• An interview with Carolee Schneemann • D.H. Lawrence among the Etruscans • Antiquities debates in Israel • A potted history of studio ceramics
PLUS: tribal art, French symbolism, Raqib Shaw and much more
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
The museum’s head of framing, Peter Schade, is quietly changing how we see some of the world’s most famous pictures
Outdoor activities offered Bloomsbury’s women welcome respite from their indoor pursuits
The story of Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin’s competing artistic outlooks is told with verve in Sjeng Scheijen’s new book
Most paintings of the Virgin Mary show her holding the divine infant, but a 14th-century panel by Cenni di Francesco reminds us of more earthy realities