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Testing the waters

Artists’ portrayals of major rivers have had widespread political and social significance in the last two centuries, finds Averil King

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A celebration of ceramics

This lavish, three-volume tribute to Du Paquier porcelain is a collaborative tour-de-force, writes Philippa Glanville

Perfecting porcelain

Louise Nicholson reports on two exhibitions celebrating the tercentenary of porcelain production in Europe

The iceman cometh

Jonathan Lopez applauds the joy implicit in Hendrick Avercamp’s wintry landscapes

A consummate expressionist

A major Kirchner retrospective shows the artist’s dazzling quality, writes Paul Bonaventura

The Artist in his Studio

A thematic display shines a light on important strands in Lucian Freud’s work, writes Marco Livingstone

A neglected painter

John Russell Taylor champions the little-known British artist Adrian Ryan, whose colourful life makes for a lively biography

Grandeur and decay

Charles Latham’s photographs of Italian gardens in the early 20th century capture a bygone era, writes Judith B. Tankard

Off the shelf

Apollo’s selection of recently published books on art, architecture and the history of collecting