Acquisitions of the month: May 2024
An uncanny family portrait by Lavinia Fontana and Sorolla’s striking copy of a Velásquez are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
An uncanny family portrait by Lavinia Fontana and Sorolla’s striking copy of a Velásquez are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
With cancelled sales and market uncertainty, Christie’s and Sotheby’s have been taking hammer blows in recent months – but it’s not just a London problem
The artist has all she needs in her capacious studio in Sydney, where her artist partner, some audiobooks and a Mexican papier-mâché skeleton keep her company
A 1930s structure has been repurposed to house the collection of Nicolai Tangen. It’s certainly impressive, but how coherent is the work on show?
Collectors Lorena Pérez-Jácome and Javier Lumbreras are bringing new life to a 16th-century Jesuit school
Comparing the spreads on offer in scenes by Manet and Monet suggests that eating outdoors offered the artists a very particular kind of freedom
William Burrell came to own 23 paintings by the artist, but an exhibition in Glasgow shows that his contemporaries were just as appreciative
An ambitious new event features several photographers seeing colonial histories through a contemporary lens
The Smithsonian celebrates a group of 20th-century women whose innovative work helped bring textile art out of the shadows
Ahead of his Tate Britain commission, the artist tells Apollo about being inspired by Tupac and Cy Twombly and wanting to involve communities in everything he makes
The influential Sami artist talks to Apollo about how she has always woven politics and protest into her work
The painting perfectly captures the essence of royalty today – it’s undeniably attention-grabbing, but hollow to the core
Blake, Constable and Ivon Hitchens all feature in Alexandra Harris’s account of a place she knows well, but it’s the more obscure figures who really shine
The New York native keeps up with current affairs, listens to Radio Garden and works every day – that is, when she’s not entertaining Leonardo DiCaprio
The ancient Scottish relic makes for a captivating moment of theatre, but the rest of the displays are just as artfully done
After the First World War, German artists took an unflinching look at the realities of everyday life in the Weimar Republic
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the invention of the Rubik’s Cube, we look at four toys and games spanning centuries and continents that offer different perspectives on how to have fun
Seeing art is often a purely visual experience, but we shouldn't be afraid of exploring our other senses in the gallery
An exhibition at the Soane Museum shows that technical drawings of buildings are often more complex than they may seem
The museum’s head of framing, Peter Schade, is quietly changing how we see some of the world’s most famous pictures