Culture: Painting

The Ashcan Painters: beauty and brutality in American art

"Pictures from life" at the National Gallery.

Get thee from the nunnery

A landmark exhibition in London shows priceless pieces of religious art that have never before been allowed out of Spain

Turner and the Masters

The greatest landscape artist of all time

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Traveller from an antique land

Anselm Kiefer’s bleakly despairing vision causes disquiet in an art world used to in-jokes and irony

“Live Forever”

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Garden and Cosmos: the Royal Paintings of Jodhpur

A strange and shocking Indian movement is brought back to life

The eye of the beholder

A coffee-table book for aesthetes: every painting referred to in Marcel Proust's epic In Search of Lost Time, in a single volume. It reveals the novelist's acute sensitivity to art

The gilded cage

The lavish, decorative works of Gustav Klimt and his associates provided the rich and privileged few with a retreat from the problems of the Industrial Age

Painting power

Diego Velázquez was a skilled politician as well as a master artist, finds Mark Irving on a visit to the El Escorial palace near Madrid. And right, Richard Cork analyses his most famous work, the enigmatic Las Meninas

Art of staying pretty

After the ugliness of Tracey Emin's bed, contemporary art is rediscovering beauty. But, asks Charles Darwent, is it just another marketing ploy?