been all but forgotten since
How the Japanese transformed French painting
An exhibition of Les Nabis at the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo explores their interest in the art of the Far East
Michelangelo and Sebastiano’s fraught but fertile friendship
An ambitious exhibition at the National Gallery traces the productive overlaps between these two Renaissance masters
More can be less when it comes to Eduardo Paolozzi
Paolozzi’s 1950s work is astonishing, but a full retrospective draws too much attention to his duller later work
What the Minotaur can tell us about Picasso
An exhibition documenting Picasso’s obsession with minotaurs and matadors is a curatorial triumph
Religion in the Renaissance was as personal as it was public
An exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum reveals how the home in Renaissance Italy was the site of much private devotion
Monuments to mundanity at the Socle du Monde Biennale
This event is a must-see if you want your understanding of Piero Manzoni and the other featured artists turned on its head
The patronage of remarkable princesses
Some royal tastemakers have better taste than others – as the remarkable legacy of three Hanoverian princesses shows
Kerry James Marshall’s celebration of black bodies
The American artist reminds viewers that black subjects are seldom encountered in the museum
Remaking history in New York
New galleries mean a fresh start for the New-York Historical Society Museum and Library
Stanley Spencer’s endless autobiography
The painter’s reams of autobiographical writing are as idiosyncratic as his art
Roger Mayne, the ‘Laureate of Teenage London’
The Photographers’ Gallery hosts the first major London exhibition of Roger Mayne’s work since 1999
Pissarro was the unifying force behind Impressionism
This overdue survey gives some sense of Pissarro’s extraordinary range
Maeve Brennan’s quiet filmmaking speaks volumes about conflict and culture
The artist’s meditative new film reveals how, in the midst of cyclical violence, objects and humans continue to drift
The Tate was right to look again at queer British art
Context is as crucial to this exhibition as the art itself. Tate strikes a tricky balance between the two
A Bruegel family reunion in Bath
The Holburne Museum reminds us that this entire family is worth celebrating – not just Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Whitney Biennial in counterpoint
Dana Schutz’s controversial painting of Emmett Till has dominated the headlines, at the expense of other interesting contributions
It’s about time Vanessa Bell was judged on her own merits
It’s hard to separate Vanessa Bell from Bloomsbury, but this exhibition of her art is long overdue
Shadows beneath the surface of the sea
On the southern coast of France, a new exhibition is exploring our troubled relationship with the world’s oceans
The paintings that captured a desperate decade
How the American artists of the 1930s depicted a country that was on its knees
Contemporary British ceramics in a country barn
This is no country jumble of brown pots. The latest show at Messum’s Wiltshire is a reminder of a great, evolving national tradition
A show of pacifism at the Imperial War Museum
‘People Power: Fighting for Peace’ at the IWM London is a bold exhibition that uses individual stories to humanise major global issues
Hogarth’s paintings fail to go the whole hog
William Hogarth’s paintings are nowhere near as ‘Hogarthian’ as his scathing, scurrilous prints
The peculiar prints of a singular Dutch artist
Hercules Segers combined printmaking and painting to create works that are in a category of their own
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