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The contemporary artists who are paying their respects to Piranesi
Piranesi may have fallen out with his Irish patron but, in modern-day Dublin, artists inspired by his example are looking to mend fences
In the studio with… Nikita Gale
Downtime is important for the artist in downtown Los Angeles, who has a figurine from a children’s television show keep watch over their studio
When it comes to restitution, UK museums should be careful what they wish for
The V&A’s director Tristram Hunt has floated the idea of changing the law to allow national museums to make permanent returns. Robert Hewison advises treading very carefully
Putting a name to one of Glyn Philpot’s most mysterious faces
Who is the subject of the painter’s cryptically titled ‘Madame C d’A’? Tessa Murdoch looks for clues among his most progressive patrons
The week in art news – Claes Oldenburg (1929–2022)
Plus: Documenta director resigns in anti-Semitism row, Italian authorities stop Artemisia sale in Vienna and New York DA’s office returns 142 artefacts to Italy
Welcome to Britain, where the wild bison now roam
Bringing the European bison to Kent is intended to do wonders for the woodland, but Rakewell can’t help wondering if art needs rewilding too
What photographs can and can’t tell us about buildings
Since the invention of the medium, photography has always had an ambiguous relationship with architecture
Brett Weston
The exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art revels in the photographer’s love of the Californian landscape
A Taste for Impressionism: Modern French Art from Millet to Matisse
The Scottish National Gallery celebrates the Scottish collectors who were quick to appreciate the Impressionists
Dalton Paula: Brazilian Portraits
Portraits of Black leaders, writers and entertainers are at the heart of this exhibition of works by the contemporary Brazilian artist at the Museu de Arte São Paulo
Francesco Clemente
The Albertina in Vienna marks its acquisition of the Jablonka Collection with an exhibition of works by the Italian-American painter
Think pink with Madame Pompadour!
An extremely close look at François Boucher’s portrait of the marquise in the Fogg Museum at Harvard homes in on the painter’s use of his signature colour
In the studio with… Torkwase Dyson
The New York-based artist listens to experimental jazz and audiobooks about physics, and likes to keep her studio floor clean enough for bare feet
The blingy side of Botticelli
The painter’s use of gold in his works suggests a debt to earlier artists – and reveals a more antiquarian side of 15th-century Florence
A summer of madness on the Spanish Steps
First a man in a Maserati, then the hurling of a scooter – and now a spat between fashion houses. What on earth has got into everyone?
The week in art news – Horniman Museum wins Art Fund Museum of the Year prize
The Horniman Museum and Gardens in London is this year’s Art Fund Museum of the Year. The annual award, which…
We now know where all the UK’s public sculptures are – but are they any good?
Art UK’s new catalogue allows us to assess the artistic merits of the nation’s monuments – and to mourn a lost memorial to Percy Bysshe Shelley
Park Dae Sung: Virtuous Ink and Contemporary Brush
The contemporary ink-and-wash painter puts a modern spin on the traditional Korean art form at LACMA
Mein Liebermann: Eine Hommage
To mark the 175th anniversary of his birth, the Alte Nationalgalerie reflects on the life and works of Max Liebermann
Self Determined: The Painter Ottilie W. Roederstein
In 1902, the German-Swiss painter was the first living woman artist to have a work acquired by the Städel; now she has a survey to herself
Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop
Works by the collective of Black photographers that started out in Harlem go on display at the Getty Center
A static portrait of a static world – ‘Bloodlines’ by Amie Siegel, reviewed
The artist’s latest film shows how the past permeates the present in a series of sumptuous scenes – but is it saying anything new?
In the studio with… Christopher Le Brun
The painter begins his day by sneaking up on his paintings in an attempt to see them afresh and completes them at night when they’re looking their worst
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