Italian painting takes a bow in northern France
Picardy’s magnificent collections of Italian paintings shine in an imaginative 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
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
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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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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
The unsolved mysteries of Alberto Giacometti
Giacometti’s art seems as enigmatic as ever in this survey of the sculptor’s work at Tate Modern
The rogue art of Sky Atlantic’s Riviera
The TV thriller Riviera unfolds after the murder of a top art collector
Alma-Tadema deserves to be loved again
The artist has fallen so far out of critical fashion that his merits are often completely overlooked
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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
A history of Algeria in seven stops
A major archaeological discovery has put Algeria’s history in the spotlight. What can its existing world heritage sites tell us about the country’s past?
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
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 Angles 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
The real threat to Northern Ireland’s museums
Funding cuts are a danger, but it’s the more insidious changes to the structure and attitude of public sector that we should really worry about