Street-smart – how Keith Haring took art out of the gallery
From subway drawings to T-shirt designs, the artist was determined to make his work accessible to all
‘Thomas Mawson’s designs are never nostalgic’
The civic-mindedness of the visionary landscape designer and architect set him apart from his contemporaries
In a Morris Minor key – Michael Collins presents the lost world of family slides
The photographer talks to Apollo about three decades of collecting other people’s family slides
‘Russian to a T’ – Natalia Goncharova at Tate Modern, reviewed
Avant-garde as she was, the artist was also deeply influenced by Russian folk traditions and history
‘Drawing in space’ – the ingenious structures of David Smith
The AbEx sculptor found endless possibilities in the welding and painting of steel
A haunting resurrection of the man who invented jazz
New Orleans bandleader Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden cuts an enigmatic figure in John Akomfrah’s elegiac film
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Pairing Chinese calligraphy with performance art in the Chianti Valley
A display of ink painting in action launched Tuscan wine country’s annual art event
Meet the beetles! The insect drawings of Joris Hoefnagel
The Dutch polymath’s lifelike drawings are masterpieces of wit and invention
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July/August 2019
• Félix Fénéon: anarchist and champion of African art
• An interview with the sculptor David Nash
• Art after the lunar landings
• The artists who have tried to capture Moby Dick
Plus: Tal R at the seaside, a preview of Parcours des Mondes, and reviews of Leonardo in London, Maria Lassnig in Amsterdam, and the unsung art of Milein Cosman
Acquisitions of the month: June 2019
Chippendale furniture and early photographs of the Caribbean are among this month’s highlights
‘When you put black people in a picture, what should they be doing?’ – an interview with Kerry James Marshall
The painter talks about setting himself technical challenges and taking on the Western art tradition
‘Rich insights into a restless mind’ – Leonardo’s drawings at the Queen’s Gallery
Leonardo’s art may be universal, but his notes and sketches also reveal a man firmly rooted in his age
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From Dickens to Dada – a marvellous mishmash of collage across time
The first show ever to focus on the art of cutting and pasting offers an impressively expansive view of the practice
The Met’s French masterpieces now have the catalogue they deserve
Katharine Baetjer’s catalogue is a focused account of the museum’s 18th-century French paintings
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Runway successes – the appeal of fashion exhibitions in museums
Celebrations of costumes and couture are more popular than ever, but is there more to these shows than spectacle?
Discovering an underwater trove of gifts to the gods
An ancient ceremonial site at Lake Titicaca offers a glimpse into the lives and faith of a pre-Inca people
Bowled over – the painted pots of the ancient Mimbres people
Around a thousand years ago in the American Southwest, a highly sophisticated ceramic tradition emerged
The postcards that paved the way for the Russian Revolution
Anti-tsarist postcards were an important, and often beautiful, form of radical propaganda in Imperial Russia
Garden of Earthly Delights
Gropius Bau, Berlin
Bosch’s famous triptych is the jumping-off point for this inquiry into artistic uses of gardens
26 Jul - 1 Dec 2019
Trisha Brown: Time, Space, Gravity
Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
Delving into the archive of the postmodern choreographer and dancer
27 Jul - 29 Sep 2019
The Colmar Treasure: A Medieval Jewish Legacy
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Examining the hoard of jewellery and coins found hidden in the walls of a home in medieval France
22 Jul 2019 - 12 Jan 2020
Last Supper in Pompeii
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
An immersive look at the ancient Romans’ relationship to dining and agriculture
25 Jul 2019 - 12 Jan 2020
Deciphering the EU’s new rules on the import of cultural goods
Regardless of Brexit, new regulations aimed at curbing illicit trafficking are going to make buying and selling art more complicated