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Set fire to the façade: Kelly Grovier on The World Goes Pop at Tate Modern

Beneath Pop art’s kitschy veneer is something starker and more profound

Satirical, playful, irreverent: David D’Arcy on the photographer Robert Frank

A new documentary about the photographer provides an intimate look

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Against allegory: on Benjamin Buchloh’s new collection of essays

The art historian’s new book is properly pessimistic

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Writing on the wall: James Lawrence on Jackson Pollock

A fluent analysis by David Anfam of Pollock’s Mural

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Barbie and Ken in the Enlightenment: Joachim Whaley on 18th-century dolls

The extraordinary dolls’ town made by a Thuringian duchess

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A room of mystery and ghoulish things: Dora Thornton on the Cobbe Cabinet of Curiosities

A new book offers a scholarly account of the Cobbe family's collection

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Underneath the arches

What happened when Early Modern rulers came to town

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A swan-like artist: David Ekserdjian on the Renaissance master Andrea del Sarto

Draughtsmanship was one of the artist's finest skills

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Survival strategies under the Nazis: Grey Gowrie on artists under Hitler

What happens to the civilised when civilisation breaks down?

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Painting the Reformation: the Cranachs celebrated

Six books reveal the multifaceted output of the elder and younger Cranach in Thuringia

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The fatal force of fashion in French public affairs

Elaborate, luxurious and costly styles, such as those worn by Marie-Antoinette, helped to alienate the court from the people

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You cannot hold this: Orit Gat on Laure Prouvost

The Turner Prize-winning French artist’s latest show productively frustrates meaning

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Hal Foster in praise of dead art

In an excerpt from his new book, the art historian discusses the return of performance and process in contemporary art

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Pouring over the precious: James Yorke on luxury and sentimental objects

A survey of objects acquired between birth and death in early modern Europe that accompanies a Fitzwilliam exhibition

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Maybe it works: José da Silva on Tate Sensorium

The exhibition makes the paintings difficult to see, but it forces something new

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Frivolity, hedonism, sensuality and sex—OK!

The 19th-century revision of received perceptions of French Rococo art

Futile in the face of so much suffering: Anny Shaw on the Istanbul Biennial

The exhibition opened amid political and humanitarian crises

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When scholarship married the imagination: Peter Howell on Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

The French architect is the subject of two excellent new books

Drawing from an antique treasure chest: Martin Postle on the influence of antiquity

An exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum reveals the continued importance of the classical ideal

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Shadow boxing with Joseph Cornell: Kelly Grovier on what the artist hid and revealed

The US artist’s exhibition at the Royal Academy is full of careful omissions

When mourning becomes its own reward: on the work of Doris Salcedo

The Colombian sculptor finds inspiration in grief and channels it into new inventions

A healthy dose of nature: David D’Arcy on van Gogh’s landscapes

An exhibition at the Clark Art Institute is a road map for the artist’s psychological journey

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A problem for every problem: Mike Pepi on Art is a Problem

Joshua Decter’s book of essays raises questions it refuses to answer