Bob Donlon, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Robert La Vigne and Lawrence Ferlinghetti outside City Lights bookstore, 1956 Jan 23, 2013

Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, Grey Art Gallery, New York

The ‘Howl’ poet’s images capture the poses and personalities of the Beats – and the toll exacted by alcohol and age

John BELLANY, The Box Meeting Cockenzie, 1965 Jan 21, 2013

John Bellany: A Passion for Life, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

To visit this exhibition is truly to experience a life in painting

Paula Rego Avarice 2012 Jan 20, 2013

Paula Rego: The Dame with the Goat’s Foot, Marlborough Gallery, London

This new series of work represents a particular looking back to layers of Portuguese myth and history

A Giorgio Morandi watercolour Jan 18, 2013

Giorgio Morandi, on show in London

The apparent simplicity of the artist’s work resonates in austere times, writes Jackie Wullschlager

'Chemistry of Light No 11', glass negative c1890 ©Tessa Traeger From FT MAGAZINE Jan 18, 2013

Tessa Traeger: Double alchemy

When Tessa Traeger was left a photographic legacy by a relative, what might have been a chore instead inspired a new body of work

The Eli and Edyth Broad Museum in Lansing, Michigan ©Paul Warchol From COLLECTING Jan 18, 2013

Broad looms large

Eli Broad’s latest museum on campus in Michigan is an explosion of structural invention

Harry Eyres Jan 18, 2013

The humble heroes of Cartier-Bresson

The photographer was a rare artist who had an unerring instinct and eye for what is most truly, deeply human

Juergen Teller's Pettitoe, Suffolk 2011 ©Juergen Teller Jan 18, 2013

Snapshot: ‘Pettitoe, Suffolk 2011’ by Juergen Teller

A new show at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts displays a more personal side to the German-born photographer

Roger Fenton the queens target 1860 ©Royal Collection Trust Jan 16, 2013

‘The Queen’s Target’ by Roger Fenton

This image by a pioneering Victorian photographer is both a royal souvenir and a strikingly early piece of abstract art

Cindy Sherman 3 Untitled prints ©Cindy Sherman Jan 16, 2013

‘Bus Riders’ by Cindy Sherman

This serious yet funny 1976 series prefigures everything Sherman has done since – and does not come cheap