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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
The Great Depression led to range of responses by American artists, whose works are on show in London
The video artist takes us on a tour of Merz’s Met Breuer retrospective and explains why her smaller work is best
Art for art’s sake, or for the sake of socioeconomic benefits? Two writers reach very different conclusions
On the eve of his 100th birthday, James Ackerman shows no signs of slowing down in this collection of essays
The art historian suggests that Velázquez's former slave may have painted two works in the show
A group of books looks at the artists Caravaggio influenced—more or less
An exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York looks at how the collection was shaped
The influential “Etruscan” painter and Risorgimento patriot deserves our recognition
The first volume of a long-awaited work of scholarship
The French avant-garde artist’s work was prescient about our era of “post-truth” politics and culture
Science is the key to the story of the 16th-century aristocratic tombs in a Suffolk parish church
A show at the Grey Gallery looks at a time when artists could afford to run their own spaces
A group of "sex drawings" by the Soviet filmmaker are on show in New York
A new books makes a passionate argument for museums
A survey of the painter’s work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art reveals his affinities for Asian cultures
Not everyone could afford their own mortuary churches or chapels
This small book is ground-breaking, bringing to light Islamic beliefs and superstitions
By turns successful and unsuccessful, the show presents a retrospective of the museum
Mohamed Abla's show of new works in Cairo is on amid a moment of prolonged political agony in the country
A farewell collection of reviews by the American-born, British art critic
The critic examines a bracing and brilliant survey of the artist's work
A show at Galerie St. Etienne in New York looks at how left-wing politics once animated culture—and how they no longer do
