Exhibition on US painter opens at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art before travelling to London

Royal Academy of Arts show has received near unanimous reviews

Exhibition will include paintings by Titian, Mantegna and Van Dyck

Visitors should not rush through the Los Angeles artist’s mid-career survey at New York’s Whitney Museum

Colour Space will show some brand-new works by Damien Hirst

Survey of Dutch master’s admiration for, and influence on, Japanese art is most ambitious yet

Howard and John Copeland to take over Newport Street gallery in February

The US artist Brice Marden takes a new tack in his latest works, on show at Gagosian in London

Stalwart gallerist to launch five shows and a monograph on the painter, who turns 80 next year

The museum aims to open the cleaning process to the public, with a conservator on hand to answer questions

Rumors of the death of painting have been greatly exaggerated

The book’s finest points are overshadowed by dispiriting foolishness

The presentation of painting all too often undermines the nature of true invention

French 19th-century flower painting gets a long overdue accolade

Part one of a series on Luther’s favourite painter and publicist

Part two of a series on Luther’s favourite painter and publicist

Part three of a series on Luther’s favourite painter and publicist