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Acquisitions of the Month: May 2016
May’s acquisitions include rare signed etchings by Picasso and photography by the Victorian pioneer Oscar Gustav Rejlander
The musical forms of Fausto Melotti
Fausto Melotti’s sculptures ingeniously blur the line between figurative and abstract forms and his work deserves to be better known
‘Conservative in art, radical in politics’: James Boswell and the Artists’ International Association
Boswell’s acutely observed satires sum up the social and political issues of the 1930s
Going it alone in the modern city
Olivia Laing’s book on the art of loneliness has some excellent insights, but who is it meant for?
While the world watches Palmyra, another of Syria’s heritage sites risks destruction
The Church of Saint Simeon near Aleppo is the greatest treasure of the Christian-Byzantine era in Syria – but it’s suffered extensive damage
The man who gathered the many moods of Venice
Vittorio Cini collected remarkable Venetian paintings, which have never been publicly exhibited together – until now
Danny Lyon
Message to the Future This is the first comprehensive retrospective of the career of Danny Lyon (b. 1942) to be presented…
Vik Muniz: Verso
In the Mauritshuis’ first exhibition of contemporary art in its history, Vik Muniz looks not at the front of several paintings, but their back
Around the galleries: what to watch out for this month
Collaboration is the order of the day in Brussels and Paris, where several art fairs are joining forces. Meanwhile, London gears up for Art16
How do you capture a colour? Interview with Ettore Spalletti
The Italian artist discusses his distinctive palette and what he owes to Yves Klein
SFMOMA reopens at the heart of San Francisco’s booming art scene
With 3,000 new works, a major extension, and an ingenious way of working with collectors, SFMOMA is becoming a modern art museum to rival all others
Selfies, sexuality and self-parody: when artists perform for the camera
Artists recognised the power of the staged image long before Instagram came along
Megan Piper and the young gallerists making their mark on London
The contemporary art gallerist’s alliance with an antiques dealer epitomises the changing art world
Marisol Escobar: 1930–2016
Marisol’s powerful, Pop-inspired sculptures deserve to be far better known, particularly outside the US
Glenn Brown
‘Glenn Brown’ is the first US, one-person, survey exhibition of the London-based painter. Reproductions of canonical paintings culled from art…
Manuele Cerutti and the fine art of balancing
The everyday objects in Cerutti’s Turin studio are transformed in his paintings: poised, precarious, and forever in suspense
Fashion and Freedom
One of the most radical changes at home during the war was the huge change in women’s lives and work.…
Pills, thrills and (musical) bellyaches: lunch, the Damien Hirst way
Rakewell enjoys lunches Damien Hirst’s new Pharmacy 2 restaurant – if only the waiters would provide earplugs to drown out the ’90s soundtrack
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Art slides and crazy golf in London, and Giacometti’s Jezza phase
The growing craze for American folk art
Collectors love it for its graphic power – and Europe’s growing interest in outsider art could widen the market
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