Hew Locke
Frick Collection, New York
‘The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist and the Magdalen’ by Fra Angelico
Getty Provenance Index
‘Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and National Gallery, London
Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art
Gabriele Finaldi and John Booth
The Austrian artist has filled the floor of the ancient temple with an installation that invites us to reflect on the nature of sacred space
‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ took an unexpected turn with Florence Welch’s recent shout-out to Aby Warburg’s unique book classification system
The artist’s retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts in London confirms the place of this strangest of contemporary painters in the canon
The mythological frescoes painted by Annibale Carracci at the Farnese family’s Roman palace are legendary in their own right
The classically trained actor’s most famous role was Sybil in Fawlty Towers: a character who once seemed like a battle-axe, but is clearly a feminist icon
Plus: the White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts; and a US climate protestor has been sentenced to 18 months in prison
After a seven-year closure, the museum’s resistance of easy definitions of ‘Black’ art and its determination to serve the local community couldn’t be more necessary
The Guggenheim displays some 60 paintings by the German Expressionist, along with snapshots she took on her travels in the United States
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston presents some 50 rarely glimpsed paintings of rivers, seas, forests and mountains by the American realist
The painter was a product of the Enlightenment, which might explain why he had such a knack for illuminating a subject
The Louvre is flexing its muscles by displaying the drawings that led to frescoes for one of the great Renaissance ceilings
The country’s art scene isn’t afraid to find time to stop and stare – but it does so with a healthy dose of mischief
As spooky season descends, we look at four artworks that embrace the macabre and the fantastical
The dissolution of certainties about American power now has its perfect visual emblem – in the form of bulldozers reducing part of the White House to rubble
Marla Aaron has worked with a Bavarian royal porcelain manufactory for her latest series – and the collaboration looks to be a perfect fit
The Musée d'Ennery is a hidden gem: a belle époque collection of East Asian art that is well worth the effort it requires to get in
The cultural legacy of Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and co. is undeniable but, with the design, fashion, art and literary worlds forever ‘rediscovering’ them, perhaps it’s time to move on
