Review
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
Against allegory: on Benjamin Buchloh’s new collection of essays
The art historian’s new book is properly pessimistic
Writing on the wall: James Lawrence on Jackson Pollock
A fluent analysis by David Anfam of Pollock’s Mural
Barbie and Ken in the Enlightenment: Joachim Whaley on 18th-century dolls
The extraordinary dolls’ town made by a Thuringian duchess
Seduction techniques: David Barrie on museums and 'soft power'
A study of its strategies and limitations
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
Baroque bouquet : Susan Jenkins on the Festschrift in honour of Jennifer Montagu
Honoring a scholar of 17th-century Italian sculpture
A fountain of scholarship: Jeremy Warren on Giambologna’s Neptune Fountain
In a new book, the artist's project is seen from many angles
A swan-like artist: David Ekserdjian on the Renaissance master Andrea del Sarto
Draughtsmanship was one of the artist's finest skills
Survival strategies under the Nazis: Grey Gowrie on artists under Hitler
What happens to the civilised when civilisation breaks down?
Painting the Reformation: the Cranachs celebrated
Six books reveal the multifaceted output of the elder and younger Cranach in Thuringia
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
You cannot hold this: Orit Gat on Laure Prouvost
The Turner Prize-winning French artist’s latest show productively frustrates meaning
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
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
Maybe it works: José da Silva on Tate Sensorium
The exhibition makes the paintings difficult to see, but it forces something new
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
When scholarship married the imagination: Peter Howell on Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
The French architect is the subject of two excellent new books
From obscurity to well-deserved fame: Clare Ford-Wille on a refreshing new book about Artemisia Gentileschi
The monograph shows that Gentileschi was well regarded in her time
‘Amateur management’ blamed as book claims third of galleries run at a loss
Magnus Resch conducted ten-year study
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
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
A problem for every problem: Mike Pepi on Art is a Problem
Joshua Decter’s book of essays raises questions it refuses to answer