The Palazzo Strozzi makes the most of the tensions that fuelled the cinquecento’s creative energy
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
Among the treasures of St Cuthbert in Durham are several of the most remarkable medieval objects to be seen anywhere
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's rare and inventive portraits are on display in New York after a major research and conservation project
Artists throughout the ages have painted in black and white or monochrome. What is the appeal of art without colour?
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
Artist Andy Holden has collaborated with his father, the ornithologist Peter Holden, on an Artangel project exploring our fascination with 'home'
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
MoMA's 'greatest hits' are superb, of course – but are they a little too familiar?
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
To devote an entire show and a book exclusively to artists’ images of death – and nothing else – seems profoundly odd
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'
Tate St Ives reopens to the public this autumn following the completion of a major expansion
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
