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Picasso goes toe to toe with his unlikely hero Ingres, Moore’s primordial forms go on show in Somerset, and punk feminist Penny Goring lets rip

Great artists don’t borrow, they steal, brazenly

The show, titled simply “Paul Cezanne,” will run through Sept. 5, with 80 paintings, 37 watercolors and drawings, four watercolor boxes and other painting paraphernalia, including loans from as far away as the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.

How bountiful and benign heaven sometimes shows itself in showering upon one single person the infinite riches of its treasures, and all those graces and rarest gifts that it is wont to distribute among many individuals, over a long space of time …

If you’re gonna face a jury for a crime you’ve already confessed to — and even explained how you did it — you’d better have something going for you besides a “not guilty” plea. The real-life character of Britain’s Kempton Bunton, an amiable sexagenarian taxi driver who was acquitted of…

Tranquil saints and sultry beauties populate an unmissable exhibition of the elusive Renaissance master’s work

Letters: Symphony No 2 is usually dubbed the ‘Little Russian’, but was once nicknamed the ‘Ukrainian symphony’, writes Edward Wilson. Plus Jeremy Muldowney on a young Polish artist’s national pride

A Raphael exhibition to convince sceptics, NY minimalist Rosemarie Castoro, spectacular colour from Sheila Hicks and Japanese art with a royal flavour – all in your weekly dispatch

The long-awaited blockbuster exhibition finally opens at the National Gallery, and it’s an onslaught of beauty