Acquisitions of the Month: April 2024
A luscious portrait by Johann Richard Seel and a magnificent bronze statue by Giambologna are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
A luscious portrait by Johann Richard Seel and a magnificent bronze statue by Giambologna are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
Three hundred years of cultural exchange are the focus of this show at Harvard Art Museums
The painter who began as a master of modernist abstraction kept reinventing himself right until the end
The Pontiff touched down in Venice this week, but God knows what he thought of the art on display at the Biennale’s Vatican pavilion
If sales so far this year are anything to go by, the high-profile auctions taking place this month may not bring much excitement
In the first half of the 15th century, artists drew on the Northern and Italian Renaissances to create a distinctly French cultural flowering
Karlo Kacharava was only 30 when he died in 1984. In Georgia, he is regarded as a one-man avant-garde and his work is now being acclaimed abroad
The artist takes inspiration from Billie Holiday, El Greco and a pair of old Indian puppets when painting large-scale canvases in his East London studio
This year’s laudably international line-up gives plenty of space to photography, performance and video
The Italian designer’s pared-back approach to craftsmanship always prized the practical over the pretty
The pop artist believed that artists should make work for the masses. Decades after his death, his images are everywhere
The maestro’s first contract with FC Barcelona, written on a napkin, has been withdrawn from auction after a dispute between his current and former agents
Part biographical survey, part crash-course in Lacanian thought, an exhibition about the psychoanalyst’s links to art could do with a sharper focus
Maarten van Heemskerck’s expert renderings of Rome inspired his countrymen to see the city for themselves
Though some regard it as provocative, it’s fairer to say that the museum’s sprucing-up of its paintings galleries is thought-provoking
The artist’s vast body of work is full of daring conceits and tantalising contradictions
There are delightful discoveries to be made at this year’s event, but sometimes the central exhibition fizzles where it should spark
The writer’s survey of interwar architecture is a monumental achievement that reminds us that modernism was only part of the 20th-century story
The Louvre looks at the ancient history that inspired a French aristocrat to create a modern form of the Olympic Games
From the recent history of Timor-Leste to world-building in Bulgaria, this year’s shows present a rich and varied cross-section of contemporary art from around the world