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National lampooner: James Gillray vs the British establishment
The artist’s excoriating images have long set the standard for political satire
Lucian Freud and the art of paying attention
No one could accuse the painter of flattering his subjects, but he was certainly painstaking about capturing them on canvas
Fiona Tan turns back time in Amsterdam
The artist rifles through archives and our collective imaginations to reshape what we think we know about the past
Plaster master – Maria Bartuszova at Tate Modern, reviewed
The Slovakian sculptor poured and moulded plaster into creations that evoke the body and the natural world in equal measure
Making a song and dance about musicals in the museum
A disappointingly static display at the V&A will make you long for the stage
The Renaissance painters who turned to stone
It was Sebastiano del Piombo who rediscovered the ancient art of painting on stone and inspired others to make the most of their material
Scary storeys – ‘Horror in the Modernist Block’, reviewed
Contemporary artists explore the fearful side of modernist architecture at Ikon, but a real sense of menace may be missing
Ways of seeing at the Wellcome Collection
The eye may be our most perceptive organ, but it can sometimes make us blind to the other senses
What the Victorians liked to hang on their walls
Thanks to mass production (and reproduction), in the 19th-century some middle-class homes began to resemble miniature picture galleries
The American who conquered cafe society in Rome
For seven decades, Milton Gendel recorded his charmed existence in delightfully candid photos and diaries
The triumph of the Tudors
Other European dynasties of the period had equally thriving court cultures, but none has had such a hold on the popular imagination
The unfashionable art of Ruskin Spear
Tanya Harrod’s biography of the unfairly neglected painter champions his scenes of London working-class life
The soft resistance of Magdalena Abakanowicz’s woven sculptures
The Polish artist sometimes worked at a monumental scale, but her most impressive works are less about the size than the power of their expression
Mimic men – how artists have spurred each other to new heights
An illuminating exhibition in Vienna explores how artists from the Greeks on have revelled in rivalries
The film-maker exploring Nigeria’s hangover from colonial rule
Ayo Akingbade’s new short film, set in the first Guinness factory to be built outside of the UK and Ireland, reveals a troubling story of labour and power
The British painter who was bullied into obscurity
Denis Wirth-Miller was unfairly dismissed as an imitator of his friend Francis Bacon, but it’s now clear that his detractors were wholly in the wrong
Mobs, murder and manuscripts – why ‘Pentiment’ is a must-play for art historians
In Obsidian’s new video game, you are a 16th-century Bavarian painter – but progress on your masterpiece is interrupted by parochial violence
The really radical work of Nellie Mae Rowe
Having spent most her life serving others, Nellie Mae Rowe came to art in her retirement years and found a joyful defiance in the creation of other-worldly scenes
How Roger Hilton played fast and loose with the human form
The St Ives painter best known for his abstract works also created his own kind of figurative art
The fetishistic side of Henry Fuseli
The artist’s drawings of women are a testament to his private proclivities. It’s no wonder he never put them on public display
On point – the wearing of lace has always been tied up with social status
Lace-making is an exacting craft – and who gets to wear the results is an equally delicate matter
The uncanny resonance of Hannah Starkey’s portraits
The photographer refers to all the women she photographs as icons, but it is in her home town of Belfast where her subjects truly come alive
The Vorticist who was nearly painted out of history
Helen Saunders was briefly at the forefront of British modernism – before she was cancelled by Wyndham Lewis
The Lithuanian painter who thought art could move heaven and earth
A survey of paintings by M.K. Čiurlionis at the Dulwich makes plain why the artist is heralded in his home country as a visionary
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