Acquisitions of the Month: November 2020
Canadian landscapes by Emily Carr and a major fresco by Tiepolo are among this month’s highlights
Canadian landscapes by Emily Carr and a major fresco by Tiepolo are among this month’s highlights
The collecting of women has often been regarded as mere shopping, but the efforts of both princesses and professional artists are now receiving their rightful dues
A group of Dutch drawings and a collection of pre-cinematic devices are among this month’s highlights
Apollo’s longer selection of the year’s most important museum acquisitions is published in the December 2020 issue Art Fund Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, bought by Derek Jarman in 1986 The artist and film-maker Derek Jarman acquired Prospect Cottage, a former fisherman’s home on the Kent coast, in 1986; he lived there until his death in 1994. Adorned […]
A portrait of an 18th-century comedienne and a long-lost manuscript by Gauguin are among this month’s highlights
A trove of newly discovered Hokusai drawings and a 17th-century ‘friendship book’ are among this month’s highlights
On Tuesday, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York cancelled a planned exhibition of artworks created in recent months ‘in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement’, after objections from a number of the artists whose work was to have been included in the show. The exhibition, titled ‘Collective Actions: Artist Interventions in […]
More than 300 photographs at MoMA and an Aboriginal shield in Adelaide are among this month's highlights
Five decades of drawings by Giuseppe Penone and a dazzling drunkard by Joaquin Sorolla are among this month’s highlights
The role of leading Anglo-Jewish figures in the development of the fledgling museum deserves to be better known
As the museum passes an important milestone with its doors shut, Glenn Adamson considers what its collection has meant to him over the years
The museum’s director talks about how the institution can best serve its audience in challenging times
A masterful pastel by Liotard and more than 100 scenes of New York are among this month’s highlights
The former transport secretary has been appointed as a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery – so he must be a museum fanatic, right?
The museum, which boasts one of the leading encyclopaedic collections in the US, has reopened – months ahead of unveiling a major expansion
Portraits of an 18th-century comedian and the ‘real’ Lydia Bennet are among this month’s highlights
Thomas Campbell and Adam Koszary ask whether the online experience can ever compare to being in a physical gallery
A transformative gift for Cleveland Museum of Art and some metal detectorists’ finds are among this month’s highlights
One of Landseer’s earliest masterpieces and a 16th-century drug jar are among this month’s highlights
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