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Danish Golden Age: World Class Art between Disasters
How the Romantic movement spurred on a period of artistic flourishing in Denmark
Mick Jagger heads up an art heist
The Rolling Stones frontman is returning to cinema screens as a crooked collector – and he has the art-world credentials for the role
Bart Simpson in the museum
The Simpsons has often embraced the visual arts – and now a museum in Washington State is repaying the favour
Face masks – the enigmatic art of Helene Schjerfbeck
The first UK show dedicated to the Finnish painter reveals an artist fascinated with questions of image and identity
A pan-African event keeps its sights set on local scenes
A year-long travelling exhibition celebrates the continent’s leading artists
Last Supper in Pompeii
An immersive look at the ancient Romans’ relationship to dining and agriculture
From Dickens to Dada – a marvellous mishmash of collage across time
The first show ever to focus on the art of cutting and pasting offers an impressively expansive view of the practice
Lino sheets and London streets – the pioneers of modern British printmaking
For a brief period between the wars, the Grosvenor School in Pimlico was the site of a printmaking revolution
Selfie shtick – the many faces of Maria Lassnig
The Austrian painter dedicated her career to translating bodily sensations into visual form – often through self-portraits
Pelicans, fossils and fingered lemons – recreating the paper museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo
An exhibition of drawings from the 17th-century collection makes the case for a visual approach to learning – whether in science, history or art
‘Over the years you get closer to those things you call impossible’ – an interview with Tal R
The Danish artist talks about his new exhibition at Hastings Contemporary, and the obsessions behind his paintings
Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography
Marking the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing with an exhibition of lunar photographs
‘I’m trying to erase myself’ – an interview with Cindy Sherman
The artist has been taking photographs of herself for more than 40 years – but we mustn’t think of the results as self-portraits
Who’s going to shell out for this monumental crab?
‘Truly grotesque’ it may be, but the export bar placed on this characterful Victorian ceramic reflects its importance as a work of art
Spain’s annual photography festival, in focus
From Franco-era crimes to the Anthropocene, images at PhotoEspaña 2019 tackle some powerful subjects
What not to miss at London Art Week
Highlights of this year’s event include a long-lost tapestry commissioned by Charles I and dozens of drawings by Adolph von Menzel
An itinerant Iberian master – Bartolomé Bermejo at the National Gallery, reviewed
A small but dazzling display offers viewers in the UK a rare glimpse of a painter who fused Spanish and Flemish influences
The best of Masterpiece 2019
A Romano-British mosaic, a rococo coffee pot, and Robert Rauschenberg are among the highlights of this year’s fair
From infant prodigy to infatuated old man – the many guises of Merlin
The mythical figure has taken many forms over the centuries, some more dignified than others
Putting Renaissance paintings in their place
A new study of framing devices is illuminating, but devotes surprisingly little space to actual picture frames
‘The Hittites lived in interesting times’ – art after the end of civilisation
A show at the Louvre explores the rise, fall and what remains of the ancient Hittite empire
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‘It was in London that he belonged’ – remembering Leon Kossoff
A tribute to the great painter of London’s urban landscapes, who has died at the age of 92