Lynda Nead is professor of history of art at Birkbeck, University of London.
In a show at Piano Nobile, the artist and his circle vie for our attention with the women who made their art possible
The question of what makes a performer truly divine is at the heart of a rigorously researched exhibition at the V&A
Tanya Harrod’s biography of the unfairly neglected painter champions his scenes of London working-class life
Annebella Pollen’s history of nudism in 20th-century Britain takes the movement as seriously as it took itself
Sensationalist displays are no way to explore art and prostitution, writes Lynda Nead – and the Musée d'Orsay has got carried away with selling sex
