Exhibitions Look closer Monet’s eye for architecture An exhibition of his paintings of buildings teases out the contradictions in his art
Exhibitions Look closer Van Gogh’s love affair with Japan An exhibition in Amsterdam shows how Japanese art influenced his style
Exhibitions Look closer How America’s modernists played it cool An exhibition in Oxford takes us back to the birth of precisionism
Exhibitions Look closer Larger than life: four centuries of glamour Lavish costumes and striking poses are on show at the Rijksmuseum’s exhibition of full-length portraits
Exhibitions Look closer Cross-dressing: a secret history An unusual archive reminds us of a time when wearing clothes associated with the opposite sex was as radical as it was risky
Exhibitions Look closer How British artists made flesh seem fresh A potted history of figurative painting, from the 1900s to the present day
Exhibitions Look closer The Victorians who showed photography could be art Some Victorians looked down on photography. Four artists proved them wrong
Exhibitions Look closer Shining a light on the shadows What happens when photographers turn their cameras on society’s outcasts?
Exhibitions Look closer David Milne’s terra incognita The strikingly original Canadian used paint sparingly but to dramatic effect
Exhibitions Look closer Natural selection Romanticised and derided in equal measure, the countryside is the subject of an ambitious exhibition in Somerset
