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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
Why London’s auction houses are feeling so flat
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
Four things to see: Heavy weather
As climate change continues to affect the world and the way we see it, here are four paintings of weather events, which serve as dramatic reminders of the power of nature and of human vulnerability
The British colourist who passed down the lessons of Matisse
Matthew Smith’s striking use of colour, learnt from the Post-Impressionists, left a mark on the British artists who succeeded him
In the studio with… Wendy Sharpe
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
The burning ambitions of Roger Ackling
Using nothing but a magnifying glass and the sun’s rays, the artist created sculptures that defy easy categorisation
In Norway, a converted grain silo contains a bumper crop of Nordic art
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?
Should permanent collections tell up-to-the-minute stories?
Museums often have a responsibility to reflect major events, but should be careful not to disregard seemingly smaller stories
The women who channelled violence into art
Chantal Akerman and Valie Export have both deployed aggression as a means of artistic expression
The Castilian ruin that is now a haven for contemporary art
Collectors Lorena Pérez-Jácome and Javier Lumbreras are bringing new life to a 16th-century Jesuit school
The Renaissance patrons who were no saints in religious paintings
Christopher Wood’s account of a turning point in early Renaissance art is typically demanding and always stimulating
Picnicking with the Impressionists
Comparing the spreads on offer in scenes by Manet and Monet suggests that eating outdoors offered the artists a very particular kind of freedom
Once upon a time in Tasmania for the Wu-Tang
The Museum of Old and New Art is offering a rare chance to listen to the only copy of Once Upon A Time in Shaolin in existence, but what will happen to the album next?
United States returns hundreds of looted antiquities to Italy
Plus: the classical archaeologist and art historian John Boardman has died at the age of 96
The Art of Pattern: Henri Matisse and Japanese Woodcut Artists
The Baltimore Museum of Art is pairing Matisse’s portraits of women with Japanese woodcut prints to reveal a shared interest in complex patterns
Zanele Muholi
Two decades of photographs documenting the lives of the Black and queer communities of South Africa go on show at Tate Modern
Georgia O’Keeffe: ‘My New Yorks’
The artist spent much of her career painting the landscapes and nature of New Mexico, but her urban scenes are just as accomplished
Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks
Grotesque portraits, lavish still lifes and chaotic religious scenes are among the works on show in this survey of Flemish art between 1400 and 1700
The British collectors who developed a decided taste for Degas
William Burrell came to own 23 paintings by the artist, but an exhibition in Glasgow shows that his contemporaries were just as appreciative
Four things to see: The Venetian School
To mark the anniversary of the death of Tintoretto, we look at four magnificent artworks from the influential Venetian School of painting
When Robert Rauschenberg went on tour
The artist spent much of the 1980s making works inspired by his international trips – and showing off the results in the countries themselves
How the masters of Meissen made perfect miniature worlds
The porcelain marvels produced in the 18th century combine opulence with naturalism to heart-stopping effect
When Francis Bacon went al fresco
By exhibiting Two Figures in the Grass the artist succeeded in attracting the controversy he was almost certainly courting
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