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Amy Sherald

Frieze week highlights: Amy Sherald and Craig Murray-Orr

Amy Sherald’s striking portraits and Craig Murray-Orr’s postcard-sized paintings are among the highlights to see this year

8 Oct 2022

The Legend of King Arthur: A Pre-Raphaelite Love Story

The exhibition at the William Morris Gallery explores how Arthurian folklore captured the imaginations of Victorian artists

7 Oct 2022
Untitled (Harlequin and Pulcinella) (detail; 1924), Pablo Picasso. Fundación MAPFRE

Picasso/Chanel

A show in Madrid sets out to explore how the close friendship between the painter and the fashion designer informed their work

7 Oct 2022

Visualizing the Virgin Mary

The Getty Center in Los Angeles explores the medieval fascination with the mother of Christ

7 Oct 2022

Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924–Today

The Design Museum in London shows how Surrealism changed the shape of everyday things

7 Oct 2022
The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum

The week in art news – calls for the Rosetta Stone’s return to Egypt grow louder

Plus: the V&A has finally removed the Sackler name from the museum and Chris Dercon is to lead the Fondation Cartier

7 Oct 2022
Liz Truss, with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (second from left). Photo: Alastair Grant/Pool/Getty Image

Can Liz Truss hold on to her marbles?

The British prime minister has brought her knack for careful diplomacy to the Parthenon marbles row

7 Oct 2022
The Orange County Museum of Art

The real O.C. now has a museum that provides a world-class welcome

The new Orange County Museum of Art has a stellar collection from California and a glitzy exterior to match

7 Oct 2022
The Salon de Curiosités at the Hôtel Lambert. Photo: courtesy Sotheby’s

Auction highlights – an Al Thani treasure trove comes up for sale in Paris

The first of Apollo’s new, fortnightly auction previews looks at Sotheby’s sale of objects from one of Paris’s most colourful private mansions

7 Oct 2022
Helen Saunders Hammock

Frieze week highlights: Beat Generation artists and the forgotten Vorticist

Drawings and paintings by the little-known Vorticist artist Helen Saunders and a screening of Bruce Conner’s 1967 film ‘THE WHITE ROSE’ are among the shows not to miss this year

6 Oct 2022
The artist Dindga McCannon in her studio.

In the studio with… Dindga McCannon

The Philadelphia-based artist prefers the comforts of working at home, but she’s found the perfect compromise with a studio that has its own washing machine

6 Oct 2022
Master of the Krainburg Altar.

Acquisitions of the Month: September 2022

Two busts by the French sculptor Charles Cordier and a 15th-century triptych by the Master of the Krainburg Altar are among this month’s highlights

6 Oct 2022
Fixed assets? The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Museums beware: permanent collections are not piggy banks

The Association of Art Museum Directors’ new guidelines for deaccessioning are welcome, but they still leave its members open to monetary temptation

5 Oct 2022
John Pawson and his pooch Lochie. Courtesy Dylan Thomas

Pampered pooches of the rich and the famous

A picture-book of the lucky mutts of ‘high-flying creatives’ is just what we all need

30 Sep 2022
Photo: Glasgow Life

The week in art news – Glasgow City Council to sell the Kelvingrove

Plus: the Charities Act of February 2022 grants museums new powers over restitution, Bard College establishes endowment of $50m for the study of Indigenous art, and more art news

30 Sep 2022
Saekdong

Hallyu! The Korean Wave

Taking in everything from Squid Game to BTS, this exhibition (24 September–25 June 2023) at the Victoria and Albert Museum…

30 Sep 2022

The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England

The Met explores how the Tudors transformed England’s standing as a centre for the arts

30 Sep 2022
The Artist's House Seen From the Rose Garden (detail; 1922–24), Claude Monet.

Monet – Mitchell

The Fondation Louis Vuitton looks at the links between Joan Mitchell’s Abstract Expressionism and Monet’s Impressionism

30 Sep 2022
Young man in gold-decorated harness (left) and Maria Stuart (right) (1594 and c. 1600), Nicolas Hilliard and unknown artist.

Checkmate – The Game of Kings

The Kunst Museum Winterthur reveals how portrait miniatures became important status symbols across Northern Europe in the early 17th century

30 Sep 2022
La Condition Humaine (detail; 1935), René Magritte.

At Nottingham Contemporary, caves really are the rocks of ages

A show about caves and the artists who have been inspired by them goes deep underground and incredibly far back in time

30 Sep 2022

Is the art market about to tank? What the experts say

Six leading economists and art advisers offer their insights into how the market will be affected by a global recession

29 Sep 2022
Haroon Mirza

Scandinavia’s oldest biennial is a thoroughly monstrous affair

In its determination to keep things as local as possible the Lofoten International Art Festival doesn’t shy away from the dark corners of the region’s history

29 Sep 2022
Sabine Weiss

Unmasked emotion – the photographer who saw beneath the surface

Working across photojournalism, fashion photography and portraiture, Sabine Weiss captured her subjects with curiosity and emotion

28 Sep 2022
Presence and Absence Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic goes missing in Oxford

The performance artist is absent from her latest show, instead getting visitors to do the work through wellness-style meditations. Is it worth the effort?

27 Sep 2022