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Dual purpose – passion and reason in the art of Nicolas Poussin

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The Nurture of Jupiter (c. 1639), Nicolas Poussin. Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

A new study emphasises the marriage of thought and feeling in the painter’s work

Homeschooling with Danny Dyer

BBC Bitesize has announced that Danny Dyer and Sergio Agüero are among the celebrities joining its homeschooling programme. But who’s going to teach art?

The modern artists who made the most of isolation

Detail of photograph of (left to right) Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Sonia Delaunay, and Jean (Hans) Arp in Grasse in 1942.

Sequestered in a French chateau in the 1940s, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Jean Arp, Sonia Delaunay and Alberto Magnelli joined forces to create the ‘Album Grasse’

When the medium is the messenger – the art of communicating with spirits

Octagonal Drawing (1976), Ann Churchill.

From Victorian spiritualists to contemporary practitioners, there is a long history of art – and drawing in particular – taking an interest in the unseen

Spiders and soaring sculptures – Tomás Saraceno in Florence

Installation view of ‘Tomás Saraceno: Aria’ at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence.

An exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi positions the wildly ambitious artist as a Renaissance man for our times

It’s high time art businesses beefed up their cybersecurity

Photo: Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images

Two art lawyers look at the simple steps businesses can take to protect themselves and their clients from online scams

Material benefits – ‘Picasso and Paper’, reviewed

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Femmes à leur toilette (1937–38), Pablo Picasso.

The pleasure Picasso took in paper as a medium was palpable in the Royal Academy’s recent show

Pinault collection opening in Paris postponed to spring 2021

The Bourse de Commerce in Paris.

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A cultural tour of Jon Snow’s bookshelves

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Rakewell has been eyeing up the broadcaster’s learned library while watching Channel 4 News

Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall

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Launched in 2008, this extensive digital archive of concerts and films is now accessible via a free 30-day subscription

Jazz at Lincoln Center

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.

The Manhattan-based organisation is digging out concerts from its archives – and has pulled together a brand-new virtual gala

#OurHousetoYourHouse

Scene from The Winter's Tale performed at the Royal Opera House, London, 2014.

Opera, ballet and a socially distanced rendition of the ‘Hallelujah’ chorus from Handel’s ‘Messiah’ – from the Royal Opera House to your house

Ragnar Kjartansson’s Bonjour

Bonjour (2015), Ragnar Kjartansson. Installation view at MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, 2020.

A five-minute vignette repeated on a loop for 12 hours – and now available in six two-hour-long videos from the MAMbo in Bologna

How photography has shaped our experience of pandemics

Shropshire Regiment ‘Whitewash Brigade’ emptying items from Chinese homes in Taipingshan, Hong Kong, and burning them on the street as an epidemic control measure during the 1894 plague outbreak.

From lockdowns to mass burials, the ways we visualise Covid-19 were established by photographers in the late 19th century

Minimal effort – ‘The Longing for Less’ by Kyle Chayka, reviewed

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A view of ‘15 untitled works in concrete’ by Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas, in 2012. Photo: Scott Halleran/Getty Images

This hard-to-classify book brings together Donald Judd, Japanese aesthetics, and the aspirations of contemporary lifestyle bloggers

Artists on the books keeping them company in isolation

From Nikolai Gogol to Susan Sontag, Joan Didion to Olga Tokarczuk: the authors inspiring artists during a time of lockdown

Getty postpones all public events until after end of August

The Getty Center.

Art news daily: 14 April

Shetland cattle and sparkling sculptures – on Yorkshire Sculpture Park in lockdown

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Wilsis (2016), Jaume Plensa, installation view at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

The director of programme at YSP outlines the unique challenges – and consolations – of shuttering the site

Lads and lobsters – John Minton’s food illustrations

Wrap-around dust jacket designed by John Minton for Elizabeth David’s A Book of Mediterranean Food (1950)

The artist’s designs for Elizabeth David’s cookery books evoke a happy world of fine living and dining

Fashion forward – the dashing designs of Antoine Watteau

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Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera (1717), Antoine Watteau. Musée du Louvre, Paris, Photo: © Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-Grand Palais

The artist’s fashion etchings hint at the delight in transient pleasures that is so evident in his paintings

How artists in Kyoto made contemplative work in turbulent times

Hanging scroll depicting the goddess Dakini (detail; 14th century), Japan. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Met’s display of 14 centuries of work from the longtime artistic centre of Japan gives plenty of pause for thought

Curatorial cocktails at the Frick

The curators at the Frick are to brighten up cocktail hour in Manhattan – and Rakewell is already pouring himself a drink

Survey warns a third of French galleries may close before 2021

The empty Tuileries in Paris during the lockdown in April 2020.

Art news daily: 9 April

22nd Biennale of Sydney: Nirin

Stitching (Up) the Sea Latai Taumoepeau

From Spotify playlists to communal cookathons, there are a host of ways to experience the biennial at home