The greatest works of Western art vindicate the US president’s ideas of democracy, according to his senior director for strategic assessments

Much of this long-neglected Baroque artist's work is lost, but what remains is worth another look

An exhibition attempts to assign discrete attributions to the works of the brothers Le Nain

A century and a half of generosity is recorded in a wide-ranging history of the family

Curator Christine Macel’s worthy aims of saving the planet and helping refugees has seriously backfired

A new book will undoubtedly change the way we talk and think about Early Cycladic objects

The influential artist's work does not inspire the richest ideas in the exhibition

There are remarkable riches to be mined from a group of new books

A multifaceted artist’s monumental engagements with drawing

Works from Bologna and Ferrara are the subject of a comprehensive new catalogue

The American artist learned much from his French predecessor, but his sense of disquiet was his own

A new book looks at Roman choices of mythological subjects

An exhibition examining Virginia Dwan's Los Angeles and New York galleries reminds our critic of times past

Their symbiotic relationship is the subject of a new book

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 study of carpets has changed little since the 19th century and new approaches are needed

A virtual reality tour of an 18th-century German abbey

Memoirs by Charles Hindlip and Simon de Pury, and a history of Christie’s, shed light from above

Prints were the main source of visual (mis)information for three centuries

The artist’s relevance to our disruptive digital age shines through in a Whitechapel survey

A new book of his collected essays reveals the ferocity with which he questioned almost everything

Skilfully interwoven stories cast new light on the artistic and personal dynamics behind some of the greatest works of Modern art

Two new titles are added to the peerless catalogue of Rubens’s work

An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum looks at the profound role Maine played in peripatetic artist's life and work

Picabia at his most brilliant, perverse and energetic

As an artist, Jacopo de’ Barbari became almost invisible

Many of the works in this year’s exhibition respond to the country’s social tensions, but the pressing question about what art can do during a crisis remains unanswered

A survey of the best books that have come out of Hieronymus Bosch’s quincentenary