Sculpture
Strokes of genius
The art on show over the coming year demonstrates that we still live in an age of mighty painters, says Martin Gayford
Dwelling in marble halls
Phrases such as ‘Some aspects of…’ are death at the box-office, so it is not exactly unknown for the titles…
Pop provocateur
After years of being effectively banned from exhibiting in his own country, Allen Jones finally reaches the RA with his first major UK retrospective. Andrew Lambirth meets him
Beyond satire
Jeff Koons is, by measures understood in Wall Street, the most successful living artist. But he’s a slick brand manager…
A Cubist in New York
The American Jewish artist Max Weber (1881–1961) was born in Belostok in Russia (now Bialystok in Poland), and although he…
All too human
Alasdair Palmer reveals the monstrous egomaniac behind Michelangelo’s artistic genius
Wood work
The New York-based sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard comes from a long line of Polish and Ukrainian peasant farmers. She was…
A woman’s work
Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828) was virtually the only female sculptor working in Britain during her lifetime. Contemporary artists may have…
Brushes with fame
Philip Hensher on the precarious fortunes of even the most gifted 19th-century artists
