

Melanie McDonagh is a columnist, arts critic and feature writer. She covers art exhibitions and also does some leader writing, interviews and occasional beauty/fragrance features.
Melanie McDonagh is a columnist, arts critic and feature writer. She covers art exhibitions and also does some leader writing, interviews and occasional beauty/fragrance features.

PIle ’em high… and perhaps take some binoculars to see the brushstrokes in that painting 10 feet above your head

From his depictions of powerful women of the time to religious work featuring Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary, this show is just heavenly

This exhibition shows a different side to the ubiquitous Impressionists

Plutocratic loos, fake Battenberg and a very vibey piano — Melanie McDonagh gives her verdict on a tea for the super rich

75 years after Myanmar became independent of Britain, this small but interesting exhibition looks at the diversity of the region

Diana dominates the first half of the Crown's final and riskiest season

The museum's forthcoming exhibition is a chance to see fragile works that won't travel again for many years

Our coverage of Charles highlights how the country has changed in eight decades. Melanie McDonagh looks back on the making of a monarch

In just a few strokes of the brush the German painter introduces us to living, breathing human beings

Can Rishi Sunak spirit away the ghosts of yesteryear?

The museum's new show encourages us to disapprove of our preoccupation with beauty standards, but it's been part of society for ever

From the right to roam to Greenham Common, this exhibition is about access to and the ownership of land

This show doesn't quite hang together but it's full of ideas