Acquisitions of the Month: November 2022
Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch of a grumpy woman and an elaborate art nouveau tea set once owned by Karl Lagerfeld are among this month’s highlights
The Belvedere. 300 Years a Place of Art
A display in Vienna charts the history of one of the world’s first public museums
Horror in the Modernist Block
Contemporary artists explore the fearful potential of architecture at Ikon gallery in Birmingham
Helen Frankenthaler: Painterly Constellations
The American abstract painter’s soak-stain canvases and vivid works on paper get their first showing in Germany for more than 20 years
Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art
The Met celebrates the inventiveness with which ancient Maya artists depicted the life cycles of their gods
Exhibition of the Year
Donatello: the Renaissance Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence 19 March–31 July With some 130 works, this was…
Acquisition of the Year
Apollo’s longer selection of the year’s most important museum acquisitions will be published in the January 2023 issue British Museum More…
Digital Innovation of the Year
ArtCentrica Founded in March by Florentine digital-imaging company Centrica, this start-up is seeking to transform the way that art is…
Artist of the Year
Francis Alÿs Francis Alÿs’s projects spanning installation, video, painting, and drawing pursue anthropological and geopolitical concerns by sending up the…
Museum Opening of the Year
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Richelieu, Paris Reopened September 2022 After a 12-year, €250m restoration of the 18th-century site, the…
Book of the Year
The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss Getty…
Max Beckmann – Departure
A show in Munich explores how the German modernist captured the upheavals of his war-torn era
Rose Wylie: picky people notice…
The British painter’s characterful figures go on show at S.M.A.K. in Ghent
The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture
The Henry Moore Institute considers how the 19th-century vogue for polychrome sculpture reflected the rapid social changes of the era
Fernand Léger and the Rooftops of Paris
How smoke and chimneys inspired the French Cubist to take a more experimental approach to making art
Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice
The Renaissance painter’s talent for story-telling is the focus of this retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope
The Polish artist’s monumental woven sculptures get the spotlight at Tate Modern
The Glitter and Poison of the Twenties: George Grosz in Berlin
The German artist’s visceral satires of 1920s Berlin go on show in Stuttgart
Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection
The Denver Art Museum explores how Japanese women artists flew in the face of social conventions
Louis Boulanger, Painter of Dreams
A close friend of Victor Hugo, this painter made his own key contribution to Romanticism
Making Modernism: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin
The Royal Academy shines a light on the women artists who were central to the development of German Expressionism
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