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The RA paints a clear picture of Rubens’s legacy, but struggles to capture the master’s dazzling ambition

Exciting, thought-provoking, intelligent — who knew the Whitechapel’s geometric abstractions would be such fun?

The Jeff Koons retrospective in Paris is brash, childish fun — but it’s not quite what it seems

Henry VIII’s court has held our imagination since long before Wolf Hall. Nobody tells us more about its personalities than the painter Holbein

Years before Tracey Emin, Joseph Kosuth was doing brilliant things with neon. Elsewhere, Barry McGlashan has fun in the studios of giants

It’s a great idea to compare William Morris and Andy Warhol. Shame there’s not enough of their work to see

Beauty is the guest never asked to a conflict. But it keeps turning up in Tate Modern’s new show

Droopy damsels in distress take centre stage in A Victorian Obsession

A magazine shoot of Kim Kardashian naked has caused a sensation. It echoes classical depictions of the female form, but far from celebrating women, it panders to male fantasy.

After Warhol, pop art underwent a controversial revival in Russia and China. On the eve of a Saatchi show, Waldemar Januszczak looks at how the work cocked a snook at dictators, while Audrey Ward interviews the artists