Early Draws
The British Museum is displaying some of the greatest draughtsmen of the Renaissance
Crises of Identity
Two European artists, Annette Messager and Gerhard Richter, explore the sense of self
No Mickey Mouse Artist
Roy Lichtenstein based his work on comic strips but his approach to painting was intellectual
The Precision Portraitist
Johan Zoffany’s art enjoyed only a brief vogue, but the RA’s show displays all his technical brilliance
An Awfully British Medium
The subtleties of watercolour reflect the national character—and it’s still going strong
The Great Experimentalist
The new Henry Moore retrospective re-establishes him as a pivotal artist of his time
Faces that Don’t Quite Fit
When it came to painting portraits, Constable struggled to emulate his mastery of landscape
Rare Visitor fom the Blue Danube Comes to the Mersey
Liverpool is staging the UK’s first comprehensive exhibition of the work of the great Austrian avant-garde artist, Gustav Klimt
The Space Behind Them
A contemporary of the British Pop Artists, Patrick Caulfield is at last coming into his own
Melancholia, Not Modernism
Edvard Munch may have yoked new technologies together but his leitmotifs were timeless