For some artists, Hollywood is the ruin of a former civilisation
Duncan Fallowell on the blockbuster travelling show, now at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, until 13 March
The exhibition is too stiff for the artist, but he shines through
The artist's excessive emphasis on production eclipses everything else
The charm of Samuel Palmer’s work is its refusal to submit to analysis
From the 1860s, a network of museums were founded nationwide
To mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, a book celebrates Adolph Menzel as the “painter of modern life”
The Anglo-Dutch artist Cornelius Johnson emerges from the shadow of Van Dyck
Louisa Buck and Pac Pobric pick their favourite exhibitions of the year in the UK and the US
Politics are everywhere in the inaugural edition of the show
The exhibition beautifully captures how religion shaped the region
The voices of owners, occupants and users of British Modernist architecture are unheard in this admiring—and admirable—history
Critical conviction regarding Stella's work has fallen with the quality of the art
The Imperial Roman construction of ancient Egypt
Georg Pencz comes into his own at last. By David Ekserdjian
A book for non-specialists on painting conservation. By Will Shank
The story of Daniel Nijs, who impoverished himself selling Italian art to King Charles I
How Italian Renaissance mendicant orders struggled to reconcile their ideals and their wealth. By Christopher Colven
Horticultural art of the 18th century owes much to the aristocratic female garden-makers who were at the centre of Georgian society
Two shows in Bern reveal how the artist grappled with youth, exile and death
Set in the context of their times, Goya’s portraits finally get the attention they deserve, says the art historian
Is there a more dramatic 19th-century painter of hands than Goya?
The artist’s exhibition is at its best in its quieter, less spectacular moments
From Manhattan to Beijing, with 30 years in between, Scully writes about his pupil