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Tracing art from impressionism through to abstract expressionism, and from Ohio to Adelaide

A feast of modern art from the Toledo Museum of Art has just opened at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

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Rare masterpieces from former Tottenham FC owner's collection head to auction in London

The collection, belonging to billionaire and former Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis, features masterpieces by Modigliani, Klimt, Picasso and Freud.

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Modigliani painting leads collection worth more than £200m being auctioned

The 48 works carry the highest estimate for any single-owner collection ever offered at auction in Europe.

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Megamurals, Guerrilla Girls and something rotten in the Oval Office – the week in art

Poland’s leading figurative artist de-faces Trump, a young Irish-Japanese painter tricks London’s perceptions and the UK’s street art is captured – all in your weekly dispatch

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Churchill’s desk and rare artwork among items donated to UK cultural institutions

Items worth £59.7m allocated to museums, galleries, libraries and archives as part of Arts Council England scheme

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The Scharf Collection opens for its first large-scale exhibition in Berlin

The iconic collection will feature more than 150 artworks by major artists like Manet, Degas and Picasso.

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‘It makes me sick!’ How the French impressionists went from ‘lunatics’ to luminaries

The National Gallery of Victoria’s new show French Impressionism celebrates the likes of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot and Pissarro, who painted in the face of public outrage

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‘There are too many unpleasant things in life without creating more’: why Impressionism is the world’s favourite art movement

Impressionism is the world’s favourite art movement.

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Period scenes set mood for Impressionist masterpieces

An exhibition of French Impressionist masterpieces from a Boston museum has returned to Australia after closing early in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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"Climate Activist Found Guilty in Defacing Degas Exhibit at National Gallery of Art"

From Tuesday's Justice Department press release: Timothy Martin, 55, of Raleigh, North Carolina, was found guilty by a federal jury… The post "Climate Activist Found Guilty in Defacing Degas Exhibit at National Gallery of Art" appeared first on Reason.com.

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Even if France’s budget doesn’t tackle the public deficit, let’s give thanks it exists

Politics have sunk so low since Emmanuel Macron’s snap election, we’re just grateful when foretold catastrophes don’t materialise

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Vive L’impressionnisme! at the Van Gogh Museum: a compelling, eco-conscious celebration of impressionism

Despite its corny title, Vive L’Impressionnisme!, which recently opened at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, is well worth seeing. Marking the 150th anniversary of the first impressionist exhibition, the show tells the story of how one of the movement’s founders, Claude Monet, and his contemporaries were supported by a…

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Glenn Ligon: All Over the Place review – Black art disruptor shakes down the museum

Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeThe US artist has rifled the Fitzwilliam’s collections and ruffled the calm of its gilded masterpieces with playful unruliness and stark, neon-lit questions

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Six Lives at the National Portrait Gallery review: Henry VIII still looms large in this celebration of his wives

This exhibition tries to present each of the six wives as feisty and interesting, with mixed results

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Discover Degas & Miss La La; Nan Goldin: Sisters, Saints, Sibyls – review

Degas’s masterpiece gives up its secrets in a fascinating show, while Nan Goldin pays powerful tribute to her sister, who took her own life at 18

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Five of the biggest summer exhibitions around the UK – what you should see this week

This article was first published in our email newsletter Something Good, which every fortnight brings you a summary of the best things to watch, visit and read, as recommended and analysed by academic experts. Click here to receive the newsletter direct to your inbox.

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Discovering Degas: new exhibition in Glasgow reveals boldness and foresight of early British collectors

In 1891, an exhibition titled A Small Collection of Works by Degas and Others opened in London, before travelling up to Glasgow. It was organised by the Scottish art dealer Alexander Reid, who had recently returned from Paris.

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Climate activist who defaced Edgar Degas sculpture exhibit sentenced

A federal judge sentenced Joanna Smith to 60 days in prison for smearing paint on the case surrounding Edgar Degas' Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen at the National Gallery of Art.

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As France celebrates, it doesn’t seem like 150 years since the first impressionist exhibition

A major exhibition opens at the Musée d’Orsay and there are shows and festivals across the country

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‘It’s time to re-examine its radical nature’: Paris to celebrate 150 years of impressionism

Musée d’Orsay to open a major show to throw new light on the 1874 exhibition that marked the advent of avant-garde art

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Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec review – a show full of surprises

From Monet’s pastel sunsets to a beautifully bleak Van Gogh landscape and Pissarro’s summer orchard, the RA gathers fragile, rarely seen works, many made at speed, out and about and up close

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Impressionists on Paper review – Van Gogh sets this rambling show on fire

Sterile sketches by Monet, Degas and Renoir make you grateful they mostly stuck to painting – but Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh’s empathy and emotion steal the show

Evening Standard

Impressionists on Paper at the Royal Academy will shed light (but not too bright) on a seismic shift in art

The museum's forthcoming exhibition is a chance to see fragile works that won't travel again for many years

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‘It’s a very rich story’: the complicated connection between Manet and Degas

An expansive new exhibition at the Met explores the fractious personal and professional relationship between two titans of the French art world

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