• An interview with Yinka Shonibare
• Monsters in modern art
• Wordsworth among the artists
• Has LACMA lost its way?
Plus: cinema in the museum, art nouveau in Nancy, zingers at the Zwinger, and the paintings of Beauford Delaney
Liliane Lijn | Picasso | Mughal painting | Impressionism
Jan Švankmajer | Pompeii | Cat ladies
Museum of West African Art | Jeremy Frey | Ed Ruscha
Napoleon Bonaparte | Caspar David Friedrich | the Impressionists
When it comes to conjuring the uncanny atmosphere and impossible logic of dreams, the Czech film-maker has few equals
It suits us to think of the movement as unpopular, but the passing of time makes it harder to see why the first Impressionist Exhibition of 1874 made such a stir
Berthe Weill was as devoted to young artists as she was to the cause of modern art – and her efforts are now receiving belated recognition
The museum’s head of framing, Peter Schade, is quietly changing how we see some of the world’s most famous pictures