After the austerity of Cromwell, Charles II cheered England up. A lavish show at Buckingham Palace reveals how he brought the monarchy back to glory with baroque bling
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Turner Prize 2017, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
This year’s Turner prize show is less a humdinger, more a preachy moan. But one artist rises above it all. The winner is…
Pride and Persecution: Jan Steen’s Old Testament Scenes, Barber Institute of Fine Arts
A new Jan Steen show puts the Dutch artist’s Old Testament work centre stage — for fascinating reasons
The miracle of Da Vinci: turning a £45 oddity into a £341m old master
The record price paid last week for an atypical work by the Renaissance painter tells us more about hype than value in art
Modigliani at Tate Modern: the naked truth
Waldemar Januszczak lays bare the capricious impressionist as his work comes to Tate Modern
Red Star over Russia and Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at Tate Modern
Tate Modern explores Russian posters and installation art — and in both shows there’s something missing
Living with Gods at the British Museum
A display of sacred objects is inspiringly curated by Neil MacGregor
Cézanne Portraits, National Portrait Gallery
A wealth of brilliant Cézannes highlights some sadly scrappy scholarship from the National Portrait Gallery
Chaïm Soutine at the Courtauld
Soutine’s life may have been squalid, but it didn’t stop him producing some of the most marvellous portraits of his age, says Waldemar Januszczak
Poor Art/Arte Povera at the Estorick Collection
Italian grit and Brit wit mark a transformative 50 years of arte povera