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After a series of scandals, the Met hires an in-house provenance team
Plus: the Centre Pompidou in Paris will close for five years, from 2025–2030, and Samuel Fosso wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
The unheimlich manoeuvres of Joanna Pietrowska
These photographs of domestic scenes and everyday encounters are very familiar and very unsettling
The week in art news – UNESCO calls for greater protections for artists
Plus: boycott at Kiasma in Helsinki comes to an end, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The coronation, reviewed
Amid all the pomp and the circumstance, the crowning of Charles III has much to tell us about the state of the nation
The National Gallery throws its director to the wolves
Guests at the opening of ‘Saint Francis of Assisi’ included two very fetching wolf-dogs. Rakewell regrets not making their acquaintance.
André Butzer
A survey of the self-described ‘Science Fiction Expressionist’ at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid
Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris
Pallant House Gallery in Chichester explores how the artist forged an independent career and style
Young Picasso in Paris
The Guggenheim explores how the City of Light entranced the 19-year-old artist
Play and Pastimes in the Middle Ages
The Getty Center looks at what medieval communities did for fun
The Gwangju Biennale charts uncertain new waters
The current edition of Asia’s oldest biennial is far from perfect, though there’s a lot of very good art here
The crowning glories of Westminster Abbey
With all eyes on the coronation, it’s worth remembering that the scene of the ceremony remains a work in progress
When did fashion photography stop being fun?
A trip through the Condé Nast archives now owned by François Pinault suggests that wit is no longer in vogue
4 things to see: the coronation of Charles III
From a special ointment to an Aztec stone, we have gathered together a set of essentials to get the new King through his big day
A surprise pest of honour at the Met Gala
The sensational appearance of a cockroach at this year’s Met Gala leads Rakewell to reflect on other star turns performed by the creepy-crawly
Acquisitions of the Month: April 2023
The joint acquisition of Joshua Reynolds’s ‘Portrait of Mai (Omai)’ by the National Portrait Gallery and the J. Paul Getty Museum has been confirmed
I want it all – Freddie Mercury’s collection comes under the hammer
Sotheby’s claims the rockstar was also a fervent art collector but Rakewell can’t help wonder if this is just fantasy?
Director of Brussel’s Royal Museums of Fine Arts resigns after staff allegations
France releases its restitution report and this year’s Turner Prize shortlist has been announced
Frank Auerbach faces himself
At the age of 91, the artist has produced a series of remarkable self-portraits, now on show at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
Niko Pirosmani
Georgia’s most celebrated painter documented his nation’s customs and landscapes in a distinctive, naive style
The battle to win New York’s auction season
There’s strong competition in the Big Apple this month, with a martial portrait by Rubens and a late landscape by Henri Rousseau among the contenders
Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece
How the Persian empire set the standard for luxury living in the ancient world
Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty
Garments and hand-drawn sketches trace the extraordinary career of the pioneering designer
4 things to see: International Dance Day
Art and dance have been engaged in a pas de deux for centuries
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