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A recently identified painting by Guercino and a series of Joseph Cornell boxes are among the most significant works to have entered public collections last month
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The South African photographer believes that an artist’s studio can be a hotel room, a playground, a kitchen, a toilet – or even a crime scene
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The Courtauld Gallery is exhibiting a series of large-scale charcoal heads, drawn when Auerbach was in London in the 1950s and ‘60s
Pictures made using computer software designed by the late American artist go on display at the Whitney
The Mauritshuis is displaying work by the Dutch Golden Age painter – the first to depict the dodo and the earliest known Dutch artist to produce a floral still life
The details of this fine woodblock show there’s even more to a majestic print of a 19th-century courtesan than meets the eye – if you know how to look
The Musée du Quai Branly is displaying an immersive installation that honours the Punu mourners of Gabon
