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Luca Giordano (1634-1705) Allégorie de la Justice Huile sur toile - 99,9 x 96 cm Londres, National Gallery Photo : National Gallery Voir l´image dans sa page Source. 
Getty Center.© 2005 J. Paul Getty Trust Photo: Stanley Smith Source. Getty outlines autumn programme at the Center and Villa
The 24 September announcement links performances, family activities and food events to current exhibitions, before the Getty Center’s temporary renovation closure begins in March 2027.
Holbeins Witt - Alexander Marr Source. Alexander Marr publishes study of Holbein’s visual wit
‘Holbein’s Wit’, published by Brepols in 2026, examines jokes, paradoxes and ambiguity in Hans Holbein the Younger’s art.
The Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia, Peter Paul Rubens en Jan Brueghel de Oude, ca. 1615. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado Olieverf op doek, 113 x 175.8 cm Source. Rijksmuseum and Prado plan research partnership on women in art and history
A postdoctoral fellowship is scheduled to begin in September 2027, followed by a Rijksmuseum exhibition on female leadership in the Habsburg Netherlands in 2029.
Lucas Cranach the Elder's Adam and Eve (around 1530) Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CaliforniaNorton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California Source. Two Nazi-loot claims may test California restitution statute
Suits over Cranach’s ‘Adam and Eve’ and seven portraits made under coercion at Auschwitz were filed two days before the state law’s filing window expired.
Oud Holland – Journal for Art of the Low Countries Source. New Oud Holland issue includes studies of Van de Venne and Rachel Ruysch
CODART’s notice for volume 139, number 3 highlights marriage-lottery satires and the blue ground of a 1742 floral still life.
Cover shown by Art Publishing for Patrick Heron: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, edited by Andrew Wilson.Art Publishing Source. Patrick Heron catalogue raisonné listed for May 2027
Art Publishing says Andrew Wilson’s planned four-volume reference work will catalogue more than 1,000 paintings, with provenance and exhibition records for each entry.
Archimedes, Oil on canvas, 75 x 61 cm Private Collectionhttps://www.thecaravaggio.com Source. Researchers propose Caravaggio and Minniti attribution for Archimedes
Another day, another dubious Caravaggio attribution. Researchers have proposed that a privately owned painting of Archimedes was begun by Caravaggio and completed by his associate Mario Minniti. The case was presented at a symposium in Monaco on 16 May 2026, with the researchers dating the 75 × 61cm oil on canvas to 1608-1610.
Dame Barbara Hepworth, Small Form (Amulet) 1960Sotheby's Source. 1960 Hepworth leads Sotheby's Modern British sale
20cm wide white alabaster carved by Barbara Hepworth estimated between £600-800,000 guaranteed with an irrevocable bid.
Thomas Gainsborough Giovanna Baccelli exhibited 1782 Tate Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1975Tate Source. Tate Britain schedules Gainsborough survey for 2027
The planned exhibition will bring together 120 paintings and drawings for the 300th anniversary of Thomas Gainsborough’s birth, Tate says.
David Hockney, My Parents, 1977. Tate. Purchased 1981Tate Source. Tate Britain schedules David Hockney exhibition developed with the artist
Tate says its 2027 exhibition, planned with Hockney before his death in June 2026, will bring together more than 200 works on love, friendship and creative relationships.
Vanessa Bell Self-Portrait c.1915. (detail) Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund © estate of Vanessa Bell. All rights reserved, DACS 2025; Duncan Grant Self-Portrait [of Duncan Grant] c.1920 (detail) Private Collection © estate of Duncan Grant.All rights reserved, DACS 2026 Source. Tate Britain schedules Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant exhibition
Organised with Charleston, the exhibition is planned to examine the Bloomsbury artists’ partnership through more than 300 works and a restaging of their Sussex studio.
Rembrandt van Rijn, Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, 1633. On loan from a private collectionKelly Schenk Source. Rijksmuseum attributes ‘Vision of Zacharias’ to Rembrandt
The Amsterdam museum says a two-year examination supports its attribution of the 1633 painting, absent from expert study after 1961, to the young Rembrandt.
Gerrit van Honthorst ‘Head of a smiling girl (Venus)’Sothebys Source. Beautiful Honthorst fragment coming up at Sotheby’s once attributed to Leyster
The auction house estimates ‘Head of a Smiling Girl’ at US$60,000-US$80,000. Its catalogue records two earlier Christie’s sales that erroneously attributed the painting as Judith Leyster.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Titus, the Artist's Son, about 1657© The Wallace Collection Source. Wallace Collection schedules Rembrandt and Titus exhibition for 2027
The ticketed collaboration with the Rijksmuseum is planned to reunite Rembrandt’s portraits of his son Titus with self-portraits and loans from five other institutions.
NOTE FROM BARNS-GRAHAM TO BEN NICHOLSON WRITTEN USING HER BACKWARDS WRITING TECHNIQUE, TATE ARCHIVETATE ARCHIVE Source. Trust research revises Barns-Graham’s early exhibition record
Mattea Gernentz’s placement is confirming works and appearances from archival evidence, including Barns-Graham’s participation in a 1968 Demarco Gallery exhibition identified in a Scottish archive.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526/27-1569), A storm on the River Schelde with a view of Antwerp, c.1555. Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Image: Courtauld Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526/27-1569), A storm on the River Schelde with a view of Antwerp, c.1555. Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Image: CourtauldImage: Courtauld Source. Courtauld schedules Rego, Turner and O’Keeffe exhibitions for 2027
The London gallery’s newly announced programme also includes drawing displays and painted wardrobe panels attributed to Vanessa Bell, donated after more than a century in one family.
Conservation of Monet's The Seine at Port-Villez (1894)Photo © Tate (Sianna Clark) Source. Tate Modern schedules first Monet exhibition for spring 2027
*Monet: Painting Time* is planned to bring together more than 60 paintings, including 20 Water Lilies, while Tate conservators remove yellowed varnish from a collection picture.
PETER LANYON (1918-1964) Cloud Base signed and dated 'Lanyon/62' (centre right), signed again, inscribed and dated again 'CLOUD/BASE/Lanyon May 62' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 48 x 72 in. (121.9 x 182.8 cm.) Painted in 1962Christie's Source. Peter Lanyon’s Cloud Base leads our picks from the Peter Simon collection
An rare early Ben Nicholson relief, an early carved Hepworth torso, Bomberg’s sensational Toledo and an Auerbach charcoal head give Christie’s October sale an exceptionally strong British contingent.
Domenico Tintoretto, Judith and Holofernes, 1577–85. Oil on canvas, 198 × 325 cm. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.Image: Museo Nacional del Prado. Source. Reported Prado cleaning renews attention to Domenico Tintoretto’s Judith
A dated photograph documents conservation in 2025. The Prado records later retouching, possibly by the artist, but the treatment’s chronology remains unclear.
