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Acquisitions of the Month: February 2024

A Chardin still life and a pair of wooden sculptures from medieval Japan are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month

9 Mar 2024

Parma’s museum multiplex is now even harder to miss

The Palazzo della Pilotta contains three museums, a historic library and one of the oldest theatres in Europe – but, until its recent refurbishment, has often been overlooked

7 Mar 2024

Lynda Benglis’s wearable sculptures are a perfect fit

There’s a thin but fluid line between fine art and fashion for the artist who is now making accessories for Loewe

5 Mar 2024

The sentimental side of Angelica Kauffman

In the 18th century, Europe was swept by a trend for art that revealed the inner lives of its subjects – and the Swiss painter encapsulated the ideas of the age

1 Mar 2024

Rembrandt’s sorrowful Jeremiah shows the painter at his best

Koen Bulckens of the Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp explains what makes the painter’s portrait of ‘the weeping prophet’ such an emotional tour de force

26 Feb 2024

How Italy remade Willem de Kooning

At the age of 65, the artist went to Rome a painter and returned to the United States a sculptor. It wasn’t the first time the city had changed him

26 Feb 2024

What’s next for the Met?

As the Metropolitan Museum of Art enters a new era, its past decisions are still sending ripples into the present, so what does the future hold?

26 Feb 2024

‘I know exactly what I am looking for’ – Helen Hamlyn on collecting with purpose

The philanthropist’s pursuits range from collecting Asian art to restoring ruined buildings

26 Feb 2024

The Georgian avant-gardists who embraced the past

The country’s short-lived independence in the early 20th century gave birth to a thrilling artistic movement that is only now being rediscovered

26 Feb 2024

Roger Hilton’s appetite for destruction

The painter’s desire for food and drink can be traced throughout a collection of obsessive shopping lists dotted with drawings

26 Feb 2024

The slippery Surrealism of Pierre Roy

The French artist was largely ignored by his peers, but his uncanny painting of a snake is a masterpiece

26 Feb 2024

The Renaissance palace putting Brueghel and Braque side by side

The renovated Fondation Bemberg in Toulouse is a fitting home for its founder’s eclectic art collection

26 Feb 2024

Message on a bottle – the Australian vineyard giving a boost to local art

This dynamic young wine producer was quick to become a corking success – and is making sure artists from the region are in on the fun

26 Feb 2024

Valentine’s Day is no feast for food lovers

Why are there no dishes or treats traditionally associated with Valentine’s Day? The answer lies in shifts in farming and changing beliefs about food

12 Feb 2024

Acquisitions of the Month: January 2024

A recently identified painting by Guercino and a series of Joseph Cornell boxes are among the most significant works to have entered public collections last month

9 Feb 2024

Holidaying with the Habsburgs

Every summer, the emperor Franz Josef celebrated his birthday in the ‘earthly paradise’ of Bad Ischl, now a European Capital of Culture

2 Feb 2024

Pleasure-seeking in Edo-period Japan

The details of this fine woodblock show there’s even more to a majestic print of a 19th-century courtesan than meets the eye – if you know how to look

2 Feb 2024

The craft of carving from thorns, in the flesh

As an exhibition at the Hunterian in Glasgow shows, the miniature sculptures of the Nigerian artist Justus Akeredolu are a major achievement

2 Feb 2024

The HR crisis hobbling Italian museums

While the appointment or dismissal of directors makes headlines, chronic understaffing is a much more fundamental problem

2 Feb 2024

For Howard Hodgkin, collecting was as important as painting

The artist amassed one of the finest private collections of Indian court paintings, an activity that preoccupied him as much as making art

2 Feb 2024

The art museum in Athens that is making a feminist stand

For one year, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens has an all-female display of works from its collection and an all-female programme

2 Feb 2024

The untamed art of Théodore Géricault

Two hundred years after the painter’s death, his work still has the power to shock and his life remains shrouded in mystery

26 Jan 2024

Forces of Will: Building Chicago – a comic by Claire Barliant

After the demolition of some of Chicago’s best architecture, what lies in store for postmodernist landmark the James R. Thompson Center now that Google owns it?

24 Jan 2024

Acquisitions of the Month: December 2023

A miniature copy of the Apollo Belvedere and a Mesoamerican jade statuette are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month

19 Jan 2024