‘An important work by Titian has been hiding in plain sight’
Has a lost portrait of the 16th-century writer Pietro Aretino been at the Kunstmuseum Basel for the last hundred years?
How Jean Dubuffet brought outsider artists into the museum
The French artist is still the guiding spirit of the Collection de l’Art Brut, the museum he founded in Lausanne
‘A very Rothschild type of display’ – Waddesdon’s new gallery, reviewed
The new permanent gallery presents all kinds of exquisite pieces with special family associations
South Africa’s most established art fair has undergone a rapid rebirth
A sophisticated revamp means that Art Joburg is now a smaller, sleeker affair
The scientific revolution gets the royal treatment
The Science Museum’s new gallery makes subtle links between royal patronage, scientific progress and earthly conquest
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Polar bare – how climate change is destroying archaeologically rich sites in the Arctic
Thawing permafrost means the near-perfect preservation of ancient material in the Arctic will soon be a thing of the past
Florence’s art and antiques fair returns to its roots
Exceptional Italian artworks should prove a big draw at the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato in Florence
September 2019
• The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon
• Has a lost Titian been lurking in Basel?
• Gustave Courbet’s love of hunting
• The grand designs of Maximilian I
Plus: An interview with Agnes Denes, a remarkable doll’s house in Denmark, a preview of Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato di Firenze and reviews of Manet in Chicago and Paula Rego in Milton Keynes
A tour of Titania’s Palace
The fairy-tale doll’s house, now at Egeskov Castle in Denmark, still has the power to beguile with its miniature marvels and deceptions
Battle lines – the tortured genius of Antoine-Jean Gros
An exhibition of drawings at the Louvre reflects the artist’s struggle between his warring inclinations
The closure of Nerve Visual in Derry is a real loss for the region
The building that once played host to the Turner Prize now stands empty. Where does this news leave Derry?
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A forgotten Portuguese modernist finally has her moment
Although she struggled to forge a career, Sarah Affonso never gave up making art, as two overlapping exhibitions in Lisbon reveal
For the record – collecting gallery papers at the Archives of American Art
From inventories to installation shots – Liza Kirwin discusses the crucial role of gallery records in documenting art history
Acquisitions of the month: August 2019
This month’s highlights include paintings of Henry VIII’s favourite wife and Dorothea Tanning’s much-loved dog
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The razing of mosques is the next step in China’s crackdown on Uyghur culture
When a million Uyghur Muslims in China are being held in detention, the demolition of mosques comes as no surprise
‘I’m trying to erase myself’ – an interview with Cindy Sherman
The artist has been taking photographs of herself for more than 40 years – but we mustn’t think of the results as self-portraits
Who’s going to shell out for this monumental crab?
‘Truly grotesque’ it may be, but the export bar placed on this characterful Victorian ceramic reflects its importance as a work of art
Mummy issues – how ancient Egypt shaped Sigmund Freud
The land of the pharaohs loomed large in the imagination of the father of psychoanalysis
Poland 1840–1918
Louvre-Lens
Myth, melancholy and military history – how Polish painting conjured up the spirit of a nation
25 Sep 2019 - 20 Jan 2020
Hannah Ryggen – Woven Manifestos
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
The Norwegian artist’s modernist tapestries combined folk art with biting political comment
26 Sep 2019 - 12 Jan 2020
Degas at the Opera
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
How the Impressionist painter presented the stars of the Parisian stage in a new light
24 Sep 2019 - 19 Jan 2020
Lucas Cranach – Renaissance Beauties
Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki
The first Finnish survey of the master from Wittenberg
26 Sep 2019 - 5 Jan 2020
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry should be a working factory, not a boutique hotel
Why is Historic England supporting a developer’s plans when there’s a better proposal waiting in the wings?