A five-part summer series analyses the current state of the global fine art and antiques market

Manet’s Olympia and Titian’s Venus of Urbino, two paintings depicting courtesans believed to have had affairs with the artists, are finally hanging side by side

Works by Renoir, Manet, Morisot and Pissarro return to Hugh Lane Gallery

Art that isn’t good for anything can often be very good indeed

The great painters subjects were the people of Paris, and his portraits a comment on society

A terrific show at the Met in New York shows us that when it came to their painting, Renoir, Manet and Monet often started with the clothes