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MICHELANGELO The last decades British Museum, until July 28 MICHELANGELO The last decades SARAH VOWLES AND GRANT LEWIS 256pp. British Museum Press. 35 [pounds sterling]. Medieval mystics went into raptures [...]

ANGELICA KAUFFMAN Royal Academy of Arts, London, until June 30 ANGELICA KAUFFMAN BETTINA BAUMGARTEL AND ANNETTE WICKHAM 128pp. Royal Academy. 20 [pounds sterling]. Two Swiss painters, both born in 1741, [...]

FRANS HALS National Gallery, London, until January 21; then Amsterdam and Berlin FRANS HALS BART CORNELIS, JAAP VAN DER VEEN, FRISO LAMMERTSE AND JUSTINE RINNOOY KAN 224pp. National Gallery Global. [...]

VAN GOGH Self-portraits Courtauld Gallery, until May 8 VAN GOGH Self-portraits LOUIS VAN TILBORGH AND MARTIN BAILEY Edited by Karen Serres 152pp. Paul Holberton. Paperback, 25 [pounds sterling]. Without the [...]

DONATELLO Sculpting the Renaissance Victoria and Albert Museum, until June 11 DONATELLO Sculpting the Renaissance PETA MOTTURE, EDITOR 288pp. V&A Publishing. 45 [pounds sterling]. IN RECENT WEEKS you may have [...]

CREATION Art since the beginning JOHN-PAUL STONARD 464pp. Bloomsbury. 30 [pounds sterling]. When Tate Modern first opened in 2000, the displays were organized according to genres--Landscape, Still-Life, the Nude and [...]

THE UGLY DUCHESS Beauty and satire in the Renaissance National Gallery, until June 11 THE UGLY DUCHESS Beauty and satire in the Renaissance EMMA CAPRON ET AL 80pp. National Gallery [...]

Julian Pritchard's indignant reaction to my brief comparison of Donatello with Vermeer (Letters, May 5) confirms that it is now heretical to criticize the Dutch petit-maitre. The larger, evidently naive [...]

I was delighted to find that Andrew Butterfield, in his review of my latest book, The Artist's Studio: A cultural history, was impressed by the 'immense' learning, freshness and lack [...]

I very much enjoyed Ferdinand Mount's review of Jonathan Duke-Evans's An English Tradition? (February 3). But I am left wondering, and hoping, that Duke-Evans goes further than Mount's review suggests [...]

RAPHAEL National Gallery, until July 31 RAPHAEL DAVID EKSERDJIAN, TOM HENRY ET AL 328pp. National Gallery. 40 [pounds sterling]. THE NATIONAL GALLERY'S splendid Raphael survey--organized, appropriately enough, with limpid lucidity--has [...]

The contentious statues that have been in the news recently are the products of statuemania, the nineteenth--and early twentieth-century craze for erecting statues of mostly male worthies in public locations. [...]

LEONARD DE VINCI Musee du Louvre, until February 24, 2020 MONA LISA: BEYOND THE GLASS Musee du Louvre and online LEONARD DE VINCI VINCENT DELIEUVIN ET AL 480pp. Hazan. 35 [...]

REMBRANDT'S LIGHT Dulwich Picture Gallery, until February 2, 2020 Before seeing Rembrandt's Light, it is worth bearing in mind that the depiction of light emanating from a particular source is [...]

Roger Pearson (Letters, May 14) makes some important points in his eloquent response to my essay on public statues. There is still some room for disagreement and clarification, however. Pearson [...]

The government's response to the Covid-induced crisis in education is piecemeal and inadequate. The funding body UK Research and Innovation is advising postgraduate students to 'adapt and adjust research projects [...]

ELIZABETHAN TREASURES Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver National Portrait Gallery, until May 19 Catharine MacLeod et al ELIZABETHAN TREASURES Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver 232pp. National Portrait Gallery. 35[pounds sterling]. [...]

Simon Jenkins's scepticism regarding the cult of super-ruins and those who would 'confine the past to stones and dust' (November 6) reminds me of a review I wrote for the [...]

John Smurthwaite (Letters, December 20), responding to my account of the display of Jacob Epstein's 'Jacob and the Angel' in Blackpool in the 1940s, recalls seeing Epstein's 'Adam' at Louis [...]

RUIN LUST Tate Britain, until May 18 Brian Dillon RUIN LUST Artists' fascination with ruins from Turner to the present day 63pp. Tate Gallery Publishing. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 [...]

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain RODIN 432pp. Abbeville. 90 [pounds sterling] (US $135). 978 0 7892 1207 8 The novelist Anatole France coined an essential phrase when he accused Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) [...]

REMBRANDT The late works National Gallery, London until January 18, 2015 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, February 12-May 17 Jonathan Bikker et al REMBRANDT The late works 304pp. National Gallery. 35 [pounds sterling]. [...]

Constantin Brancusi, the Romanian-born, Paris-based sculptor's dsc Bird in Space, was one of the icons of the show. Constantin Brancusi: The essence of things was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum's spring exhibition of Art Deco and at the Tate Modern in Britain.

SENSING SPACES Architecture reimagined Royal Academy of Arts, until April 6 In the era of the God-like, globe-straddling starchitect, sculptural architecture represents the gold standard. For convenience, and to achieve [...]

BACON/MOORE Flesh and bone Ashmolean Museum, Oxford The fantasy 'buddy movie' involving dead visual artists with little in common was pioneered by the short-lived Prussian lawyer and aesthete, Wilhelm Wackenroder [...]

Sir,--A Sisyphean persistence marks the campaign to banish the Elgin Marbles to a clunky postmodern museum at the bottom of the Acropolis. Peter Thonemann shudders at the thought that artworks [...]

PATRICK CAULFIELD Tate Britain, until September 1 Clarrie Wallis PATRICK CAULFIELD 96pp. Tate. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 84976 127 7 One of the most scandalous statements by a modern [...]

PAPER PALACES The Topham Collection as a source for British Neo-Classicism Eton College Library, Verey Gallery, until November 1 The last quarter-century must rank as one of the nadirs in [...]

ROY LICHTENSTEIN Tate Modern, until May 27 Having seen (and read) around 160 works by Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern--the first big survey since his death--you might feel in need [...]

A BIGGER SPLASH Painting after performance Tate Modern, until April 1 The sight of stonemasons, sculptors and painters at work must always have been an object of fascination, and not [...]

Antonio Forcellino RAPHAEL A passionate Life Translated by Lucinda Byatt 260pp. Polity. 25 [pounds sterling] (US $29.95). 978 0 7456 4411 0 Raphael was the most rounded, efficient and consistently [...]

'Futurism' at Tate Modern in the UK runs until September 20, 2009, with featured paintings such as 'The City Rises,' 'The Laugh' and 'The Street Enters the House.' The exhibit comes with a catalog of the same name. Details on the beginnings of futurism and how futurists learned from Cubism's faceting and fragmentation are discussed.

Sir,--Alexander Marr (Letters, December 12) rightly observes that many scholars believe the circles in Rembrandt's Kenwood self-portrait refer to Giotto's 'O', the perfect circle he supposedly drew freehand on the [...]

Philippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford RENDEZ-VOUS WITH ART 248pp. Thames and Hudson. 19.95 [pounds sterling] (US $35). 978 0 500 23924 7 Grayson Perry PLAYING TO THE GALLERY Helping [...]

Sir,--Nearly two decades ago I reviewed a slim volume entitled Touch. Having worked extensively on the subject of touch in relation to sculpture, I was unconvinced by the intellectual and [...]

Three exhibitions are exploring the works of Michelangelo and their influence on other artists. 'Magnificenza!: The Medici, Michelangelo, and the art of late Renaissance Florence' is currently in Chicago. 'Venus and Love: Michelangelo and the new ideal of beauty' and 'Mito di Ganimede: Prima e dopo Michelangelo' are in Florence, Italy.

A description is presented of the exhibits which are on display at the Royal Academy's art exhibition entitled 'The Triumph of French Painting' and the Courtauld Galleries' art exhibition entitled 'Fauve Painting 1905-7'.