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I.M. Pei photographed in 2004.

I.M. Pei (1917–2019)

Art news daily: 17 May

17 May 2019
The Sackler Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
A mosque closed by authorities in Kashgar, Xinjiang province, photographed on 28 June 2017.

The razing of mosques is the next step in China’s crackdown on Uyghur culture

When a million Uyghur Muslims in China are being held in detention, the demolition of mosques comes as no surprise

16 May 2019

The painter who made his name on the Western Front

Alfred Munnings was an official war artist who took a curiously pastoral approach to the conflict

16 May 2019
Meules(1890), Claude Monet. Courtesy Sotheby's

$111m sale of Monet haystacks painting breaks records

Art news daily: 15 May

15 May 2019
Philip Johnson with models showing ‘the evolution of the modern skyscraper’, shortly before their display at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1933.

The most influential and most detested architect of the modern age

Philip Johnson was not the most talented modern American architect, but he was certainly the most important

15 May 2019
Moving Off the Land (2019), Joan Jonas. Performance with Ikue Mori and Francesco Migliacco, Ocean Space, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice, 2019.

Politics, performance and porcelain – at the Venice Biennale and beyond

Themes of exile and migration thread their way through the works in the main exhibition, national pavilions, and elsewhere

15 May 2019
Cody Hartley, 2019.

Cody Hartley named Georgia O’Keeffe Museum director

Art news daily: 14 May

14 May 2019
‘Sun and Sea’ by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė, Photo: Neon Realism
The Statue of the Virgin Welcomed with Great Pomp in Brussels (1516–18), unknown Brussels workshop, after a design by Bernard van Orley.

Lavish tapestries and pious paintings – Bernard van Orley weaves his magic in Brussels

The Flemish master, whose workshop was one of the busiest in 16th-century Brussels, gets his first major survey in the city of his birth

13 May 2019
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1943), Dorothea Tanning. Tate Collection.

Flowers, hyenas and haunted hotels – the surreal world of Dorothea Tanning

The Tate’s survey of Tanning’s long career testifies to her lifelong commitment to Surrealism

11 May 2019
Jean-Pierre Muster, chief executive of Unicredit, Unicredit
Modèle assise dans un fauteuil, se coiffant (detail; c. 1903), Édouard Vuillard.

Acquisitions of the month: April 2019

Paintings, prints and a vast video panorama – the best works of art to enter public collections recently

10 May 2019
Drinking vessels with decorated gold neck in-situ.
Richard Sackville (1589–1624), 3rd Earl of Dorset (detail; 1613), William Larkin. English Heritage, Kenwood.

Behind the curtain – it’s time William Larkin finally got his due

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of the great English court painter, long known only as the ‘Curtain Master’

9 May 2019
Rosso Plastica M3 (1961), Alberto Burri. © Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri, Città di Castello

The legacy of Alberto Burri burns bright – at home in Umbria, and in Venice

Some 50 works by the enigmatic artist have travelled from his hometown to Venice this summer

9 May 2019
Archaeological excavations at Stonehenge in 1958.
The Rain Fell Everywhere (2018), David Salle.

David Salle puts a new spin on history painting

The painter’s witty and deceptively effortless works combine high and low culture to enjoyable effect

8 May 2019
Still from the digital video installation One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (2019), by Isuma, the central work in the Canadian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.

Venice in furs – an Inuit collective at the Biennale

The Isuma collective’s new film draws on the history of coerced relocation of Inuit communities in Canada

8 May 2019
The Saatchi Gallery in London.
Installation view of ‘DOMUS GRIMANI 1594–2019’ in the Sala della Tribuna in Palazzo Grimani, Venice, 2019. Photo: Matteo De Fina. Courtesy Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities – Polo Museale del Veneto

Stepping back in time at Palazzo Grimani in Venice

Returning the Grimani sculpture collection to its dramatic 16th-century setting feels like a dream, says Toto Bergamo Rossi

7 May 2019
Left: Painted bowl with geometric design and possible flower images, Classic Mimbres period (1000–1130), New Mexico. Right: Painted bowl with composite animal figure, Classic Mimbres period (1000–1130).

Bowled over – the painted pots of the ancient Mimbres people

Around a thousand years ago in the American Southwest, a highly sophisticated ceramic tradition emerged

7 May 2019
Installation view of Synchronicity (2018) at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tsuyoshi Hisakado.

What not to miss at the 58th Venice Biennale

From Ralph Rugoff’s main exhibition to the 35 national pavilions, there’s lots to see – so here are the expected highlights

6 May 2019
Ve*us and Cu*id.

The great Renaissance cover-up

Titian and Bronzino have incurred the wrath of a librarian at a Baptist college in Florida

4 May 2019