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The prescient pair who created Europe’s first museum of East Asian art
Adolf and Frieda Fischer’s globetrotting led to their founding the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst in Cologne
A history of Bruges in 20,000 objects
The gothic heart of Bruges now beats a little faster at the renovated Gruuthusemuseum
Class act – a new look for Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art
From Assyrian carvings to contemporary African art, the museum’s wide-ranging collection has a recently expanded home
Sun, sea and sand – Sorolla’s dazzling visions of Spain
The Valencian painter is little known in the UK, but a survey at the National Gallery is set to change this
Large Asian art collection donated to the University of Texas at Dallas
Art news daily: 25 January
Vienna’s new window on the world
The city’s ethnographic museum has been reimagined to explain how its exceptional collections migrated to the city
The Cerruti Collection – from closed volume to open book
The private collection of Francesco Federico Cerruti will prove a revelation when it goes on show in Turin
Celebrity collections kick off the autumn auctions
The personal collections of Edward Albee, Vivien Leigh and Mario Testino come to the block this month
Sir David Tang (1954–2017)
Tang was well known as an entrepreneur, a socialite, and a columnist; he was also a leading art collector and patron of the arts
Narrating the past, collecting for the future
For Inti Ligabue collecting tribal and oceanic art is a way of telling stories about the cultures the objects come from
A new look for a 19th-century museum in Nantes
The Musée d’arts de Nantes reveals its new extension and rehangs its collection, making seamless connections between past and present
The National Gallery of Ireland enters a new era
The National Gallery of Ireland’s six-year-long refurbishment gives its Old Masters and Irish paintings a chance to shine
Is LA’s art scene growing too quickly?
In the last few years LA’s art scene has grown immeasurably. But as rents rise and experimental spaces get priced out, is LA’s arrival on the international art stage worth it?
Ed Sheeran has a Van Gogh moment
A portrait of the singer-songwriter has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in London
Learning from the Wallace Collection
The joy of the Wallace Collection is that there’s always more to learn about its holdings – but its new exhibition space is welcome