They are new to many of us now, but artists have long been fans of face coverings
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Forget The Queen’s Gambit, here’s the real art of chess
The game has been inspiring creative minds for centuries
The Japanese by Christopher Harding, review — an impressive history
A marvellous study of a nation in 20 memorable characters
Arctic — Culture and Climate at the British Museum
A show that needs more grit and less propaganda
The Sin exhibition at the National Gallery
Sin is a terrific subject for a show, if treated with curiosity and respect, but this is dumbing down
Polly Morgan’s How to Behave at Home at the Bomb Factory; The Royal Academy’s Winter Exhibition
A fabulously unique show that will have you squirming
Bruce Nauman, Tate Modern, London SE1
Baffling and bleak, Bruce Nauman’s work is hugely influential — and the perfect art for the Covid world
Artemisia, National Gallery, London WC2
Snappy, witty, funny: the National Gallery’s new show charts the arrival of a unique female voice
Look after the pennies and the Tondo takes care of itself
Here we go again. Just as the arrival of the first swallow signals the start of spring, so the arrival of a financial crisis at the Royal Academy prompts a call for the academy to sell its most prized possession: the Taddei Tondo. Carved in Florence in the early 1500s, this unfinished relief is the […]
Cecily Brown, Blenheim Palace; Tantra, British Museum
Some of Cecily Brown’s paintings at Blenheim misfire, but the best are snappy and subversive