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Fingers aren’t on the pulse in this patchy survey of British art. Perhaps it’s because we’re not living through a scintillating homegrown era

After a false start to their defence of Thomas Lawrence, the National Portrait Gallery reveal him as a great painter, not just a Regency sex pest

Do you ever tire of Canaletto? Then look closer — he is no hawker of painted postcards, but a great and pioneering Romantic master

You won’t find radicalism in the 2010 Turner Prize, but works of quiet and sophisticated poetic beauty instead

Gauguin wasn’t a sex tourist, but a myth-maker and troubled genius, as Tate Modern’s magnificent, unmissable retrospective makes clear

Yes, Claude Monet was a great impressionist, but the whopper of a show in Paris reveals definitively that he was so much more

The pioneering photographer was a showman, an obsessive husband and ultimately a murderer. Yet he was also a profoundly important artist

Budapest’s priceless artworks are the subject of the Royal Academy’s blockbuster autumn show. Our critic headed there to get the back story

As the arts face the latest round of funding cuts, what’s a critic to suggest? Flog all the stuff we don’t show and watch the cash roll in…

He is berated as an arrogant paedophile who falsified his own life story. Even his talent is often dismissed. Yet Gauguin is a falsely maligned genius