In pictures

A selection of works on show in ‘Art and Optimism in 1950s Britain’, which opens today at MIMA

After last week’s bad weather, Apollo picks a selection of stormy landscapes

We highlight some of the works currently on show in ‘The Surprised Masks: James Ensor’ at the Kunstmuseum Basel

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Impressionism, Fauvism and Expressionism: some interesting images from the new exhibition at Kunsthaus, Zürich

‘Bailey’s Stardust’ at the National Portrait Gallery opened to the public today: here’s a taster of what’s on show

A slideshow of fascinating works by Brancusi, Rosso and Man Ray at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Happy Chinese New Year

Curiouser and curiouser… unusual items from the University of Cambridge Museums

Gift of the year… Leonard A. Lauder’s promised gift of 78 Cubist artworks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a monumental offering

Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘Canyon’ joins five of his other combines at MoMA, while the Art Gallery of New South Wales acquires an Ed Ruscha

Theo Wormland’s collection of Surrealist art has been on loan to the Pinakothek der Moderne for 30 years. In 2013 it was bequeathed to the museum

Acquired at auction, this unusually large painting by Hopper joins a group of the artist’s works on paper already in the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art

Paul Jacoulet is among the few Western artists to master the Japanese art of ukiyo-e. A collection of his work goes to the Musée du Quai Branly

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens have acquired 13 pieces of furniture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

This important late work by Corot was left to the British nation by Lucian Freud, who specifically intended it for the National Gallery

This 15m scroll illustrates scenes from US Commodore Matthew Perry’s diplomatic visit to Japan in 1854, and reveals an amusing clash of cultures

‘I am told I got it to look better than anything I have yet done,’ said Constable of this iconic painting of Salisbury Cathedral

Its last owner had been using it as a television stand – now, this exquisite Japanese maki-e chest has a home at the Rijksmuseum

The Meadows Museum has acquired a virtuoso piece of baroque Spanish devotional sculpture by Juan Alonso Villabrille y Ron

As an early example of Fragonard’s work, this painting of Aurora is extremely rare. It has been acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston