• The Russian artists making a stand against the war
• An interview with Gabriele Finaldi, director of the National Gallery
• The miniature marvels of Charles Paget Wade
• A Yoruba masterpiece in focus
Plus: London’s art market after Brexit, the Huntington Library comes up to speed, the beauty of banality, and reviews of Maillol’s sculptures, gilded manuscripts and Van Leo’s photographs of Cairo
• Off the grid: a messier side to Mondrian
• Picasso’s obsession with El Greco
• An interview with Isaac Julien
• How Gio Ponti jazzed up Padua
Plus: William Kent’s heavenly ceilings, New York’s terrible new skyscrapers, the market’s obsession with young painters, the artists who channel their inner child, and reviews of Walter Sickert, Raphael and Winslow Homer
• The method in Jackson Pollock’s madness
• The problem with Russian money in the art world
• What war photography looks like today
• Philip Guston’s uneasy quest for freedom
Plus: The women artists gazing at men, the portraits of Glyn Philpot, and Elizabeth David’s taste in Old Masters; and reviews of Donatello in Florence, Boilly in Paris, Kafka’s drawings and Stephen Shore’s memoir.
• What was really behind Surrealism?
• An interview with Cecilia Alemani, Artistic Director of the Venice Biennale
• Revealing the mystery of Bassano’s Quails
• The Venice Pavilions you must see
Plus: Beyond the Biennale, greenwashing in museums, what we’re losing with Bastion House
• An interview with Charles Ray
• The style wars of Ricardo Bofill
• Gamers and galleries don’t quite come to blows
• What has changed at the Burrell?
Plus: the lost palaces of London, Yves Saint Laurent takes over Paris, and how do you commemorate Covid?
• An interview with Ai Weiwei
• The art of kabuki theatre
• Dining with Beauty and the Beast
• The drawings of Jacques-Louis David
Plus: a touring display of Islamic arts in France, the hellish mining scenes of George Bissell, Madame de Pompadour’s porcelain, and a preview of Asia Week New York
An interview with Howardena Pindell + Gainsborough’s Blue Boy and friends +The Humboldt Forum finally opens + Medieval Christian art in Georgia + Plus: Kazakh gold in Cambridge, Dürer’s wanderlust, rocks that look good enough to eat – and are New Towns old hat?
FEATURES | Imogen Tedbury on Botticelli’s bling; Kirsten Tambling on Fabergé’s fabulous baubles; Susan Moore visits the dealer and decorator Robert Kime in London; Jo Lawson-Tancred asks whether machines can do art history.
REVIEWS | Susan Owens on Constable’s late works in London; Kelly Presutti on 18th-century British glassware in Corning; Donal Cooper on Italian Renaissance altarpieces; Christopher Turner on Frank Lloyd Wright; Thomas Marks on Tiepolo’s gnocchi-munching Punchinellos.
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