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How Compton Verney stays ahead of the flock
Now 20 years old, the country house museum in Warwickshire has developed a distinctive approach to collecting – and it’s paying off handsomely
Acquisitions of the Month: March 2024
A Poussin Last Supper and a rare oil painting by Remedios Varo are among the most exciting works to have entered public collections over the last month
Who’s afraid of immersive art?
Do digital techniques to enliven familiar paintings help or hinder our understanding of the art at hand?
How to eat beans in the baroque style
A rustic painting by Annibale Carracci highlights how the act of eating in art has long been tied to class and status
What’s next for the Met?
As the Metropolitan Museum of Art enters a new era, its past decisions are still sending ripples into the present, so what does the future hold?
Rembrandt’s sorrowful Jeremiah shows the painter at his best
Koen Bulckens of the Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp explains what makes the painter’s portrait of ‘the weeping prophet’ such an emotional tour de force
Roger Hilton’s appetite for destruction
The painter’s desire for food and drink can be traced throughout a collection of obsessive shopping lists dotted with drawings
How to revive your gothic chapel
Joe Tilson’s stained-glass window in Midlothian was one of his last works and suffuses a 15th-century place of worship with just a hint of grooviness
Acquisitions of the Month: February 2024
A Chardin still life and a pair of wooden sculptures from medieval Japan are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
Parma’s museum multiplex is now even harder to miss
The Palazzo della Pilotta contains three museums, a historic library and one of the oldest theatres in Europe – but, until its recent refurbishment, has often been overlooked
Lynda Benglis’s wearable sculptures are a perfect fit
There’s a thin but fluid line between fine art and fashion for the artist who is now making accessories for Loewe
The sentimental side of Angelica Kauffman
In the 18th century, Europe was swept by a trend for art that revealed the inner lives of its subjects – and the Swiss painter encapsulated the ideas of the age
The Georgian avant-gardists who embraced the past
The country’s short-lived independence in the early 20th century gave birth to a thrilling artistic movement that is only now being rediscovered
Valentine’s Day is no feast for food lovers
Why are there no dishes or treats traditionally associated with Valentine’s Day? The answer lies in shifts in farming and changing beliefs about food
Acquisitions of the Month: January 2024
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
Holidaying with the Habsburgs
Every summer, the emperor Franz Josef celebrated his birthday in the ‘earthly paradise’ of Bad Ischl, now a European Capital of Culture
Pleasure-seeking in Edo-period Japan
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 craft of carving from thorns, in the flesh
As an exhibition at the Hunterian in Glasgow shows, the miniature sculptures of the Nigerian artist Justus Akeredolu are a major achievement
The HR crisis hobbling Italian museums
While the appointment or dismissal of directors makes headlines, chronic understaffing is a much more fundamental problem
For Howard Hodgkin, collecting was as important as painting
The artist amassed one of the finest private collections of Indian court paintings, an activity that preoccupied him as much as making art
The art museum in Athens that is making a feminist stand
For one year, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens has an all-female display of works from its collection and an all-female programme
The untamed art of Théodore Géricault
Two hundred years after the painter’s death, his work still has the power to shock and his life remains shrouded in mystery
Forces of Will: Building Chicago – a comic by Claire Barliant
After the demolition of some of Chicago’s best architecture, what lies in store for postmodernist landmark the James R. Thompson Center now that Google owns it?
Acquisitions of the Month: December 2023
A miniature copy of the Apollo Belvedere and a Mesoamerican jade statuette are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
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