Acquisitions of the Month: February 2015
From the first printed bibles to contemporary Inuit sculpture and astrophotography…
Muse Reviews: 1 March
On Kawara at the Guggenheim New York; Mariana Castillo Deball at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Leon Underwood at Pallant House; Mackintosh at RIBA
Gallery: Leon Underwood at Pallant House Gallery
Underwood was best known as a sculptor, but he also created powerful paintings and prints
Art Outlook: 26 February
Art news: English Heritage to split in two; Romania’s silence over Brancusi statue sale; Cézanne sketches discovered at the Barnes Foundation
Muse Reviews: 22 February
Recent exhibition reviews and previews; from sultans, to Sturtevant, to salted paper prints…
Book Competition
‘Rubens and His Legacy: Van Dyck to Cézanne’ accompanies a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts
Art Outlook: 19 February
Sheila Girling dies aged 90; Centre Pompidou plans pop-ups; Musée Maillol closes unexpectedly, and the Whitworth reopens…
Gallery: ‘The Sultan’s World’ at BOZAR
From Botticelli to Dürer to Titian, Western artists of the Renaissance were influenced by the art and culture of the Ottoman Empire
Muse Reviews: 15 February
Jacob Epstein’s babies, revolutionary calendars, Madame Cézanne, and a suitcase full of pictures
Gallery: ‘Van Gogh to Rothko’ at Crystal Bridges Museum
A few highlights from a touring exhibition of colourful modern masterpieces
Art Outlook: 12 February
A Leonardo is seized from a vault in Switzerland; artists condemn Tania Bruguera’s detention in Cuba; and a Gauguin sells for $300 million
Muse Reviews: 8 February
Christian Marclay at White Cube; ‘Self’ at Turner Contemporary; Piero di Cosimo at the NGA Washington; Jeremy Gardiner at Victoria Art Gallery
Art Outlook: 5 February
Walter Liedtke killed in train crash; National Gallery staff strike over privatisation plans; two bronzes attributed to Michelangelo
Walter Liedtke: 1945–2015
The curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was killed in the Metro-North Valhalla train crash on Tuesday
Forum: Is the golden age of art schools over?
Are art schools in danger of turning into finishing schools for those who can afford them, or can they survive as places where students can experiment?
Muse Reviews: 1 February
Flesh and sex – the legacies of Rubens and Sade; two views of the 20th century’s torn and tattered art; and the story of Lancashire’s philanthropic industrialists
Acquisitions of the Month: January
New year, new acquistions: from Jérôme Bonaparte’s chandelier to an entire country cottage
Gallery: ‘Shatter Rupture Break’ at the Art Institute of Chicago
Fragments from an exhibition of the 20th century’s fractured art
Gallery: ‘Cotton to Gold’ at Two Temple Place
Some highlights from Two Temple Place’s latest collection of collections
Art Outlook: 29 January
Sponsorship, strikes and self-censorship in London’s top museums; the Smithsonian’s international expansion; Tutankhamun’s broken beard
Gallery: ‘Poetry of the Metropolis’ at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
A celebration of the tattered, torn and pioneering work of the Affichistes
The Week’s Muse: 21 February
London’s love of Victorian art; Gavin Stamp on the Garden Bridge; Matilda Bathurst reports from the Whitworth Art Gallery