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My Masterpiece Selection: Gary Tinterow

‘I have selected some objects that both resonate with me and also with one another’

25 Jun 2015

Highlights of Masterpiece London

Where to find the most exceptional works at this year’s fair

22 Jun 2015

Andrea del Sarto

The Renaissance Workshop in Action For Andrea Del Sarto, the sketch was the genesis of the artistic process, whether through…

Getty Center, Los Angeles
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The Taste of Victory: British artists and Waterloo

Painters struggled deal with the bloody reality of the battlefield

17 Jun 2015

Baltic Diary: Making Art Work in Finland

Can Finland’s art scene survive in the face of declining public funding, lack of economic security, and oversupply of labour?

14 Jun 2015

Muse Reviews

Frida Kahlo in the garden; highlights from Art Basel; sculpture in Oslo; and Dan Holdsworth’s dizzying photographs

13 Jun 2015

George Caleb Bingham

Navigating the West One of the foremost American genre painters of the 19th century, George Caleb Bingham is best known…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Public art, private funds: can Oslo learn from Christian Ringnes’ sculpture park?

Changing Norwegian attitudes to privately-funded art

9 Jun 2015

Art in the Garden: Four great ways to enjoy art outdoors in the USA

Soak up some sun and some culture at the same time

7 Jun 2015

Book Competition

Your chance to win ‘Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action’

5 Jun 2015

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective

The unique, unmistakable, innovative work of Jeff Koons has made him one of the most prominent figures of the art…

Guggenheim Bilbao
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View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm – The Oxbow (1836), Thomas Cole. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Return to the source – the invention of American landscape painting

The painters of the Hudson River School are now firmly recognised as pioneers of American art – and inspiring a new generation of artists

1 Jun 2015

Editor’s Letter: Anniversary Years

Clusters of centenary exhibitions and publications may well bring new material to light. But what do they tell us about the way we think now?

1 Jun 2015

Are Italy’s museum reforms enough to stop the rot?

Red tape, nepotism, funding shortages…The Italian museum system has long been in need of an overhaul

1 Jun 2015

Forum: Does London need the Smithsonian?

Edwin Heathcote and Neale Coleman discuss the Smithsonian’s plans to open an outpost in the ‘Olympicopolis’

1 Jun 2015

Letter: James Turrell in the wilds of Norfolk

Turrell has transformed Houghton Hall with his powerful, mesmerising light installations

1 Jun 2015

Diary: the lure of the Soane Museum

What it’s like to exhibit your own collection in the former home an obsessive acquisitor like Sir John Soane

1 Jun 2015

Acquisitions of the Month: May 2015

Barbra Streisand donates to LACMA; the Met and the NGA pay homage to Aaron Douglas; SNPG celebrates the Scottish Colourist F. C. B. Cadell

31 May 2015

John Aubrey on architecture: centuries old and more relevant than ever

17th-century writing on ancient buildings never felt so contemporary

28 May 2015

Highlights from ‘Gold and Ivory’ at Louvre-Lens

Beautiful example of medieval painting, sculpture and decorative arts on show at the Louvre-Lens Museum

25 May 2015

Various Small Fires (Working Documents)

Various Small Fires (Working Documents) brings together artworks and documents from the LACMA archives to tell unusual or overlooked stories…

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Gold and Ivory

This show highlights the cultural exchanges between Paris and Tuscany in the second half of the 13th century. Over 125…

Louvre Lens, Pas-de-Calais
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