Michael Prodger

Also featuring The Manifesto House by Owen Hopkins and Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night by Gethan Dick.

The English painter’s relish for subcultures took him across genres and continents.

Also featuring Irascible by Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi and To Have or to Hold by Sophie Pavelle.

How the sculptor Johann Joachim Kändler made porcelain an object of desire across 18th-century Europe.

Also featuring The Dream Factory by Daniel Swift and The Fall of the House of Montagu by Robert Wainwright.

This year marks the 250th anniversary of his birth, but it was a midlife encounter with two landscapes that created the painter as we know him.

A huge retrospective gives the authorised version of this prolific artist’s career.

Also featuring Operation Bowler by Jonathan Glancey and Lesbians: Where Are We Now? by Julie Bindel.

Also featuring The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King by Christopher de Bellaigue and Waste Wars by Alexander Clapp.

Also featuring I Don’t Like Your Tie by Marc Moss-Jones and Kevin Core and The Naked Eye by Yoko Tawada.