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Frieze week highlights: petrol-can pastiches and chopped-up Shostakovich

William Kentridge

Romuald Hazoumè’s latest ‘masques bidons’ focus on global figures whose ‘masks’ were stripped off by the revelations of the Panama and Pandora Papers – plus more shows not to miss this year

In the studio with…. Soheila Sokhanvari

Soheila Sokhanvari

The Iranian artist takes time to settle into her space in the mornings and then becomes so immersed in her work that she forgets about lunch completely

Frieze week highlights: Alice Neel and Victor Willing

Alice Neel

An exhibition of Alice Neel’s portraits and abstract works by Victor Willing are among the shows we’re looking forward to seeing this year

Frieze week highlights: Amy Sherald and Craig Murray-Orr

Amy Sherald

Amy Sherald’s striking portraits and Craig Murray-Orr’s postcard-sized paintings are among the highlights to see this year

The Legend of King Arthur: A Pre-Raphaelite Love Story

The exhibition at the William Morris Gallery explores how Arthurian folklore captured the imaginations of Victorian artists

Picasso/Chanel

Untitled (Harlequin and Pulcinella) (detail; 1924), Pablo Picasso. Fundación MAPFRE

A show in Madrid sets out to explore how the close friendship between the painter and the fashion designer informed their work

Visualizing the Virgin Mary

The Getty Center in Los Angeles explores the medieval fascination with the mother of Christ

Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924–Today

The Design Museum in London shows how Surrealism changed the shape of everyday things

The week in art news – calls for the Rosetta Stone’s return to Egypt grow louder

The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum

Plus: the V&A has finally removed the Sackler name from the museum and Chris Dercon is to lead the Fondation Cartier

Can Liz Truss hold on to her marbles?

Liz Truss, with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (second from left). Photo: Alastair Grant/Pool/Getty Image

The British prime minister has brought her knack for careful diplomacy to the Parthenon marbles row

The real O.C. now has a museum that provides a world-class welcome

The Orange County Museum of Art

The new Orange County Museum of Art has a stellar collection from California and a glitzy exterior to match

Auction highlights – an Al Thani treasure trove comes up for sale in Paris

The Salon de Curiosités at the Hôtel Lambert. Photo: courtesy Sotheby’s

The first of Apollo’s new, fortnightly auction previews looks at Sotheby’s sale of objects from one of Paris’s most colourful private mansions

Frieze week highlights: Beat Generation artists and the forgotten Vorticist

Helen Saunders Hammock

Drawings and paintings by the little-known Vorticist artist Helen Saunders and a screening of Bruce Conner’s 1967 film ‘THE WHITE ROSE’ are among the shows not to miss this year

In the studio with… Dindga McCannon

The artist Dindga McCannon in her studio.

The Philadelphia-based artist prefers the comforts of working at home, but she’s found the perfect compromise with a studio that has its own washing machine

Acquisitions of the Month: September 2022

Master of the Krainburg Altar.

Two busts by the French sculptor Charles Cordier and a 15th-century triptych by the Master of the Krainburg Altar are among this month’s highlights

Museums beware: permanent collections are not piggy banks

Fixed assets? The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The Association of Art Museum Directors’ new guidelines for deaccessioning are welcome, but they still leave its members open to monetary temptation

Pampered pooches of the rich and the famous

John Pawson and his pooch Lochie. Courtesy Dylan Thomas

A picture-book of the lucky mutts of ‘high-flying creatives’ is just what we all need

The week in art news – Glasgow City Council to sell the Kelvingrove

Photo: Glasgow Life

Plus: the Charities Act of February 2022 grants museums new powers over restitution, Bard College establishes endowment of $50m for the study of Indigenous art, and more art news

Hallyu! The Korean Wave

Saekdong

Taking in everything from Squid Game to BTS, this exhibition (24 September–25 June 2023) at the Victoria and Albert Museum…

The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England

The Met explores how the Tudors transformed England’s standing as a centre for the arts

Monet – Mitchell

The Artist's House Seen From the Rose Garden (detail; 1922–24), Claude Monet.

The Fondation Louis Vuitton looks at the links between Joan Mitchell’s Abstract Expressionism and Monet’s Impressionism

Checkmate – The Game of Kings

Young man in gold-decorated harness (left) and Maria Stuart (right) (1594 and c. 1600), Nicolas Hilliard and unknown artist.

The Kunst Museum Winterthur reveals how portrait miniatures became important status symbols across Northern Europe in the early 17th century

At Nottingham Contemporary, caves really are the rocks of ages

La Condition Humaine (detail; 1935), René Magritte.

A show about caves and the artists who have been inspired by them goes deep underground and incredibly far back in time

Is the art market about to tank? What the experts say

Six leading economists and art advisers offer their insights into how the market will be affected by a global recession