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Woman with a Child in a Pantry (detail; c. 1656–60), Pieter de Hooch. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

A Delft touch – the intricate patterns of Pieter de Hooch

The Dutch painter’s courtyard and interior scenes reveal his fascination with frames, grids and lines

10 Dec 2019
The Doors (video still detail; 2019), Zach Blas.

How a small German city became a leading home for new media art

The Edith-Russ-Haus in Oldenburg is currently host to an exhibition exploring the rise of ‘nootropics’, or smart drugs, in Silicon Valley

10 Dec 2019
A lake view (1905), Akseli Gallen-Kallela.

Finnish lines – paintings from the land of a thousand lakes

Lakeside views by the painters Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Hugo Simberg are coming to auction this week

9 Dec 2019
Julia Ormond as Julia and Ben Barnes as Benjamin in Gold Digger.

From Gold Digger to Gossip Girl – meet cutes at the museum

If films and television are anything to go by, it seems the main raison to go to an art gallery is to find a date

7 Dec 2019
Detail of the south wall of the Sala di Psiche, Palazzo Te, Mantua, Giulio Romano and workshop.

‘A buffet of bums, boobs and bollocks’ – Giulio Romano at Palazzo Te

The 16th-century frescoed palace has been sexed up with a show exploring power and desire in the mannerist’s art

7 Dec 2019
Self-portrait (c. 1865), James Tissot. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

From the high life to the Life of Christ – James Tissot’s path to piety

On his 50th birthday the society painter set off for the Holy Land, experiencing something of a conversion

3 Dec 2019
The People (detail; 1922), Käthe Kollwitz.

Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics

Expressionist prints and drawings document the turbulence and wars that devastated modern Germany

Getty Center, Los Angeles
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The Grassi Museum in Leipzig.

State of Saxony returns indigenous remains to Australia

Art news daily: 29 November

29 Nov 2019
Heartland (1985), Miriam Schapiro. Orlando Museum of Art.

Pattern and Decoration – the movement that made a leitmotif of light motif

Embracing polka dot, patchwork and plenty of colour, P&D artists set out to challenge the norms of good taste

28 Nov 2019
Recreation of a baroque feasting table in c. 1650, conceived and made by Ivan Day with taxidermy by David Astley and seafood and fruit models by Tony Barton.

‘Sugar paste is very fine, finer than porcelain’ – the art of historical banquets

The food historian Ivan Day talks about the historical table settings he has recreated for an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum

25 Nov 2019

The finer points of art appreciation – and some blunt speaking – in ‘The Crown’

The Queen and Prince Philip get some art advice from Anthony Blunt in season three of the lavish drama

24 Nov 2019
The Peabody Essex Museum in 2019 with its new wing designed by Ennead Architects on the right

The Peabody Essex Museum makes a bigger splash in Salem

Thanks to the town’s seafaring merchants, the museum has one of the world’s best collections of maritime and Asian art – and a whole new wing for its display

23 Nov 2019
The Odyssey (1850), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.

Draped

From Ingres to Christo – artists have long been wrapped up in the study of fabrics

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
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The Finding of Moses (early 1630s), Orazio Gentileschi

London calling – Orazio Gentileschi’s The Finding of Moses at the court of Charles I

The National Gallery is raising funds to purchase Orazio Gentileschi’s biblical scene – once a prized possession of Queen Henrietta Maria

21 Nov 2019
Nan Goldin photographed at the Palace of Versailles in May 2019.

Personality of the Year

Nan Goldin

21 Nov 2019

Book of the Year

‘Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist’ by Elizabeth Goldring

21 Nov 2019
Self-portrait (detail; 1942), Van Leo. Van Leo Collection at the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut

Digital Innovation of the Year

Arab Image Foundation

21 Nov 2019
No.18 (1993/2019), Keith Coventry.

‘My work often has an element of humour – but it’s not particularly funny’ – an interview with Keith Coventry

The artist explains how his new lollipop-stick collages connect Pop art, Bauhaus, and ancient Athenian comedy

18 Nov 2019
Betye Saar (b. 1926), photographed in her studio in Los Angeles in 2019.

‘The way I start a piece is that the materials turn me on’ – an interview with Betye Saar

The artist discusses her stereotype-busting sculptures, and explains why major shows in Los Angeles and New York are ‘just another gig’

16 Nov 2019
The Wounded Achilles (1825), Filippo Albacini.

Troy: Myth & Reality

The legendary city has captivated both artists and archaeologists over the centuries

British Museum, London
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Book of the Year

Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered Carmen C. Bambach Yale University Press Bambach’s four-volume account of the artist’s life and work is…

15 Nov 2019
The Supper at Emmaus (detail; c. 1628), Rembrandt van Rijn.

How Rembrandt made great strides in his home town

Child prodigy he was not – but works from the painter’s youth in Leiden show that he soon made up for lost time

14 Nov 2019
In the final scene of Derek Jarman’s film The Last of England (1987), Tilda Swinton’s unnamed character destroys her wedding dress on Dungeness Beach.

English woes – Derek Jarman’s apocalyptic visions of England are as relevant as ever

Twenty-five years after his death, Jarman’s films, paintings and words are still incisive and inspiring

8 Nov 2019
Ciaran Carson.

Still lifes and Belfast streets – remembering Ciaran Carson (1948–2019)

The poet, translator and musician was also a passionate observer – and recorder – of the visual world

5 Nov 2019