Acquisitions of the Month: January 2023
A first for the Frick and a Caillebotte at the Musée d'Orsay are among the most important works to enter museum collections this month
A first for the Frick and a Caillebotte at the Musée d'Orsay are among the most important works to enter museum collections this month
The couple’s apartment in New York contains Chinese antiquities of impeccable provenance, as well as photographs of illustrious forebears
The French-Algerian artist explains her fascination with the activism of the 1960s and why, for her, the personal really is political
A new library at Magdalene College and a dining hall at Homerton make the most of modern craftsmanship
On the 300th anniversary of his death, the architect’s fame remains unassailable – but the character of the man is more contested than ever, writes Matthew Walker
David Young Kim’s ingenious study of grounds and figures takes the reader on an unfamiliar journey through familiar territory
Robert Mintz of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco explains how tensions between tigers and magpies in Korean folk tales made their way on to a porcelain vase
The painter’s close friendship with the Wertheimers is quite evident in the many portraits he made of them all
Tech companies have long tried to put a human face on their latest innovations, with varying degrees of success
Hyperrealist sculptors today, and still-life painters of the past, have all tried to trick their viewers into accepting fiction as truth
The photographer who bore witness to the Spanish Civil War paid the ultimate price for her fearlessness
The popstar is believed to own an artwork which has been missing from Amiens since the First World War
Ever since F.W. Murnau adapted Bram Stoker’s Dracula for his seminal film Nosferatu, the vampire has haunted the modern imagination
A cursory look at some princely portraits might have encouraged Harry to head for the Californian hills even earlier
A donation of 220 works by Philip Guston from the artist’s daughter and a portrait of one of Louis XV’s most controversial aides are among this month’s highlights
The new-look National Portrait Gallery in London and the International African American Museum in Charleston are among the highlights of the year ahead
The artist’s mastery of unusual materials gave her a real edge over her peers
The painter’s house in Suffolk now tells a compelling story about his formative influence
Giorgio Vasari’s famous collection of Renaissance drawings was dispersed after his death, and scholars have been trying track down its contents for centuries
No one could accuse the painter of flattering his subjects, but he was certainly painstaking about capturing them on canvas