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Portrait of King Charles III by Jonathan Yeo (Credit: Jonathan Yeo Studio)

What the butterfly in the King's portrait means

By Kelly Grovier

Brightly coloured photo of woman sunbathing wearing goggles (Credit: Martin Parr)

The photographs that skewer British peculiarities

By Deborah Nicholls-Lee

The Hay Wain by John Constable (Credit: Getty Images)

This iconic English painting is not what it seems

By Deborah Nicholls-Lee

A portrait of US artist Jeffrey Gibson in front of one of his works

The Native artist mixed about representing the US

By Kate Nelson

Berthe Morisot's The Cradle, which was key to Impressionism

The overlooked painting that unlocks Impressionism

By Kelly Grovier

Artwork by Faith Ringgold showing American flag with black female figure and stripes bleeding

Faith Ringgold: Questioning the American Dream

By Arwa Haider

British Pop artist Peter Blake sitting in front of book shelf (Credit: Luke Andrew Walker)

Peter Blake on his 'last necessary show'

By Lucy Davies

Banksy's mural works better when viewed from a distance (Credit: Getty Images)

The key to unlocking Banksy's latest mural

By Fiona Macdonald

Amy Sherald artwork

The powerful paintings reframing black experience

By Tara Okeke

Yoko Ono

The childhood WW2 trauma that inspired Yoko Ono

By Precious Adesina

Oprah Winfrey by Shawn Michael Warren (2023) (Credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)

What the purple dress in Oprah's portrait means

By Kelly Grovier

Hans Holbein the Younger's portrait of Anne of Cleves

The masterpieces that helped Henry VIII pick wives

By Deborah Nicholls-Lee

Human Erosion in California (Migrant Mother) by Dorothea Lange

10 of the most iconic portraits from a lost US

By Cath Pound

Portrait of Isabella de' Medici (1574)

How a 1574 portrait was made 'Insta-fabulous'

By Kelly Grovier

Portrait of Ena Wertheimer by John Singer Sargent (Credit: Museum of Fine Arts Boston)

The painting that flouted sexual norms

By Cath Pound

Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven

The scandalous queens of 1910s New York

By Cath Pound