What links a little-known Italian artist, Shakespeare and red trousers? A painting of cheese eaters, with a bitter aftertaste

His reputation has tumbled in our neurotic century, but the artist’s luminous perfection —and love affairs — should be celebrated, says Waldemar Januszczak

Artists who can depict children well in paintings are a rare breed, says Waldemar Januszczak

As I queued outside Tesco last week, dutifully maintaining my 6ft distance, mask on, gloves pulled, it occurred to me that I could be doing the same thing outside the National Gallery in London while waiting to see the marvellous Titian exhibition that opened there last month. It was open for a couple of days. […]

Few words trigger as much anger and consternation in cultural circles as “deaccessioning”. It’s an attempt to sound technical and managerial about an activity that stirs deep emotions. No one wants to call it what it is — “flogging off the family silver”. But, whatever words you use, it has always gone on. And with […]

Forget the lurid stories and celebrate the astonishing intimacy created by the first great female painter

Lucas Cranach took a sardonic view of the human desire for eternal youth. Will we never learn?

A jerky ‘driftospective’ of Warhol’s art lacks the one thing we really need — wisdom

This green show tells us little about its subject — and creates a big carbon footprint in the process

Titian’s masterly Poesies are united for the first time at the National Gallery, and Waldemar Januszczak is awestruck