Waldemar Januszczak

His life was centred in his studio in Mornington Crescent, London. It was his world. He painted the same models and the same city scenes over and over again

An exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich explores the links between drugs and art. It’s wickedly wacky

George Shaw’s paintings in Albion Groans look small but tackle big subjects — and reveal personal pain

Ignore the outrage from those who like their old masters dark and dingy — a National Gallery facelift has given Parmigianino’s wacky altarpiece new life

In our age of unreason, the whimsical Carrington’s star is high — but does her work on display at Firstsite deserve the plaudits?

That guady fir in your living room was once a symbol of death, hope and rebirth. Meet the 250-year-old German genius Caspar David Friedrich who painted it best

We’ve been waiting an age to see how the old lady of Trafalgar Square will look after turning 200. Our art critic investigates

The ‘Queen of Art Deco’ was bisexual, lied about her age and passed herself off as a male artist— no wonder Madonna aped her shape-shifting identity

Our critic has two lifelong passions — and sometimes he combines them while admiring masterpieces by everyone from Van Dyke to Raphael

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye has de-exoticised black portraiture in paintings created with the focus of an old master