The delicate process of writing the biography of a wary Sir Ronald Harwood

Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves

There is more to the artist than the Camden Town years of his most famous paintings

Magritte’s work is no more socially potent than dog-mess on a doorstep

Art that shocks, offends, and amuses has a purpose beyond aesthetic: its existence is a testament to freedom of expression

The new owner of Antoinette’s jewellery will not just get exquisite gems but a provenance that is equally perfect and poignant

Lucien veers between lamenting modern theatre’s disdain for “truly serious work” and suspecting that it all could have gone a great deal worse

A new book revisits the painter’s death and returns the verdict that it was suicide after all

The promise of John-Paul Stonard’s Creation is poisoned by a revisionist agenda

Serenhedd James heads to Burlington House for the RA’s summer show