Picasso’s mistreated muses
It was women who drove his art to its heights – and women who bore the brunt of his callousness…
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Munch the social animal
The painter’s portraits reveal less a tortured loner than a man who thrived in company.
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Siena’s artistic revolution
In the 14th century, Duccio and others developed ways of painting that had never been seen before.
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Art and the ruins of the left
Can painting alter the course of our politics?
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The Face Magazine: Culture Shift invites you into the cool club
This National Portrait Gallery exhibition allows visitors to feel part of the energy of the Eighties, Nineties and early 2000s.
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Mickalene Thomas’s ode to Black joy
The American artist turns 19th-century paintings of women into celebrations of friends, family and lovers – with plenty of rhinestones.
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Visions of an English occult
The British surrealist Ithell Colquhoun combined magic and mythology to create art from buried folklore.
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The Pierre Bonnard renaissance
The enigmatic French painter is seen by many as a league below Matisse. But a new book proves them wrong…
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