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April 20, 2023
Forms of Life: Hilma af Klint and Mondrian Meet at Tate Modern
Tate Modern paired two pioneers of abstraction — the long-overlooked Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian — in a revelatory…
April 9, 2023
Georgia O'Keeffe: Learning to See, Slowly
MoMA's 2023 exhibition 'To See Takes Time' focused on Georgia O'Keeffe's drawings, tracing how America's great modernis…
April 8, 2023
Celebrating Picasso, 50 Years After His Death
In 2023, museums across Europe and the US marked half a century since Picasso's death with dozens of exhibitions — and…
April 1, 2023
A Gift to the Nation: Gerhard Richter's Rooms in Berlin
In 2023 Germany's greatest living painter, Gerhard Richter, gave a major group of works to Berlin's national museums, s…
April 1, 2023
India's Glamorous New Stage: The NMACC Opens in Mumbai
In 2023 Mumbai gained a vast new cultural centre, the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, with ambitions to put Indian…
February 15, 2023
Britain's Beloved Giant: Angel of the North Turns 25
In 2023, Antony Gormley's monumental 'Angel of the North' marked 25 years watching over Gateshead — a once-controversia…
February 11, 2023
Sculpting the Renaissance: Donatello at the V&A
London's V&A staged a landmark 2023 exhibition on Donatello, the Florentine genius who reinvented sculpture at the dawn…
February 10, 2023
The Vermeer of a Lifetime: Amsterdam's Record-Breaking Blockbuster
The Rijksmuseum gathered 28 of the world's roughly 37 surviving Vermeers — the largest ever — and made history: 650,000…
February 1, 2023
Spain's Painter of Sunlight: Sorolla at 100
In 2023 Spain marked a century since the death of Joaquín Sorolla, the master of dazzling Mediterranean light and breez…
December 7, 2022
Turner Prize 2022: Veronica Ryan and the Quiet Power of Seeds and Shells
Sculptor Veronica Ryan won the 2022 Turner Prize, the same year she unveiled Britain's first permanent public monument…
November 19, 2022
A Machine Dreams in MoMA's Lobby
Refik Anadol's 'Unsupervised', a hypnotic AI artwork trained on MoMA's collection, turned the museum's lobby into a swi…
November 12, 2022
Maple Syrup on a Masterpiece: Climate Protest in Canada
In late 2022 the climate protests targeting famous art reached Canada, where activists poured maple syrup over an Emily…