Renaissance Faces at the National Gallery offers plenty of visual treats, but little food for thought

The intimate detail of the artists’s life in film is the focus of the Hayward’s eccentric new show

Saatchi’s new gallery, a huge home for his great passion for Chinese art, reestablishes his importance to modern art

FOUR paintings depicting an Edwardian murder scene have gone on show together for the first time, resurrecting speculation that Walter Sickert, the artist, had serial killer tendencies. Sickert, who died in Bath in 1942, has been accused by Patricia Cornwell, the American crime writer, of being Jack the Ripper. He would have been 28 when […]

History paints Rothko as modernism’s martyr – unavoidably tragic – but a startling Tate show suggests we’ve had him wrong all these years

The Tate’s blockbuster show reveals Francis Bacon’s fierce genius – and limited range, says Waldemar Januszczak

Next week, Damien Hirst becomes the first artist to sell brand-new work at auction. He says greed is good for artists

Painting: pah. It’s the flashy young pretender to the throne of the great god sculpture, says our critic, who’s spent a year finding the world’s best

Some might think him boring. They’re wrong. For Cézanne was a man who revolutionised art, as the Courtauld’s show proves

The BM’s Hadrian show couldn’t be more timely. His political problems were just like ours