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The creative curating of Walter Hopps

The Menil Collection in Houston looks at the groundbreaking work of a curator who brought a new generation of American artists into museums

What Handel liked to hang on his walls

Three hundred years after the composer moved into his London townhouse, what does the art collection he amassed there tell us about his music?

Self awareness – Alice Neel at the Barbican, reviewed

The painter who never stopped seeing her subjects as individuals described her works as ‘pictures of people’ rather than ‘portraits’

The saving of St Mary-le-Strand

Pedestrianisation means that one of London’s finest churches is now the centre of attention again

What to see at TEFAF New York

Verena Loewensberg

The fair returns to Manhattan with a strong focus on designers, women artists, new discoveries and forgotten stories

The magpie eye of Giovanni Bellini

The Musée Jacquemart-André shows that the painter was always open to new influences

The unnerving appeal of wax figures

wax figurine of a girl lying down

From votive offerings to anatomical models, wax is the perfect material for blurring the boundaries between art and life

The modern potter who was devoted to Delft

ceramic depiction of Gilbert & George

When Simon Pettet moved into Dennis Severs’ House in Spitalfields he began to channel the 18th century in the 1980s

‘Sydney Modern must be given time to evolve’

The Art Gallery of New South Wales’s extension is too populist and commercially minded for some – but it is full of possibilities

Do photography collections in the UK need more focus?

Diane Smyth considers the state of private and public photography collections in the UK

The family vineyard where art grows between the vines

Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s sculpture garden in Piedmont is also home to the family rosé

How New York took over the art world

After decades of globalisation, the centre of gravity is shifting back to the Big Apple

Pop go the prices for Roy Lichtenstein’s works on paper

Drawings, prints and collages were important to the artist’s process – and the market now values them accordingly

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith remakes America

The artist who has long campaigned for the recognition of Native American artists is changing how we look at the art of the United States

Are artists getting screwed over by galleries and museums?

A new report shows that most practitioners are still working for love rather than fair pay

Unhappy medium – the pensive watercolours of Richard Foster Yarde

watercolour painting of a girl in a kitchen

The American artist’s melancholy approach is part of a much punchier tradition says Elisa Germán, co-curator of a show at Harvard Art Museums

Around the galleries – Frieze New York thinks globally and locally

After scaling down during the pandemic, the fair is welcoming new international exhibitors while maintaining links closer to home

Beneath the surface of Photorealism

The genre has often been dismissed as a kind of copying – but at their best, these paintings make us look again at the act of looking

Andy Warhol’s textiles are finally back in fashion

Painstaking sleuthing has tracked down the artist’s colourful commercial designs for garment manufacturers

Live like Kendall Roy, if you have $29m to spare (or like Roman for $38m)

Succession fans with millions to spend can now live like the Roy brother of their choice (as ever, that doesn’t include Connor)

The week in art news – Texan princess evicted from 16th-century Roman villa

Plus: photographer turns down Sony prize after winning with AI-generated image and Artcurial expands into Switzerland

Baroque in Florence

The Bozar in Brussels shows that in Florence, the style was considerably more refined than in Rome

Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me

The film-maker’s lyrical explorations of race and cultural history go on show at Tate Britain

A Century of Dining Out: The American Story in Menus, 1841–1941

The Grolier Club serves up a feast of menus that tell us much about changing social mores