Welcome to my place . . . Chicago

‘It costs nothing to ride up to the bar of the John Hancock building, but savouring the sun setting is worth the price of the beer’

‘There is only one master, Corot. We are nothing by comparison’

The world knows Corot as a great landscape artist. He kept his figure paintings secret.

Painting at New York museum sparks ‘voyeurism’ complaint

Metropolitan Museum of Art refuses to remove display of Balthus’s ‘Thérèse Dreaming’

The dirty secrets of Hollywood’s golden age

Karina Longworth’s podcast began as a calling card. It was an overnight success

Liz Carroll- Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840: a meeting of past and present

Visual art round-up: Thoughtful films about artifice and architects

Amie Siegel’s essay films are full of ideas, and Eddie Kennedy’s paintings are informed by Mayo

Maths Week: Pianist on a numerical mission

Dr Eugenia Cheng using music and the baking of cupcakes to make sense of illogical world

Family silver: the art that Ireland has lost

Almost every work in this book is US owned. The result is a monumental but melancholy survey

Dublin conference inspired by Chicago exhibition

Dublin Castle to host day-long forum which will focus on art in Ireland’s ‘Big Houses’

Exiled treasures go on display at Chicago Art Institute

A new exhibition in the US celebrates Irish art of the ‘long’ 18th century – and shows how much of our heritage has been lost to the country

Ask Joan

Springfield via Chicago, going to Herculaneum and finding specialist health insurers

Antonia Baehr: ‘I need to be able to say something when the taxi driver asks me what I do’

The German artist’s aesthetic probably lies most easily in choreography, albeit in drag

A stylish bunch: why the impressionists loved fashion

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