Huge fashion photography archive heads this month's acquisition round-up

"The vast archive of the New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham has found a home at The New York Historical nearly a decade after his death in 2016. Cunningham was a bicycle-riding fixture on Manhattan's streets and high-society events circuit for 50 years. His archive includes tens of thousands of images capturing the city's changing style (including the picture, right, of photographer Editta Sherman), as well as negatives, slides, contact sheets, correspondence and documentation going back to his early career in millinery."

"The Getty Museum has doubled its holdings of Italian illuminated manuscript leaves thanks to a gift of 38 Medieval and Renaissance illuminations from the California couple T. Robert Burke and Katherine States Burke. Spanning from the 12th to the 17th centuries, the tempera paintings once adorned the pages of Christian choir books, depicting religious scenes such as the Nativity and St Michael defeating the devil (right)."

Bill Cunningham's vast photographic archive from his five-decade career has been placed at The New York Historical. The archive contains tens of thousands of images, negatives, slides, contact sheets, correspondence and documentation tracing back to his early millinery work. Friends donated personal objects, including his bicycle and blue worker's jacket, and an in-depth exhibition is planned for the museum's new wing. The Getty Museum received 38 Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscript leaves, expanding Italian holdings with tempera paintings from the 12th to 17th centuries depicting Nativity and St Michael. Rene9 Magritte's Le Palais de Rideaux (1928) appears at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, accompanied by the remark, "We are surrounded by curtains. We perceive the world only from behind a curtain of appearances."

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