What Renoir saw by the sea in Guernsey
Nearly a century and a half after the painter’s trip to the Channel Islands, his paintings of Guernsey can now be compared to the actual views
Berthe Morisot, always in the moment
The painter went to great lengths to make her careful compositions look effortlessly spontaneous
The comic strip genius of Charles M. Schulz
The man who invented Snoopy and the Peanuts gang revolutionised cartoons – both aesthetically and emotionally
Strange splendours at Ranger’s House
The diamond magnate and collector Julius Wernher was drawn to what he described as the ‘splendidly ugly’
Fed up of the Fringe? Then escape to a museum
Edinburgh’s museums and galleries provide respite from the onslaught of the Fringe
Scared of the modern?
The British realists of the 1920s and ’30s scrupulously recorded the modern era – but in doing so, they were also avoiding it
William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland peel back the layers of history
The two artists make a rewarding double act at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery
The cultural and corporate icon that is Monarch of the Glen
Drinks company Diageo planned to sell the painting, but after public outcry it now seems likely to remain in Scotland after all
How Daubigny inspired Impressionism
A modest exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery makes clear the big impact Daubigny had on modern art
Scottish artists who turned to the dark side
A survey of postwar Scottish art reacting against the forces of reason includes wonderful pieces, but explains its own meaning a little too neatly
Visionary palaces in a gallery’s empty basement
Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s palace designs came to ‘nothing more than a beautiful dream’ – and, thankfully, a fascinating set of prints
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