What not to miss at the world’s leading photography festival
This year’s Les Rencontres d’Arles ranges from Joel Meyerowitz’s street photography to repurposed statues of Lenin in Ukraine
An outbreak of talent in Great Bardfield
Ravilious, Garwood, Bawden, Binyon… Why were so many artists drawn to a village in Essex?
Italian painting takes a bow in northern France
Picardy’s magnificent collections of Italian paintings shine in a series of exhibitions
Out of the kitchen and into the gallery
Emma Hart’s installation at the Whitechapel proclaims a feminine aesthetic that reaches far beyond the domestic
Collaboration and conversation in Ljubljana
A shared belief in the democratic possibilities of print makes for an optimistic biennial
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July/August 2017
• An interview with Carolee Schneemann
• D.H. Lawrence among the Etruscans
• Antiquities debates in Israel
• A potted history of studio ceramics
PLUS: tribal art, French symbolism, Raqib Shaw and much more
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Joseph Beuys’s boxing career
Waddington Custot celebrates Beuys’s boxing skills, while a mysterious British artist steals the show at Bagshawe Fine Art
The political backdrop to Jirō Takamatsu’s art
The Japanese artist deserves to be better known in Britain, but his playful, political work suffers out of context
The Apollo podcast: Amanda Levete
Thomas Marks talks to architect Amanda Levete about the V&A’s Exhibition Road Quarter, designed by her practice AL_A
Scared of the modern?
The British realists of the 1920s and ’30s scrupulously recorded the modern era – but in doing so, they were also avoiding it
The London museum having a whale of a time
The blue whale skeleton installed at Natural History Museum is proving as popular as Dippy the Diplodocus
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What the Minotaur can tell us about Picasso
An exhibition documenting Picasso’s obsession with minotaurs and matadors is a curatorial triumph
Digital replicas are not soulless – they help us engage with art
Rather than seeing replicas as knock-offs, we should think of them like maps or models
Fifty years of The Velvet Underground
It tanked in 1967, but the band’s debut album, produced by Andy Warhol, was still the best pop cultural achievement of its decade
Is Documenta exploiting the economic crisis in Athens?
This year Documenta will be split between Kassel and Athens. Is this ‘crisis tourism’ or will it spotlight the city’s overlooked contemporary art scene?
2D/3D
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
Works from the sculpture centre’s own collection reveal the fascinating interplay between sculpture, painting and drawing
29 Jul - 1 Oct 2017
The Toy Box: From Pop to Present
The Civic, Barnsley
How toys have influenced contemporary art and design over the past five decades
29 Jul - 23 Sep 2017
Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
From paintings of performers to set designs, the stage was an important influence on Chagall’s work
31 Jul 2017 - 7 Jan 2018
Picasso: Ceramics from the Attenborough Collection
York Art Gallery
A great collection of Picasso’s ceramic works goes on display at the Centre of Ceramic Art in York
28 Jul - 5 Nov 2017
40 Under 40 Asia Pacific
The most inspirational young people in the Asia Pacific art world
Drawings that change our view of Gainsborough
Twenty-five drawings once thought to be by Edwin Landseer have been attributed to Gainsborough. What does this ‘promotion’ tell us about both artists?