The British painting scene is a free-for-all these days – and that’s no bad thing
The Hayward’s survey of contemporary painting proves that the medium is thriving – with the figurative artists perhaps edging that little bit ahead
Programme notes – Museums in Quarantine on BBC4, reviewed
Alistair Sooke and Simon Schama take on tour-guide duties in a series of new 30-minute films. But how satisfying can the Tate on the telly really be?
A visual journey through the Amazon rainforest
Displaced from his home in the Colombian Amazon, Abel Rodríguez draws on his memories to document its flora and fauna
How Rembrandt made great strides in his home town
Child prodigy he was not – but works from the painter’s youth in Leiden show that he soon made up for lost time
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
In his element – J.M.W. Turner in Lucerne
The British artist returned time and again to the Swiss city, recording majestic Alpine landscapes that still take travellers’ breath away
How four months in Martinique helped Gauguin make his name
The artist saw himself as an exotic outsider, and his voyage to the Caribbean in 1887 as a transformative experience
How Mary Cassatt created a school of her own
The American Impressionist’s singular body of work is as hard to classify as ever
Reconstructing Monet’s private collection
Monet’s hidden art collection goes public in an ambitious exhibition at the Musée Marmottan
The Danish collector with a passion for French painting
Wilhelm Hansen amassed his impressive collection, now showing at the Musée Jacquemart-André, in only two years
Paper plants and wax peaches at the Manchester Museum
The scientific teaching models in George Loudon’s collection are as beautiful as they are fascinating
Pissarro was the unifying force behind Impressionism
This overdue survey gives some sense of Pissarro’s extraordinary range
Théodore Rousseau’s winning formula? ‘Diabolical cunning’ and lashings of sauce
‘A method matters little,’ Rousseau maintained, ‘one tries everything’. See the full span of his dizzyingly diverse practice in Copenhagen this winter
‘I buy! I buy! I can’t stop myself’: Artists as collectors at the National Gallery
Artist collectors, it emerges, are driven by a mix of motives from compulsion to emulation
When did the Sublime become an extended environmental guilt-trip?
The word has become a catchall term for environmentally-conscious art. It’s more specific than that
Rodin moves back to Paris
The sculptor would have approved of the Musée Rodin’s sensitive refurbishment
Giacometti: Rebel artist and lifelong mother’s boy
‘It is impossible to paint a portrait’, claimed Giacometti, but that didn’t stop him trying whenever he went home to his family
Damien Hirst seeks redemption
The bad boy of Britart opens his new gallery with a show devoted to abstract painter John Hoyland. Is he trying to atone for his artistic sins?
Jeremy Corbyn: Hopeless case or saviour of the arts?
The MP for North Islington is that rare thing at Westminster, a politician who is actually interested in the arts
Verbal Assault: ‘All The World’s Futures’ Reviewed
A joyless preference for the verbal over the visual at the Venice Biennale
Letter from the Fondation Custodia, Paris
The Fondation Custodia in Paris steps into the spotlight
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