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Shifting sensibilities – how plein-air painting became all the rage

Carl Frederik Sørensen

Once overlooked by both artists and collectors, the urgency of landscape studies holds an obvious appeal for modern audiences

What artists are really doing when they take up residencies

Helen Frankenthaler studio visit

Recent initiatives are expanding on the traditional model of patronage through community engagement, cross-disciplinary collaboration and mentorship schemes

At the Brent Biennial, home really is where the heart is

Installation view of ‘darning and other times’ (2022) and ‘In the House of my Love’ (2022) at the Brent Biennial.

The second edition of the event concerns itself with ideas of belonging – and revels in the diversity of this part of north-west London

Acquisitions of the Month: July 2022

Two significant works by Renaissance masters to the National Gallery in London are among this month’s highlights

The week in art news – Met director Max Hollein to take on chief executive role as well

Max Hollein, president and soon-to-be CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Plus: new appointments at the National Gallery of Ireland and RIBA, Design Miami Paris cancelled amid security fears, and Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan museum

Who will stand up for Antony Gormley’s art?

portrait of antony gormley

The students at Imperial College London are objecting to the sculptor’s ‘phallic’ new sculpture, proving that an outsize reputation isn’t everything

Ishiuchi Miyako

Stills gallery in Edinburgh hosts the Japanese post-war photographer’s first solo exhibition in Scotland

John McLean: Flare

Colourful works by the late abstract painter are the focus of The Fine Art Society’s exhibition

Céline Condorelli / After Work

The London-based artist’s first major survey features recent installation works and a collaborative film project

Daniel Silver: Looking

An expectant audience of ceramic busts forms the centrepiece of David Silver’s solo exhibition at the Fruitmarket gallery in Edinburgh

Henry Moore’s hoarding habits

The Arch Henry Moore

The British sculptor’s monumental, minimal forms drew influence from his wide-ranging collection of ethnographic artefacts

The photographers who are obsessed with the passing of time in Turkey

Rock slump from the cliffs of Sarikaya, near Yesilbaskoy. In antiquity, Sarikya was one of the main limestone quarries providing ancient Sagalossos with stone building materials.

Bruno Vandermeulen and Danny Veys use 19th-century processes to bring a very modern sensibility to archaeological sites in Anatolia

In the studio with… Mariana Castillo Deball

Mariana Castillo Deball studio portrait

The Mexican artist’s studio is filled with books and tiny pieces of detritus that have fallen off her artworks or that she finds on her travels

How Vernon Lee kept her finger on the pulse of gallery-goers

Vernon Lee (1881), John Singer Sargent. Tate collection

Long before the invention of the visitor-response survey, the writer was curious about how works of art affected their viewers

Robert Indiana: Sculpture 1958–2018

The Yorkshire Sculpture Park looks beyond the ‘LOVE’ sculptures to explore Indiana’s long and varied career

Tracey Emin: I Lay Here For You

I Lay Here For You (2018), Tracey Emin.

The artist’s intimate and revealing sculptures are tucked away among the woodlands of Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh

Wangechi Mutu

(2022), Wangechi Mutu.

The Kenyan-born artist’s fantastical bronzes are set amid rolling hills of the Storm King Art Center in New York

As Long as the Sun Lasts

Alex Da Corte’s whimsical construction takes up residence on the Louisiana’s terrace

The week in art news – Cecil Rhodes plaque in Oxford gets listed status

Not falling any time soon: plaque dedicated to Cecil Rhodes in King Edward Street, adjacent to Oriel College, Oxford.

Plus: Long-running dispute between Dmitry Rybolovlev and Yves Bouvier enters new phase and British geologist’s conviction for smuggling antiquities overturned

Beyoncé remixes the Renaissance

The cover of Beyonce's latest album, ‘Renaissance', by photographer Carlin Jacobs

The pop star’s latest album contains fewer treats for art-history buffs than its title promises – but Rakewell is too busy dancing to care

Tall tale: Gustave Eiffel and his tower get the big-screen treatment

Romain Duris in ‘Eiffel’.

Romain Duris cuts a dash in a lavish French film about the engineer, but it’s the tower that’s the true star

The art of bodysnatching in Edinburgh

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Willem Röell (1728), Cornelis Troost. Amsterdam Museum

There’s no disguising the gruesomeness of the trade that underpinned the scientific advances of the 18th century

How Raphael gave the Virgin Mary more to do

The Tempi Madonna (1508), Raphael. Alte Pinakothek, Munich

In the works of Raphael the Virgin Mary often plays a more active and more joyful role than she is allowed by other artists

The contemporary artists who are paying their respects to Piranesi

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (after Piranesi) (2016), Emily Allchurch.

Piranesi may have fallen out with his Irish patron but, in modern-day Dublin, artists inspired by his example are looking to mend fences