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Muse Reviews: 15 February

Jacob Epstein’s babies, revolutionary calendars, Madame Cézanne, and a suitcase full of pictures

First Look: ‘Van Gogh to Rothko’ at Crystal Bridges Museum

Manuela Well-Off-Man introduces a travelling show of masterworks from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Gallery: ‘Van Gogh to Rothko’ at Crystal Bridges Museum

A few highlights from a touring exhibition of colourful modern masterpieces

The Week’s Muse: 14 February

Hiroshi Sugimoto on fossils and photos; In praise of postcards; The unlikely success of Fig-2; Five highlights from the Wadsworth; Tàpies in focus

‘Lore Krüger: A Suitcase Full of Pictures’ at C/O Berlin

Lore Krüger’s work is a fantastic discovery for the history of photography

Seeing Like A Camera: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto talks to Thessaly La Force about how his art collection influences his work

Art Outlook: 12 February

A Leonardo is seized from a vault in Switzerland; artists condemn Tania Bruguera’s detention in Cuba; and a Gauguin sells for $300 million

Work in Focus: ‘Matèria rosada’ by Antoni Tàpies

PAMM curator Tobias Ostrander chooses one key painting from the new Tàpies retrospective in Miami

Travelling Treasures: The Frick Collection at the Mauritshuis

Masterpieces from New York’s Frick Collection travel to The Hague

The Lady Vanishes: ‘Madame Cézanne’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

No pairing of artist and muse was more complicated, ambivalent, or more richly productive

The Postcard Collector

Sophie Hill celebrates the postcard in a series of pop-up displays of pocket-sized art

Pure abstraction: ‘Sotto Voce’ and the appeal of the abstract white relief

London’s Dominique Lévy Gallery looks again at the 20th-century trend

Five favourites from the Wadsworth Atheneum’s new galleries

Curator Patricia Hickson selects some personal highlights

Revolutionary whimsy: ‘Ruth Ewan: Back to the Fields’ at Camden Arts Centre

Is the artist’s latest show anything more than a charming tribute to a failed experiment?

Family Man: the Foundling Museum presents another side to Jacob Epstein

A candid look at the artist’s portraits of his children

Review: Agostino Bonalumi at Mazzoleni Art, London

Bonalumi was a pivotal figure in post-war Italian abstraction; finally he’s getting the attention he deserves

Fig-2 at the ICA: a rehashed pop-up exhibition that somehow works

Fifty exhibitions in as many weeks; this revival of the ‘fig-1’ project from 15 years ago is a surprising success

Muse Reviews: 8 February

Christian Marclay at White Cube; ‘Self’ at Turner Contemporary; Piero di Cosimo at the NGA Washington; Jeremy Gardiner at Victoria Art Gallery

The Week’s Muse: 7 February

Previews from the new February issue: Is the golden age of art schools over? What can be done to protect cultural property in war zones? Does art still have a sense of mystery?

Rule Breaker: Lynda Benglis

As a survey of Lynda Benglis’s work opens at the Hepworth Wakefield, the artist talks to Imelda Barnard about her 40-year career

Book Competition

Your chance to win ‘Eduardo Paolozzi’, by Judith Collins

Comings and goings: Paolozzi and public art

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It’s not just Paolozzi’s mosaics that have come under threat in recent years. Is it time for a public catalogue of such items?

Art Outlook: 5 February

Walter Liedtke killed in train crash; National Gallery staff strike over privatisation plans; two bronzes attributed to Michelangelo

Walter Liedtke: 1945–2015

The curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was killed in the Metro-North Valhalla train crash on Tuesday