Waldemar Januszczak is given exclusive access to the most important of the artist’s outpourings at the gallery’s temporary home
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Mary Beard’s views on the nude in art is not the whole picture
The academic calls depictions of the naked form ‘soft porn for the elite’. She’s behind the curve
Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution; Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent
Van Eyck may not have invented oil paints, but he mastered them in an exceptional way, as this enlightening show in Belgium proves
Picasso and Paper, Royal Academy
This fascinating exhibition reveals the full scope of his brilliance
Art in Iran: Donald Trump’s Twitter threat to target cultural sites in the country should make us acknowledge their surpassing beauty
Tehran’s gleaming tombs and Isfahan’s soaring madrasas barely scratch the surface of the Iranian contribution to culture. By Waldemar Januszczak
The best of the decade
Waldemar picks his highlights from the past decade
Hogarth: Place and Progress
A pugnacious Hogarth show at the Sir John Soane’s Museum is full of political pertinence
Theaster Gates, Tate Liverpool
The American artist brings a quietly shocking show about slavery to Liverpool
Cars: Accelerating the Modern World, V&A, London
The V&A’s motor show is full of vivid observations — understand it and you will understand humanity
Anselm Kiefer, White Cube, London; Ged Quinn, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Anselm Kiefer’s mind-blowing White Cube show gives us the bigger picture: it’s outrageously ambitious