Review
Towering triumph: on the scholarly resurrection of Joseph de Levis
The Renaissance bronze-founder has been brought back to life by scholarly research
Your mind is not a computer: on Ian Cheng at MoMA PS1
The artist has a techno-determinist view of human development
Ancient China: a crossroads to the world
A landmark exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is powered by new scholarship and archaeological discoveries
A panoply of plastic poses: on Emma Hamilton
A new book explores her extraordinary personal and social transformations
The parrot point of view: on Edward Lear's natural history studies
Such works were the basis of his later landscapes
The Donald Trump style of art history
The greatest works of Western art vindicate the US president’s ideas of democracy, according to his senior director for strategic assessments
Worth the pilgrimage: on Francesco de Mura at Vassar College
Much of this long-neglected Baroque artist's work is lost, but what remains is worth another look
Naming names: on the Le Nain mystery at Louvre-Lens
An exhibition attempts to assign discrete attributions to the works of the brothers Le Nain
Banking and benevolence: on the Rothschild family
A century and a half of generosity is recorded in a wide-ranging history of the family
The road to the Venice Biennale is paved with good intentions
Curator Christine Macel’s worthy aims of saving the planet and helping refugees has seriously backfired
Circumstantial evidence clinches the case: how careful archaeology corrects misunderstandings
A new book will undoubtedly change the way we talk and think about Early Cycladic objects
A weak sketch of influence: on John Latham at the Serpentine Galleries
The influential artist's work does not inspire the richest ideas in the exhibition
A bottomless repository of culture: on illuminated Medieval manuscripts
There are remarkable riches to be mined from a group of new books
Dissatisfactions and aspirations in pen and ink
A multifaceted artist’s monumental engagements with drawing
Worth the detour: on the National Gallery's lesser-known Renaissance masterpieces
Works from Bologna and Ferrara are the subject of a comprehensive new catalogue
How Matisse helped Diebenkorn calm his ‘rage at human nature’
The American artist learned much from his French predecessor, but his sense of disquiet was his own
Nudity, high living, intense emotion, danger, tragedy and erotic allure
A new book looks at Roman choices of mythological subjects
The champion of the new: Kenneth Baker on the Dwan Gallery at Lacma
An exhibition examining Virginia Dwan's Los Angeles and New York galleries reminds our critic of times past
To break through the Modernist cube: on Lygia Pape at the Met Breuer
The artist's work is part of a broad tendency to escape the bounds of Modernism, but it is complicated by its nostalgic mood
The connoisseurs’ preserve needs expansion
The study of carpets has changed little since the 19th century and new approaches are needed
Let perception be your guide: how to see the Rococo
A virtual reality tour of an 18th-century German abbey
Life at the high end: what it is like to work at an auction house
Memoirs by Charles Hindlip and Simon de Pury, and a history of Christie’s, shed light from above
The whole world in wood and copper
Prints were the main source of visual (mis)information for three centuries
How Eduardo Paolozzi channelled the chaos of Modern life
The artist’s relevance to our disruptive digital age shines through in a Whitechapel survey
The persistent disbeliever: on Donald Judd's writings
A new book of his collected essays reveals the ferocity with which he questioned almost everything
Oedipal susceptibilities: on rivalry and friendship among artists
Skilfully interwoven stories cast new light on the artistic and personal dynamics behind some of the greatest works of Modern art
The comprehensive corpus on Peter Paul Rubens
Two new titles are added to the peerless catalogue of Rubens’s work