Lasting legacy of an English idealist
Samuel Courtauld’s Impressionist paintings can now be seen beside those he bought for the nation
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
An Exhibition of and for the nation
The Royal Academy’s summer bunfight has long ceased to be the place for new waves to emerge
Essex man who left his mark
Edward Bawden’s versatility has masked his huge contribution to 20th-century British art
The unknown Americans
US artists of the interwar years can at last be appreciated in a revealing Oxford exhibition
The man who set himself in stone
Murillo has gone out of fashion but an exhibition of his portraits may help to restore his reputation
The eye homes in — he homes out
Andreas Gursky’s disquieting yet sublime photographs form the first show at the refurbished Hayward
Nifty shades of grey
A new exhibition at the National Gallery displays an extraordinary range of monochrome works
The faces above and below stairs
Soutine’s hotel workers and Cézanne’s gardener feature in two London exhibitions of portraits
Old Spanish customers
Some of the Iberian treasures bought by Victorian collector John Bowes can now be seen in London
Hinterland of a Recluse
Jasper Johns is the J.D. Salinger of contemporary art, whose gnomic work defies easy categorisation
A vase by any other name
An exhibition lets us see objects from Matisse’s studio alongside the paintings he used them in
Domesticity And The Divine
For Italians of the Renaissance, the home was a place of religious intimacy and contemplation