Cambridge schedules Alyce Mahon talk on Dorothea Tanning study
The 23 November event will consider Mahon’s account of how Tanning tested Surrealism’s conventions across painting, sculpture and writing.
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Lempertz to show both faces of Koerbecke altarpiece wing together
The auction house says the paintings, separated when a double-sided panel was split in 1936, will be publicly reunited in Cologne on 21 November, each estimated at €200,000-€300,000.
Philadelphia Museum of Art receives $20m for learning centre
The planned north-wing project is intended to expand space for school groups, families and hands-on learning, with a design expected by summer 2027.
Karl Weschke and the other story of St Ives
A forthcoming book by Matt Retallick revisits the German-born painter’s place in Cornwall, with new research on Peter Lanyon’s art school and Francis Bacon.
Biographer argues Hopper’s six early oils copied printed models
Louis Shadwick traces five pre-art-school paintings to published images and argues that posthumous titles created a disputed link between two of them and Hopper’s childhood town of Nyack.
El Escorial’s Painting and Architecture Museums reopen after ten years
A €3.1 million renovation has returned the museums to public use, with a rehang of around 100 paintings tracing the formation of the Royal Collections across four centuries.
JHNA publishes Volume 18.1, including disputed Vermeer attributions
The open-access issue brings together studies of Hapsburg patronage, Rubens’s globes, Rembrandt print paper and the authorship of two paintings associated with Johannes Vermeer.
Trust says Tate St Ives survey will centre on Barns-Graham’s glacier works
Due to open on 24 October 2026, the retrospective is scheduled to bring together more than 170 works and archival items from an eight-decade career.
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A Crayfish, a Beam of Light and the Pensionante del Saraceni - An anonymous painter emerging from the shadows
Very, very slow to this but 'new' attribution to Pensionante del Saraceni seems entirely convincing. A striking Caravaggesque painting now with Colnaghi invites a fresh look at one of the most elusive painters of early seventeenth-century Rome - and at just how closely he may have understood Caravaggio's art.
Appeal court orders restoration at Château de La Barben
According to La Tribune de l’Art, SAS Rocher Mistral and Vianney d’Alançon must remove unauthorised alterations and restore the site within a year.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Proposed Goya heads for Prado study, with attribution still open
Bought as a Bayeu in Madrid, the religious painting has attracted institutional interest and expert reservations. Its auction history remains incomplete.