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She also mistook the Adam in Michelangelo's famous painting for David.

“RIP Michelangelo, you would have loved Jeremy Allen White.”

The Guardian’s art critic casts a meticulous and joyful eye over western art’s big bang

Yoko Ono’s cheeky pieces, a gut punch from Goya and the National’s centenary celebrations will fill the UK’s galleries, while the Louvre’s architect takes his moment in the sun in this stupendous year

Mutant Mayhem director Jeff Rowe teased how Shredder will be a much more frightening villain compared to Ice Cube's Superfly.

National Gallery, LondonFrancesco Pesellino died young and this show only fills a single room. But it’s a room bursting with life, where bold, radical colours bloom in narrative scenes crammed with activity

Just four at a time, visitors soon will be allowed access to a long-hidden space inside Florence’s Medici Chapel where delicate charcoal drawings sketched on the walls have been attributed by some experts to Michelangelo

From the end of Antiquity (5th century CE) until about 1250, image-makers were more or less anonymous craftspeople. Traditional images from the Byzantine world dominated art in this period. When it came to art, what mattered was the skilful repetition of familiar icons, a model that left little room for…

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

From nuns to nobles, the Flemish artist loved painting unclothed women. But, as this staggering exhibition reveals, there’s so much more to him than frolicking nudes

There’s a Constable in the living room, the Turner prize in Eastbourne and a sensual statuette at the Wallace – all in your weekly dispatch