• An interview with Yinka Shonibare
• Monsters in modern art
• Wordsworth among the artists
• Has LACMA lost its way?
Plus: cinema in the museum, art nouveau in Nancy, zingers at the Zwinger, and the paintings of Beauford Delaney
Jan Švankmajer | Pompeii | Cat ladies
Museum of West African Art | Jeremy Frey | Ed Ruscha
Napoleon Bonaparte | Caspar David Friedrich | the Impressionists
The National Gallery | Alvaro Barrington | Art and the oil industry
Edward C. Moore played a crucial role in the firm’s 19th-century success and his own collecting inspired some of its most impressive creations.
The story of Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin’s competing artistic outlooks is told with verve in Sjeng Scheijen’s new book
Outdoor activities offered Bloomsbury’s women welcome respite from their indoor pursuits
An exhibition at the Soane Museum shows that technical drawings of buildings are often more complex than they may seem