Apollo

Reconstructing Monet’s private collection

Mme Monet et son fils Jean dans le jardin à Argenteuil

Monet’s hidden art collection goes public in an ambitious exhibition at the Musée Marmottan

The Apollo Awards 2017 in pictures

The winners of the Apollo Awards 2017 were announced on 21 November 2017, at Bonhams, London. Photo © Anne Schwarz

The winners of this year’s Apollo Awards – which celebrate great achievements of the art and museum worlds – were announced at a ceremony in London on Tuesday

Artist of the Year

Artist of the Year - Apollo Awards 2017 - Lubaina Himid

Lubaina Himid

Personality of the Year

Personality of the Year - Apollo Awards 2017 - Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

Digital Innovation of the Year

Digital Innovation of the Year - Apollo Awards 2017 - Smartify

Smartify

Acquisition of the Year

Acquisition of the Year - Apollo Awards 2017 - Van Otterloo and Weatherbie Promised Gift

The Van Otterloo and Weatherbie gift (MFA, Boston)

Book of the Year

Book of the Year - Apollo Awards 2017 - Clothing Art

‘Clothing Art: The Visual Culture of Fashion, 1600–1914’ by Aileen Ribeiro

Museum Opening of the Year

Museum Opening of the Year - Apollo Awards 2017 - Musée d’arts de Nantes

Musée d’arts de Nantes

Exhibition of the Year

Exhibition of the Year - Apollo Awards 2017 - 'Raphael: The Drawings'

‘Raphael: The Drawings’ at The Ashmolean, Oxford

Blaze breaks out at Santander’s modern art museum

Art news daily: 21 November

The unnerving brilliance of Alina Szapocznikow

The Bachelor’s Ashtray I (1972), Alina Szapocznikow. © ADAGP, Paris 2017. Courtesy The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow / Piotr Stanislawski / Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris. Photo: Fabrice Gousset

The Polish artist’s powerful work is finally being accorded the attention it deserves. Don’t miss the chance to see it in the UK

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

The art of the sausage roll, Terence Conran’s childhood, and Eric Cantona’s little pen and notebook

Gavin Delahunty resigns from Dallas Museum of Art

Art news daily : 20 November

Power dressing – a formidable collection of samurai armour in Dallas

Domaru tosei gusoku armour, Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615), with 19th-century lacing and brocade and menpo mask (c. 17

Gabriel and Ann Barbier-Mueller have amassed one of the most important collections of its kind in the world

There’s more to say about art since 9/11

5000 Feet is the Best (2011), Omer Fast.

The Imperial War Museum’s ‘Age of Terror’ exhibition is important, but fails to ask some key questions

How the British fell for Chinese art

The Alexander Bowl (1100–25), China, Henan prince, Ruzhou, Zhanggongxiang

The redisplay of Chinese art at the British Museum demands that we look back at a rich collecting tradition

New York Public Library reveals $317m renovation plan

New York Public Library. Mecanoo with Beyer Blinder Belle

Art news daily: 17 November

Why Vienna is too vulgar for the Victoria Line

A sorry state: Schiele on the Underground

Advertising posters bearing nude sketches by Egon Schiele were deemed too racy for London’s commuters

A potty fundraising campaigning in Salisbury

Visitors to the Salisbury Museum will be privy to a new fundraising campaign from ‘World Toilet Day’

The Danish collector with a passion for French painting

Portrait of Madame Marie Hubbard (1874), Berthe Morisot (1841–95) © Ordrupgaard Collection, Copenhagen.

Wilhelm Hansen amassed his impressive collection, now showing at the Musée Jacquemart-André, in only two years

Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ fetches $450.3m at auction

Our daily round-up of news from the art world ‘Salvator Mundi’ sells for $450.3m at Christie’s New York | Leonardo…

The sale of ‘the last Leonardo’ is a triumph for the dark art of marketing

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Salvator Mundi (c. 1500), Leonardo da Vinci. Christie's

Christie’s pulled out all the stops for the sale of ‘Salvator Mundi’ – and its efforts have more than paid off

The criminal genius of J.L. Pearson

John Loughborough Pearson

How could such a gifted architect also be responsible for such appalling ‘restoration’ jobs?

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Big bucks for a Britney Spears painting, Van Gogh’s grasshopper, and absinthe at the National Gallery