The Great Experimentalist
The new Henry Moore retrospective re-establishes him as a pivotal artist of his time
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Making an Impression
A new exhibition in Madrid casts a rich new light on the 19th-century French masters In April 1874, a group of young French artists shunned by the art establishment held an exhibition
An End to the Myth of the Tortured Soul
What was Van Gogh really like? A new exhibition brings us closer to the truth In a career lasting no more than ten years, Vincent Van Gogh produced about 900 paintings and 1,100
Conversation Stopper
Zoffany, 'the one-eyed German', was one of many masters of a very British sub-genre
A Macabre New Vision of Spain
The influence of religious sculpture on the Golden Age painters suddenly becomes clear
Genius at Work
Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times by William E. Wallace
A Good Look at Logic
Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitrou
Sell-Out Show at Tate Modern
Money is the driving force behind too much contemporary art
The Young Old Master
Was Turner ancient or modern? He himself was in no doubt about his ability to compete with both
Bad Luck with the Weather
John Piper, Myfanwy Piper, Lives in Art by Frances Spalding
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The usual hotchpotch at the RA Summer Exhibition and some awful Americana from Charles Saatchi
Back to Nature
Three artists approach landscape in very different ways