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Eight art events to get to this month
The exhibition highlights and museum openings not to miss in January
Were the Egyptian Surrealists too unpatriotic to be popular?
Surrealism in Egypt was an international affair that lost out to more nationalist art movements
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
John Berger’s motorbikes; James Franco and the art of method acting; and concrete coffee, exclusive to Selfridges
Art and humanity in the work of Paul de Monchaux
The sculptor discusses abstraction, music, architecture, carving kerb stones, and the ‘common enterprise’ at the heart of it all
Why it’s time for someone to catalogue Fra Bartolommeo’s drawings
As an exhibition in Rotterdam shows, Fra Bartolommeo draughtsmanship is ravishingly beautiful
Acquisitions of the month: December 2016
The finest new additions to public art collections, from a rare ancient carved gem, to William Orpen’s beautifully illustrated hand-written letters
The crafty imperialist
John Lockwood Kipling (father of the more famous Rudyard) was an important champion of traditional Indian arts and crafts
Art market predictions for 2017
Leading art market figures and auction house supremos make their predictions for the year ahead
Year of the Rooster, art of the poultry yard
Joana Vasconcelos has sent a cockerel sculpture to Beijing for Chinese New Year. She’s only the latest artist to have a thing for chickens
How long can our great civic museums hold out?
Kirklees Council’s proposal to sell off Francis Bacon’s ‘Figure Study II’ is just a taste of things to come
The dark art of Jonas Burgert heads for Bologna
Jonas Burgert’s paintings are dark as hell, and absolutely compelling. His major exhibition in Bologna promises to be a highlight this year
What will become of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry?
Britain’s oldest manufacturing company, whose origins date back to 1420, is to close this May. What will happen to its historic home?
When Facebook nixed a naughty Neptune
Facebook recently censored a photograph of Giambologna’s Fountain of Neptune in Bologna. But did its software notice the sculpture’s naughty side?
Sotheby’s takes a risk on a potential Velázquez
A ‘bodegón’ thought to be by Velázquez, a Tiepolo head study, and a stag-antler chair are just some of the highlights headed to auction this month
Flemish portraits, science fiction, and an avant-garde centenary
Antwerp’s Old Master treasures are on tour, while the Barbican is staging a sprawling but ambitious science fiction exhibition
Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller (1930–2016)
Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, the leading tribal art collector and international museum patron, has died at the age of 86
William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland peel back the layers of history
The two artists make a rewarding double act at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery
Dutch prints, De Stijl, and David Hockney
Hercules Segers heads for the USA, Giacometti goes to Doha, David Hockney turns 80 in style, and more
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