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Science may not be able to explain it, but artists show us the meaning of kissing

There’s more at stake than treasure in the story we tell about Sutton Hoo

Have you ever seen a happy sports photographer? Me neither. We go to the football to be excited and uplifted. Sports photographers go to get cold and rained on, and to have Adebayo Akinfenwa crashing down on their nuts after another poor Wycombe Wanderers corner. No wonder they come across as such a grumpy breed. […]

He may have lived squalidly, but the studious painter was no oik

The pandemic has laid waste to the industry, with last year’s biennales the casualties. Good — it’s time we returned to basics and put people back in the picture

While galleries remain shut, fans of Picasso and Hockney are giving art lovers daily doses of culture with social media accounts showing off their work

Once dismissed as excessively lavish and overly distorted, the art of the late Renaissance does offer some delights

The Queen’s Gallery can be overlooked but the art there weakens the knees

The juxtaposition of Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch is a revelation, shedding light on both painters’ work

They are new to many of us now, but artists have long been fans of face coverings