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Our critic was engrossed by drawings from the French Revolution early in the year. Then Russia invaded Ukraine, and recast art in a hard new light.

BEWARE THE DECORATIVE EXCESS that leads to violent revolution. At once aesthetic and political, this cautionary tale provides the standard explanation for the relationship between the exuberant usable arts of the Rococo and the stern history paintings of classicism, as well as between monarchy and modern democracy. It is now on persuasive display at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, in two exhibitions: “Inspiring Walt Disney: the Animation of French Decorative Arts,” and “Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman.”  As I entered the “Disney” exhibition, I overheard a caretake...

You are young, you brim with ambition, you want to change the world; you are an artist. You’ve been admitted to your field’s most prestigiou

The artist rarely showed the drawings that made his revolutionary paintings possible, but the Met is finally putting them centre stage, writes Michael Prodger

A landmark exhibition of drawings at the Met brings us into the studio of the French Revolution’s chief propagandist, and stages the ultimate showdown of culture and politics.