A breath of fresh paint
A revival in figurative art and the changing face of portraiture
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
A boy’s own adventure
Privileged images: the photography of Jacques Henri Lartigue
A maestro of detail long before Leonardo
How Jan van Eyck changed the trajectory of Western art
Brandt and Moore: The gentleman and the miner
Based on the impulse to look at everything afresh, Modernist photography could not help but deliver a jumble of perspectives, on both sides of the Atlantic
Comics plight no laughing matter
An iconic American art form is in crisis thanks to new writers pushing politically-correct storylines
A question of attribution
The forthcoming sale of a purported Caravaggio is set to exceed £100m, but its provenance is far from clear
A brush with painting’s history
The restoration of great works of art is increasingly being carried out in public before an admiring audience
Boom time for Picasso Inc.
One name dominates the art market, with his paintings soaring in value and remaining a solid investment
Masterpiece — or male and stale?
Once venerated as the founders of Western art, the Old Masters are losing their allure
No art too good for the workers
Fernand Léger drew from popular entertainment and working life to make Cubism less inaccessible
The master of human vanity
The new Pieter Bruegel exhibition in Vienna really is a once-in-a-lifetime artistic experience
The link between art and heart
A new Barbican exhibition explores how two were often better than one in the creative process