The artist knew exactly how to cultivate her own image, ensuring her great success – both then and now
The week in art news: 24 April
Your favourite art magazine has been spotted in the vintage BBC comedy-drama – though always in the hands of dodgy antiques dealers
The museum makes the most of its French connections in this survey of conduct across medieval Europe and the Middle East
The novelist’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy suggestively fills in what art historians can only guess at
The discovery of the world’s oldest known piece of string shows that our Neanderthal cousins were craftier than is sometimes assumed
A new study emphasises the marriage of thought and feeling in the painter’s work
BBC Bitesize has announced that Danny Dyer and Sergio Agüero are among the celebrities joining its homeschooling programme. But who’s going to teach art?
Sequestered in a French chateau in the 1940s, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Jean Arp, Sonia Delaunay and Alberto Magnelli joined forces to create the ‘Album Grasse’
From Victorian spiritualists to contemporary practitioners, there is a long history of art – and drawing in particular – taking an interest in the unseen
An exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi positions the wildly ambitious artist as a Renaissance man for our times
Two art lawyers look at the simple steps businesses can take to protect themselves and their clients from online scams
The pleasure Picasso took in paper as a medium was palpable in the Royal Academy’s recent show
From lockdowns to mass burials, the ways we visualise Covid-19 were established by photographers in the late 19th century
This hard-to-classify book brings together Donald Judd, Japanese aesthetics, and the aspirations of contemporary lifestyle bloggers
From Nikolai Gogol to Susan Sontag, Joan Didion to Olga Tokarczuk: the authors inspiring artists during a time of lockdown
The director of programme at YSP outlines the unique challenges – and consolations – of shuttering the site
The artist’s designs for Elizabeth David’s cookery books evoke a happy world of fine living and dining
The artist’s fashion etchings hint at the delight in transient pleasures that is so evident in his paintings
The Met’s display of 14 centuries of work from the longtime artistic centre of Japan gives plenty of pause for thought
The critic’s guide to creative living is full of joy – but how far can you get by following someone else’s rules?
A transformative gift for Cleveland Museum of Art and some metal detectorists’ finds are among this month’s highlights
The 250th anniversary of the poet’s birth prompts a reflection on his complicated relationship with the visual arts
An interdisciplinary project at the Fitzwilliam Museum has revealed tantalising possibilities about Jacopo del Sellaio’s Cupid and Psyche
