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Fashioned by Sargent
Portraits by the painter are paired with original garments worn by his sitters
Judy Chicago: Herstory
From early experiments in Minimalism to recent activism – the New Museum presents a wide-ranging survey of the artist’s work
How Frans Hals made up for his slow start
The painter was no prodigy but, as Bart Cornelis of the National Gallery in London tells Apollo, he was soon making up for lost time with his bold brushwork
Brute force – the savage post-war paintings of George Grosz
The artist’s later work is usually regarded as apolitical but, as the Stick Men paintings show, he produced some of his most savage work after the war
The Lost Mirror: The Image of Jews and Judaism in Medieval Spain
The Museo Nacional del Prado examines representations of and attitudes towards the country’s Jewish population in the Middle Ages
Acquisitions of the Month: September 2023
A Regency torchère and a recently rediscovered work by Francisco de Zurbarán are among the most remarkable works to enter public collections
In Edinburgh, the National Gallery now gives Scottish art the space it deserves
The opening of a whole new suite of galleries means that Scottish artists now have the same status as the museum’s Old Masters
Is Frieze Art Fair still a hot ticket?
Seven leading curators, art advisors and gallerists look back on the launch of the London event and consider how relevant it is today
Studying abroad: what Mark Rothko learned in Europe
The painter was often forthright in his rejection of the old world – but it’s time to reconsider his European influences
This year’s Turner Prize nominees display a weariness with institutions
The shortlisted artists highlight the fragility of the existing order, with the best of them upending what we expect from a show in a gallery
The baroque Edwardian buildings of Edwin Rickards
The architect’s highly ornamented designs have more in common with the work of his European peers
Soul mates – the story of Yusuf and Zuleikha
Sameer Rahim is impressed by a 16th-century Iranian manuscript illustrating a Sufi poem of seduction and spiritualism
Colour saturation – how the world stopped seeing in black and white
Kirsty Sinclair Dootson shows that a history of colour processes is also a history of shifts in society
Stitches in time – the power of Palestinian embroidery
The history of Palestinian dress is inseparable from that of the nation itself – and now the subject of an invaluable exhibition
Local hero – Joshua Reynolds returns to Plymouth
To mark the painter’s 300th birthday, the Box in Plymouth is staging a thoughtful show that encourages us to look beyond the obvious
Sophie Calle takes on Picasso in Paris
In the year’s most unusual tribute to the modernist master, the artist is taking over the museum dedicated to him and filling it with her personal belongings
Brave new world – how Glenn Spiro breathes new life into old materials
The London-based jewellery artist uses antique forms to challenge received notions of preciousness
The South African winemakers who are cultivating the arts
A new initiative combines adventurous winemaking with an unusual form of art philanthropy
For not-so-humble pies – a short history of the tureen dish
Pastries topped with taxidermy and lavish decoration were the inspiration for elaborate tureen dishes, masterpieces of the goldsmith’s craft
The women who keep reappearing in Rubens’s paintings
The adjective ‘Rubenesque’ was coined in the 19th century, but there’s rather more to the female figures in his paintings than acres of flesh
Around the galleries – Paris+ par Art Basel is back with even grander plans
Art Basel’s newest offshoot returns to the French capital with a public programme that is free and open to everyone
Leave it to beavers – if you want to build infrastructure in the UK
The sighting of the first beaver kit born in the London area in more than 400 years is a bright spot in the landscape – and a lesson to policymakers everywhere
The true heirs to the Rothschild taste are actually in New York
Objects belonging to the French branch of the family are being sold by Christie’s this month – and they’re likely to wow US collectors
British Museum launches public appeal for the return of stolen objects
Plus: Buddha sculpture stolen from Bakarat Gallery, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco sues its architect, and the rest of the week’s top stories
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