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My Masterpiece Selection: Gary Tinterow
‘I have selected some objects that both resonate with me and also with one another’
‘It was a challenge, but I have grown from it’ – Shirin Neshat on her latest work
‘I never feel accomplished’
Highlights of Masterpiece London
Where to find the most exceptional works at this year’s fair
Andrea del Sarto
The Renaissance Workshop in Action For Andrea Del Sarto, the sketch was the genesis of the artistic process, whether through…
The Taste of Victory: British artists and Waterloo
Painters struggled deal with the bloody reality of the battlefield
Muse Reviews
Frida Kahlo in the garden; highlights from Art Basel; sculpture in Oslo; and Dan Holdsworth’s dizzying photographs
George Caleb Bingham
Navigating the West One of the foremost American genre painters of the 19th century, George Caleb Bingham is best known…
Public art, private funds: can Oslo learn from Christian Ringnes’ sculpture park?
Changing Norwegian attitudes to privately-funded art
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
Book Competition
Your chance to win ‘Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action’
Send them back: Sir Hugh Lane’s Impressionist icons belong in Ireland, not London
And the National Gallery knows it
Jeff Koons: A Retrospective
The unique, unmistakable, innovative work of Jeff Koons has made him one of the most prominent figures of the art…
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
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?
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
Forum: Does London need the Smithsonian?
Edwin Heathcote and Neale Coleman discuss the Smithsonian’s plans to open an outpost in the ‘Olympicopolis’
Letter: James Turrell in the wilds of Norfolk
Turrell has transformed Houghton Hall with his powerful, mesmerising light installations
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
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
John Aubrey on architecture: centuries old and more relevant than ever
17th-century writing on ancient buildings never felt so contemporary
Highlights from ‘Gold and Ivory’ at Louvre-Lens
Beautiful example of medieval painting, sculpture and decorative arts on show at the Louvre-Lens Museum
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…
Gold and Ivory
This show highlights the cultural exchanges between Paris and Tuscany in the second half of the 13th century. Over 125…
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?