Exhibitions
The life of Artemisia Gentileschi is made for Netflix, but it’s the art that really excites
In search of the feminist heroine, survivor of abuse, canny player of the art market and bravura painter
Welder, banjo player, comedian, actor, and now artist — Billy Connolly interviewed
Britain’s greatest comic story-teller discusses growing up in Glasgow, ditching the mike stand and living with Parkinson’s
Are there ways in which virtual exhibitions are better than real ones?
Go to the Closer to Van Eyck website, for example, and you can zoom in to examine the surface of his paintings as never before
An old master who still feels new
El Greco is at the Art Institute of Chicago. Can we trust the modernists on the gifts of ‘The Greek’?
Urbino legend
The chance of a lifetime for lovers of Raphael
The history, power and beauty of infographics
W.E.B. Du Bois’s eloquent and ingenious charts, maps and diagrams showing the progress of 19th-century African Americans were powerful weapons in combatting racism
Martin Gayford visits the greatest one-artist show on Earth
The cycle of 50 Tintorettos at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice includes one of Martin Gayford’s favorite – and most cinematic – Nativity scenes
What the Art Basel Banana says about our world
It’s rotten even if the banana is not
Leonardo da Virtual
Mass tourism has overwhelmed our major museums. Could virtual reality be the solution?
A motel room of one’s own
Adman to American existentialist: Edward Hopper at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Why Lucian Freud hated having his picture taken
Martin Gayford remembers the painter once hurling bread rolls at a stranger he suspected of taking snaps of him
Leonardo in Paris
A stunning journey into the ‘science of painting’
Secrets of the maestro
The first major American exhibition of Andrea del Verrocchio confirms that he was a Renaissance innovator, and more than Leonardo’s teacher
A bizarre exhibition of Trump family fan art
The strangest Melania and Ivanka Trump illustrations the internet has to offer
Toulouse-Lautrec, poster child of Bohemia
Life had cast the half-pint hedonist for the circus, but he had family money as well as talent
A Hobbit-sized exhibition about Tolkien as pipe-smoker and parent
A new showcase gives us the real Tolkien – not his awful legacy
How much did Churchill owe to Shakespeare?
An exhibition in Washington explores the Bard’s influence on the British Prime Minister
Death in Venice, alive in New York
Tintoretto looked not up to heaven, but down to the fallen angels of our modern age
The glory that was the Low Countries, the disaster that is the European Union
Jan van Eyck at the Frick Collection
It’s the blood that gets you
Delacroix in the flesh, at the Met
The Precisionist Impulse: in search of the first American art movement
The group melded the materialism of the urban landscape with what was idealistic and essentially Romantic about the city
Where did all the Chippendales go?
Time to buy brown
