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The week in art news – Macklowe collection sells for record-breaking $922m

Sotheby’s Oliver Barker fields bids during the second Macklowe collection sale on 16 May 2022. Courtesy Sotheby's.

Plus: Angus Grossart has died at the age of 85 | Brazilian curator resigns amid MASP controversy | Protest takes place outside the Whitney | Ukrainian soldiers discover ancient artefacts in Odessa

Are all the V&A’s chickens coming home to roost?

Rakewell laments what has been a rather dismal week for the Grande Dame of South Kensington, involving the UK government and a Russian-owned Fabergé egg

The Portable Universe: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia

Bird finial, early Zenú (200 BC–1000 CE). Colombia Caribbean Lowlands. Museo del Oro, Banco de la Repúblic, Bogotá

LACMA explores the enduring relevance of ancient Colombian cultures and art for Indigenous cultures today

Dorothy Iannone

(detail; 1973) Dorothy Iannone. Berlinische Galeries - Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture. Photo: Anja Elisabeth Witte/Berlinische Galerie; © Dorothy Iannone

The American artist’s riotously sexual, psychedelic works go on display at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe

(1957), Imogen Cunningham. Courtesy David Zwirner; © 2022 Imogen Cunningham Trust/2021 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc./ARS, NY and DACS, London.

Modern Art Oxford looks at the origins of the artist’s signature hanging sculptures

The Scottish artist who liked to be beside the seaside

The seaside scenes of Willie Rodger aren’t necessarily a sunny affair, but they are always full of life

The Apollo Awards podcast: Sam Spike on collecting NFTs

Art historian Sam Spike speaks to Gabrielle Schwarz about how non-fungible tokens have transformed collecting and why not everything needs to be minted

The Apollo Awards podcast: Sofia Garcia on the NFT market

Sofia Garcia

The founder of digital gallery ARTXCODE speaks to Gabrielle Schwarz about different types of NFT and the role of the curator within the digital space

The Apollo Awards podcast: Rafaël Rozendaal on creating NFTs

The Dutch-Brazilian artist Rafaël Rozendaal speaks to Gabrielle Schwarz about the freedom of making art on the internet and the process of minting NFTs

Gilane Tawadros named as Whitechapel Gallery’s new director

Gilane Tawadros will become the gallery’s tenth director, following in the footsteps of Iwona Blazwick who stepped down, after 20 years, in April 2022

Immaterial girl – Madonna enters the metaverse

Madonna was once NSFW. Now, thanks to Beeple, she has turned herself into an NFT

Give and Take: Photos upon Photos

Glass Life (detail; 2021), Sara Cwynar. The Approach, London and Foxy Production, New York; © Sara Cwynar

The Hamburger Kunsthalle looks at 20 contemporary artists who incorporate archival materials into their work

This week in art news – Warhol’s Blue Marilyn sells for $195m

Plus: Deane Lawson wins Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2022 and Art Fund announces Museum of the Year shortlist

Cornelia Parker

The sculptor’s fantastical installations made from mundane things are celebrated in this retrospective at Tate Britain

Cezanne

(detail; c. 1875), Paul Cézanne.

A blockbuster in Chicago explores every facet of the post-Impressionist’s career

Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic

The British Museum explores 5,000 years of cultural conceptions about women

In the studio with… Larry Bell

Larry Bell

The American artist divides his time between Venice Beach and New Mexico, with one studio in a church and the other in a former commercial laundry

All photographs are products of their time – and they should be treated that way

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Turning black and white photos into colour – and vice versa – can be a harmless piece of fun, but the results can also mess with our sense of the past

Risky business – why is New York getting rid of auction regulations?

The city claims that its decision to loosen the rules governing art auctions seeks to create a more consumer-friendly environment – but how can it?

Making light with Raine Storey

Raine Storey

Drawing influence from her grandfather, the Canadian artist paints large scale, Surrealist-inspired scenes that highlight the humour of the everyday

Roy Keane’s long road to respectability

Portrait of Roy Keane (2020), Toby Michael. © the artist

The winning entry in the inaugural Football Art Prize depicts Roy Keane in sombre mood, but Rakewell still treasures the player-turned-pundit’s more devilish side

New Objectivity

Sekretärin beim Westdeutschen Rundfunk in Köln (detail; 1931), August Sander.

August Sander’s ‘People of the 20th Century’ project seems as modern as ever – as does so much of the art of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement

Magali Reus: A Sentence in Soil

The London-based sculptor continues to put her personal stamp upon mass-produced objects

Glyn Philpot: Flesh and Spirit

Glyn Philpot Acrobats

Philpot was fêted as a society painter in his own day, but Pallant House focuses on his more radical side