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Paula Modersohn-Becker’s quest to become her own person
The German painter died tragically young, but in the course of her short life she became the artist she always wanted to be
Emmanuel Macron pleads for Emily to stay in Paris
The French president’s wife tests her dramatic chops in the latest season of Emily in Paris, even though the show is now flirting with Rome – and her husband couldn’t be happier
The warped aesthetics of Lynn Chadwick
The sculptor’s witty animal-like sculptures are dotted around the grounds of his house in the Cotswolds – and they feel right at home there
Four things to see: Imagination
These four artworks show how the imagination – the incubator of all human creativity – can be drawn on to conjure entirely new worlds
What real American women have worn at home, at work and in wartime
The New-York Historical Society weaves together personal and social histories by assembling all manner of garments, from workwear to rebelwear
How printmaking made a lasting impression
Printing is found throughout art history – and often in the places you least expect it, as Jennifer L. Roberts demonstrates in her highly original new book
The tangled history of the London Tube map
A play about Harry Beck, creator of London Underground map we still use today, shows just how tricky it was to land on the perfect design
Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Arte Povera masterpiece is a case of rags and endless riches
Curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev explains how the artist’s Venus of the Rags embodies the innovative spirit of the Italian movement
An eye-opening look at Girl with a Pearl Earring
A new study breaks down viewers’ reactions to Vermeer’s most famous work – a welcome reminder that artists have long had stratagems for seducing the eye
Plans revived for Centre Pompidou satellite in New Jersey
Plus: climate activists acquitted in Manchester, Hammer Museum appoints Zoë Ryan as its new director, and researchers find 7th-century throne room in Peru
Four things to see: Women poets
To mark 50 years since the death of the poet Anne Sexton, we look at four artworks that demonstrate how women poets have long been a source of inspiration for artists
Where are all the young collectors?
The art world is changing fast, but fostering a new generation of young collectors remains a challenge for the market to overcome
Baroque painting from Naples still provides plenty of thrills
Amid a narrowing market for Old Masters, paintings from 17th-century Naples are still holding their own
The Warburg Institute makes its mysteries more public
The learned institution has always been important to art historians, but a major new refurbishment will give it a higher profile
When the Cold War gave Scotland the chills
An exhibition of photographs, posters and protest objects shows the absurd side of the Cold War as well as the terror
The dangerous beauty of Waterhouse’s nymphs
Sarah Moss returns to a Pre-Raphaelite painting that made a lasting impression on her when she was a teenager
Is Labour’s arts policy a case of warm words, no cold hard cash?
The UK culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, spoke of the importance of the arts at Labour Party Conference, but the sector needs more than good vibes
Italian art is the star of the show in Florence this month
Modern Italian artists rub shoulders with Old Masters including Titian and Bronzino at the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato in Florence (BIAF)
Four things to see: Tourism
On World Tourism Day, it seems a perfect time to revisit the ways in which artists have depicted global travel over the last two centuries
How Van Gogh invented the art of the future
The National Gallery has pulled off a seemingly impossible feat – to allow us to experience the intensity of the artist’s vision as if for the first time
Scotland the brave – an interview with the director of Studio Voltaire
As the cutting-edge arts organisation in south London turns 30, Joe Scotland talks to Apollo about class, community and contemporary art
This year, the Turner Prize gets personal
The four nominees for the prize in its 40th year all fold forms of biography into their art – with mixed success
Top drawers – a brief history of sketching through the ages
Spanning several continents and 13,000 years of graphic art, Susan Owens’s new book outlines the many reasons why artists have always been drawn to drawing
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From penitent saint to salacious sinner, the biblical figure has worn a number of different guises in art through the ages