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It needs more fleshing out
The RA paints a clear picture of Rubens’s legacy, but struggles to capture the master’s dazzling ambition
Top of the forms
Exciting, thought-provoking, intelligent — who knew the Whitechapel’s geometric abstractions would be such fun?
All good, clean fun?
The Jeff Koons retrospective in Paris is brash, childish fun — but it’s not quite what it seems
The true face of the Tudors
Henry VIII’s court has held our imagination since long before Wolf Hall. Nobody tells us more about its personalities than the painter Holbein
Light fantastic
Years before Tracey Emin, Joseph Kosuth was doing brilliant things with neon. Elsewhere, Barry McGlashan has fun in the studios of giants
Arts and craftiness
It’s a great idea to compare William Morris and Andy Warhol. Shame there’s not enough of their work to see
The pity of war distilled
Beauty is the guest never asked to a conflict. But it keeps turning up in Tate Modern’s new show
No way to treat a lady
Droopy damsels in distress take centre stage in A Victorian Obsession
Ancient art or modern lust?
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.