Curators this year have delighted in juxtaposing Old Masters and contemporary artists – but do the comparisons always make sense?
Redevelopment is threatening London’s art dealing home
With trophy pieces from national collections and outstanding loans, this unmissable exhibition tells a compelling story
How much will Constable’s ‘The Lock’ have to fetch at auction on July 3 to actually reap a profit for its vendors?
Since 1963, Michael Peppiatt has been writing about art and meeting artists. A new book compiles 40 of his best interviews
Waddesdon Manor has been home to the banking dynasty for centuries. Jacob Rothschild explains how an exhibition of modern sculpture fits right in
Degas’ nudes, their bodies sometimes unflatteringly cropped, introduced a new understanding of truth as beauty
A survey of British photography in the latter half of the 20th century fills the Victoria & Albert Museum with thought, talent and feeling
The case for business sponsorship should not be hard to make
Italians in London, Nordic art on the up, and how much for Munch
This small, museum-quality show offers an intimate glimpse into the life and working methods of the late painter
Rollercoaster results in London; ARR case settles in California; Freud and Hockney for sale
Cultural figures are the biggest refuseniks when it comes to honours
Tate Britain presents a new exhibition devoted to the country’s émigré artists
The solutions to our cultural quiz of the year
It’s been a good year for painters, male dancers and female pop stars – tempered by heroic dissidence and untimely death
Haunch of Venison launches a special show on British postwar painting, ‘the most underexplored terrain of our national art’
Attempts to fix David Hockney’s place in history coincide with a Royal Academy exhibition of his art work
A new show explores the often surprising dialogue among Britain’s most celebrated postwar artists – and what it reveals about their work
Not even a Dover sole has the same richness of flavour, firmness of texture or sheer juiciness
The play is about snobbery, what we expect of those of high status and what we may forgive in them
Auctions at Phillips de Pury, Bonhams, Sotheby’s and Christie’s
Tate Modern’s retrospective of Gerhard Richter demonstrates his unrivalled influence as a painter
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