Art UK This online database of art in UK public collections is an important resource with scholarly and popular appeal. It includes images of all publicly owned paintings and some works on paper, and plans to cover sculpture, too. Users are invited to share and organise information using tools such as ‘Art Detective’, which has facilitated […]
Abstract Expressionism Royal Academy of Arts, London 24 September–2 January 2017 The first major survey of the movement in Europe since 1959, with 163 works spanning four decades and including sculpture, photography, and prints as well as the legendary paintings. Many significant and difficult loans have been secured, including a room of paintings by Clyfford Still, […]
The Virgin of the Pomegranate (c. 1426), Fra Angelico Museo del Prado, Madrid Accompanied by a small panel recently attributed to Fra Angelico, these two additions join an Annuciation (1425–26) at the Prado, making it ‘an international reference point for the study of this Florentine master’. The work was acquired for €18 million from the Spanish Alba […]
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts Christopher de Hamel Allen Lane De Hamel’s engaging discussion of 12 medieval illuminated manuscripts includes the Gospels of St Augustine in Cambridge and the Codex Amiatinus in Florence. In this personal, but scholarly account, De Hamel visits each manuscript in its current home, describes each encounter, and manages to span nine […]
Carmen Herrera The Cuban-born American artist, who turned 101 this year, has been painting since the 1950s but her reputation has grown in recent years: she sold her first painting in 2004 and her work has been acquired by MoMA and Tate Modern. This year Herrera has been celebrated with a major retrospective at the […]
Kunstmuseum Basel Basel, Switzerland The Kunstmuseum Basel reopened in spring 2016 following a 12-month refurbishment, and to coincide with the unveiling of its highly acclaimed new exhibition building, designed by Christ & Gantenbein at a cost of CHF100 million. Musée Rodin Paris, France The Musée Rodin, housed in the historic Hôtel Biron, reopened in November […]
