The other side of Surrealism
This exhibition is grotesque, kitschy, farcical, and poignant by turns, as women challenge the gendered symbolism of the Surrealists
A potted history of studio ceramics
Studio potters continue to push the boundaries of their medium in Britain
Per Kirkeby’s triumph of form over substance
The Danish artist clearly takes great delight in the physical properties of paint (and bronze, too)
Staring at the zeitgeist
August Sander’s photographs and Otto Dix’s paintings take an unflinching look at Weimar Germany
A nosey parker’s paradise in London
Pore over Matisse’s prized possessions and get a glimpse into Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s home at these fascinating exhibitions
Narrating the past, collecting for the future
For Inti Ligabue collecting tribal and oceanic art is a way of telling stories about the cultures the objects come from
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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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The widening market for Oceanic art
Once championed by the Surrealists, Oceanic art is now achieving top prices at auction and attracting an increasingly diverse collector base
Painting for pleasure: an interview with Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann talks about capturing the moment – and explains why ‘performance art’ is a demeaning term
A sci-fi spectacular at the Barbican
This is an exhibition targeted at the senses more than the brain, more Star Wars than Stalker
The rich artistic world of Giovanni da Rimini
Very few panel paintings by the Italian Trecento artist survive. Currently, all of them are at the National Gallery in London
Inside India’s first Partition Museum
Millions were displaced and hundreds of thousands killed in the Partition of India. Seventy years on, a new museum addresses the tragedy
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Alma-Tadema deserves to be loved again
The artist has fallen so far out of critical fashion that his merits are often completely overlooked
Native American art hasn’t changed, but museums have
The Metropolitan Museum is finally showing Native art in its American galleries. This is important, but only as a reflection on museums themselves
‘My life has always been about painting’
Frank Bowling has been experimenting with paint for six decades – but it still surprises him
Zeitz MOCAA
Cape Town, South Africa
The world’s largest museum dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora opens in Cape Town’s Grain Silo Complex
22 Sep 2017
Tate St Ives
St Ives
The new gallery will finally allow Tate to permanently showcase the 20th-century artists who lived and worked in St Ives
14 Oct 2017
Museum MACAN
Jakarta
Indonesia’s first museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art opens this November
4 Nov 2017
ICA Miami
Miami
The new building and sculpture garden will act as a cultural hub for Miami’s avant-garde
1 Dec 2017
40 Under 40 Asia Pacific
The most inspirational young people in the Asia Pacific art world
Dismantling America’s monuments to white supremacy
Four Confederate monuments are to be removed from the streets of New Orleans, but their painful legacy endures