How Julian Trevelyan made an art of everyday life
The British artist was a key figure in the social research movement known as Mass Observation
A game-changing expansion for the Glenstone Museum
The reopened museum in Maryland raises the bar for what we can expect from private collections
Digging down into Turkey’s Neolithic city
Communities past and present are explored in Rossella Biscotti’s film of the excavations at Çatalhöyük
‘It’s hard at this particular moment to be optimistic’ – Edward Burtynsky on the future of the planet
The Canadian photographer talks about ‘The Anthropocene Project’ and trying to capture the spirit of a new geological epoch
The dizzying mathematical designs of William De Morgan
The kaleidoscopic effects in the designer’s ceramics are largely down to his love of geometry
How four months in Martinique helped Gauguin make his name
The artist saw himself as an exotic outsider, and his voyage to the Caribbean in 1887 as a transformative experience
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October 2018
• The modern textiles of Anni Albers
• An interview with Cecily Brown
• The complex art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
• Digital technology and art history
Plus: previews of TEFAF New York Fall and Frieze Masters, Macron’s culture pass, Edward Burtynsky, and seaside piers
Remembering Robert Venturi – reluctant pioneer of postmodernism
The American architect, whose career spanned seven decades, has died at the age of 93
The colourful craft of Francis Upritchard
An inventive installation fills the Barbican’s Curve with a parade of handmade pots and hippyish characters
Berthe Morisot comes into her own
A landmark exhibition puts the painter back where she belongs – at the heart of the Impressionist movement
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Fujiko Nakaya fills Boston’s parks with fog and shadows
Boston’s Emerald Necklace is an ideal setting for the Japanese artist’s enchanting fog sculptures
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘The Islamic World: A History in Objects’ (British Museum/Thames & Hudson)
Concrete sheep and sleeping clowns at the South London Gallery
The theme of humour in contemporary art yields as many unnerving moments as laughs in a show across the gallery’s two sites
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Creating a scene on stage
How set designers and scene painters have beguiled audiences through the centuries
The remarkable career of Artemisia Gentileschi
The National Gallery’s acquisition of a work by the painter is welcome – not least because baroque women artists were long neglected
Reading the dreams of Robert Crumb
The great cartoonist is publishing 40-years’ worth of dreams and nightmares – and they’re every bit as crude as you’d image
Cubism
Centre Pompidou, Paris
From Cézanne to Duchamp – how the avant-garde movement transformed modern art
17 Oct 2018 - 25 Feb 2019
Meiji: Splendours of Imperial Japan (1868–1912)
Musée national des arts asiatiques Guimet, Paris
As Japanese society changed rapidly in the Meiji era, new artistic styles proliferated
17 Oct 2018 - 14 Jan 2019
Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
How the American artist fused different forms of abstraction in his sculptural canvases from the 1960s to the late ’90s
17 Oct 2018 - 27 Jan 2019
Fuseli: Drama and Theatre
Kunstmuseum Basel
Charting the dramatic influences on the painter known as the ‘Wild Swiss’
20 Oct 2018 - 10 Feb 2019
The oldest drawing in the world has been discovered – but is it art?
A 73,000-year-old fragment of stone marked with red lines raises questions about the nature of aesthetic experience