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Getting the words ‘impressionism’ and ‘modern art’ into one exhibition title is a stroke of marketing genius on the part of the National Gallery, but is it too much for a single blockbuster? Symbolism, cloisonnisme, pointillism, expressionism, cubism, abstraction: if impressionism was a watershed in modern art, the streams that flowed from it were many

After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art explores the period in modern art from 1886 to the eve of the First World War in 1914.

Art review by Sarah Kent

Cézanne outshines Van Gogh, with Picasso his revolutionary pupil, in this absorbing hurtle toward modern art – smashing 500 years of tradition into cubist shards

In The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, the German poet’s only novel, a young artist contends with the contradictions of urban experience and the dream of pastoral life 

We feel these paintings and drawings are meaningful in the deepest sense, in a way the artist himself can’t explain

These mysterious paintings are so powerful that the acclaimed Australian artist barely seems to be in control of his subjects.

These mysterious paintings are so powerful that the acclaimed Australian artist barely seems to be in control of his subjects.

These mysterious paintings are so powerful that the acclaimed Australian artist barely seems to be in control of his subjects.

Despite two decades having passed since Belgium switched from its national currency to the euro, people are still finding old Belgian francs and bringing them into banks to be exchanged.