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Bill Viola/Michelangelo, Royal Academy
The Royal Academy has put Bill Viola’s videos next to Michelangelo’s drawings: who wins?
Pierre Bonnard at Tate Modern — brightness is not the same thing as brilliance
Too many marks, too many colours, too little sense of direction: our critic is underwhelmed by the artist’s clunky, repetitive works
Martin Creed, Hauser & Wirth; Prints I Wish I Had Published, Bernard Jacobson Gallery
The Turner winner writes loser’s poetry. Oddly, it gives him a special presence
The art of restoration: Artemisia Gentileschi, Rembrandt, Van Eyck and a new gallery trend
Live conservation is suddenly the hottest thing in the art world — and we have Artemisia Gentileschi to thank for that
Landseer’s The Monarch of the Glen and Rachel Maclean: The Lion and the Unicorn, National Gallery
The heroic Monarch of the Glen makes Landseer’s grim and compromised career look all the more noble at the National
Cast Courts, V&A, London
From Trajan’s Column to Michelangelo’s David, the V&A’s reopened Cast Courts house thrilling full-size replicas of the world’s artistic wonders
Thomas Gainsborough, National Portrait Gallery
Gainsborough was mesmerised by his daughters, and so are we
Fernand Léger, Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool’s Fernand Léger show reveals a jovial French provincial with fluctuating styles and a taste for bulky girls
Andy Warhol — From A to B and Back Again, Whitney Museum, New York
Think you know Warhol? Think again. The first American retrospective in 30 years reveals a depth to the artist beyond the soup cans and screen prints, says Waldemar Januszczak