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Lavish tapestries and pious paintings – Bernard van Orley weaves his magic in Brussels

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The Statue of the Virgin Welcomed with Great Pomp in Brussels (1516–18), unknown Brussels workshop, after a design by Bernard van Orley.

The Flemish master, whose workshop was one of the busiest in 16th-century Brussels, gets his first major survey in the city of his birth

Flowers, hyenas and haunted hotels – the surreal world of Dorothea Tanning

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1943), Dorothea Tanning. Tate Collection.

The Tate’s survey of Tanning’s long career testifies to her lifelong commitment to Surrealism

UniCredit to sell part of its corporate art collection

Jean-Pierre Muster, chief executive of Unicredit, Unicredit

Art news daily: 10 May

Acquisitions of the month: April 2019

Modèle assise dans un fauteuil, se coiffant (detail; c. 1903), Édouard Vuillard.

Paintings, prints and a vast video panorama – the best works of art to enter public collections recently

Archaeologists reveal major Anglo-Saxon burial chamber findings

Drinking vessels with decorated gold neck in-situ.

Art news daily: 9 May

Behind the curtain – it’s time William Larkin finally got his due

Richard Sackville (1589–1624), 3rd Earl of Dorset (detail; 1613), William Larkin. English Heritage, Kenwood.

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of the great English court painter, long known only as the ‘Curtain Master’

The legacy of Alberto Burri burns bright – at home in Umbria, and in Venice

Rosso Plastica M3 (1961), Alberto Burri. © Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri, Città di Castello

Some 50 works by the enigmatic artist have travelled from his hometown to Venice this summer

Camping it up, art history-style

The celebs cooked up some outrageous costumes for the Met Gala – and as ever, it seems that a few of them have been studying their art history

Missing piece of Stonehenge returned after 60 years

Archaeological excavations at Stonehenge in 1958.

Art news daily: 8 May

David Salle puts a new spin on history painting

The Rain Fell Everywhere (2018), David Salle.

The painter’s witty and deceptively effortless works combine high and low culture to enjoyable effect

Venice in furs – an Inuit collective at the Biennale

Still from the digital video installation One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (2019), by Isuma, the central work in the Canadian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.

The Isuma collective’s new film draws on the history of coerced relocation of Inuit communities in Canada

Saatchi Gallery covers up works after complaints from Muslim visitors

The Saatchi Gallery in London.

Art news daily: 7 May

Stepping back in time at Palazzo Grimani in Venice

Installation view of ‘DOMUS GRIMANI 1594–2019’ in the Sala della Tribuna in Palazzo Grimani, Venice, 2019. Photo: Matteo De Fina. Courtesy Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities – Polo Museale del Veneto

Returning the Grimani sculpture collection to its dramatic 16th-century setting feels like a dream, says Toto Bergamo Rossi

Bowled over – the painted pots of the ancient Mimbres people

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Left: Painted bowl with geometric design and possible flower images, Classic Mimbres period (1000–1130), New Mexico. Right: Painted bowl with composite animal figure, Classic Mimbres period (1000–1130).

Around a thousand years ago in the American Southwest, a highly sophisticated ceramic tradition emerged

What not to miss at the 58th Venice Biennale

Installation view of Synchronicity (2018) at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tsuyoshi Hisakado.

From Ralph Rugoff’s main exhibition to the 35 national pavilions, there’s lots to see – so here are the expected highlights

Warsaw goes bananas!

Banana-eating protestors surrounded the National Museum in Warsaw last week, after a video showing a woman consuming the fruit was removed from display

The great Renaissance cover-up

Ve*us and Cu*id.

Titian and Bronzino have incurred the wrath of a librarian at a Baptist college in Florida

The landscape painters who invented Norway

Spring Evening, Akerhus Fortress (1913), Harald Sohlberg.

Harald Sohlberg and Edvard Munch inherited a lively tradition that helped define the new nation

Turner Prize cuts ties with Stagecoach

Turner Contemporary, Margate, photo: Carlos Dominquez

Art news daily : 3 May

Andrea del Verrocchio steps out of the shadow of his star pupil

Left: Madonna with the Laughing Child (c. 1472), attrib. Leonardo da Vinci. Photo: © Victorian and Albert Museum, London. Right: Bust of a Lady (Lady with Flowers) (c. 1475), Andrea del Verrocchio. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence. Photo: Giovanni Martellucci

The Florentine master, who took Leonardo as an apprentice, was perhaps the most influential artist of his day

Newly discovered sketch of Leonardo to go on display

Detail of a sketch of Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1517–18), by an assistant of Leonardo, Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019

Art news daily : 2 May

Oil slick – the smooth dealings of Calouste Gulbenkian

Where both petroleum and art were concerned, the 20th-century tycoon positioned himself for rich pickings

‘Wrightsman quality’ – a tribute to Jayne Wrightsman

Jayne Wrightsman, photographed by Cecil Beaton for Vogue in 1963.

The collector’s gifts of important Old Masters and outstanding French furniture transformed the Met

Turner Prize shortlist announced amid sponsor controversy

Turner Contemporary in Margate.

Art news daily: 1 May