Jennifer Packer’s paintings pack a punch at the Serpentine
The artist’s powerful canvases are full of detail but never shy away from the bigger picture
New ways of seeing Andy Warhol
As an exhibition at the Whitney proves, there’s far more to the Pop art superstar than Marilyn and soup cans
How Monet’s water lilies took root across the pond
The French painter’s late style influenced a generation of American Abstract Expressionists
Remembering Irving Sandler, the ‘sweeper-up after artists’
The critic, who has died at the age of 92, will be remembered as someone who wanted to be in the thick of it
How Jane Freilicher found beauty in the everyday
Freilicher’s paintings are full of flowers, self-portraits and interiors – and manage to be traditional and radical at the same time
The making of modern America
Masterpieces of American modernism cross the pond for the very first time
The art of advertising
A museum retrospective charts James Rosenquist’s journey from billboard painter to Pop art pioneer
The battle for Picasso’s mind
An exhibition in Berlin explores how both sides in the Cold War tried to turn artists into ideological weapons
The rich repetitions of Jasper Johns
The Royal Academy’s Jasper Johns show captures the complexities of his deceptively simple art
John Ashbery: poet and artist
He’ll be remembered as a wordsmith, but Ashbery was also a brilliant art critic, collector, and artist with a gift for seeing
The many faces of Mary Magdalene