Painting
Bacon and Giacometti go head to head in show at Fondation Beyeler
Swiss museum hosts first major comparative exhibition of the two artists
What do Queen Elizabeth I and Surrealist Frida Kahlo have in common?
Heni Talks: Through portraits, Penny Huntsman finds parallels between the lives of these two great women
How Delacroix went from lycée dropout to establishment favourite
Exhibition at the Musée du Louvre is first major survey of the painter’s work in more than 50 years
Monet's urban obsession explored in major new London show
National Gallery exhibition, which includes Rouen cathedral paintings, reveals another side of French Impressionist
The Met resurrects Italian Old Master’s Entombment
Museum’s restoration lifts “grey veil” from final commission by the Renaissance artist Moretto da Brescia
Books essay: naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian was a woman in a man’s world
Her work straddles the territories of art and science, bugs and flowers
The world's most popular exhibition? Ancient sculptures in Tokyo versus Modern masters in Paris
Plus record crowds in US, UK and Australia
How much of conservators’ work should be visible and how much should be hidden?
The release of a pre-conservation image of Leonardo’s $450m Salvator Mundi reignites debate over the transparency of conservators’ interventions
Tefaf trends: Sweden is in, England is out, but Italy is always in vogue
Melanie Gerlis sets the scene for six specialist collecting categories at this year’s Maastricht fair
Dreaming to drowning: a year in the life of Picasso
Tate Modern’s major new show focuses on 1932, a period of turbulent creativity that gave rise to some of the artist’s greatest work
Private View: our pick of March gallery shows
New shows at commercial galleries, from emerging names to rediscovered talents
Roy Lichtenstein painting hidden in private collection for 25 years to be unveiled
Frightened Girl is part of a London exhibition devoted to the Ben-Day dot technique commonly used in pulp fiction comics
Rubens and the works that inspired him brought together at Städel Museum
Flemish master had access to art from across the ages and assiduously reworked drawings by other artists
Thomas Cole's Old World roots and art-world inspirations examined in transatlantic show
Exhibition on US painter opens at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art before travelling to London
Fit for a king? What the British press is saying about the new Charles I exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts show has received near unanimous reviews
Royal Academy of Arts reunites masterpieces from Charles I's collection—many for first time since his execution
Exhibition will include paintings by Titian, Mantegna and Van Dyck
Time to look: Laura Owens’s self-reflective paintings demand considered attention
Visitors should not rush through the Los Angeles artist’s mid-career survey at New York’s Whitney Museum
Damien Hirst to spotify Houghton Hall
Colour Space will show some brand-new works by Damien Hirst
Van Gogh in Japan: research uncovers a two-way affair
Survey of Dutch master’s admiration for, and influence on, Japanese art is most ambitious yet
Damien Hirst gives exhibition to former spot painter Rachel Howard
Howard and John Copeland to take over Newport Street gallery in February
Why the process of painting never ends
The US artist Brice Marden takes a new tack in his latest works, on show at Gagosian in London
Artist William Tillyer given year-long platform by London dealer Bernard Jacobson
Stalwart gallerist to launch five shows and a monograph on the painter, who turns 80 next year
Drip dry: Moca LA to restore Pollock painting in its galleries
The museum aims to open the cleaning process to the public, with a conservator on hand to answer questions
Many strategies for survival: Barbara Rose on painting after Postmodernism
Rumors of the death of painting have been greatly exaggerated
Full of prim euphemism: Brian Dillon on Dave Hickey’s 25 Women
The book’s finest points are overshadowed by dispiriting foolishness
Cool doesn’t cut it: Andrew Lambirth on painting today
The presentation of painting all too often undermines the nature of true invention





























