Rethinking the utopian vision of the Bauhaus
The Bauhaus’s radical designs were meant for the masses, but they were far from affordable
The museum pieces that every school kid needs to see
Leading figures pick objects from UK collections that should be seen by every child in the country
A great 16th-century Qur’an gets the attention it deserves
A meticulous study of the Chester Beatty Ruzbihan Qur’an does justice to the ingenuity of its calligrapher
Artistic strategies on China’s new Silk Road
The second Yinchuan Biennale is part of an official drive to open up the city to international visitors
The Wellcome sinks its teeth into the history of dentistry
A fascinating display takes us from the patron saint of toothaches to public health campaigns in the 1940s
The enigmatic visions of Odilon Redon
A new exhibition suggests that Redon’s pictures owe as much to literature and music as they do to the visual arts
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July/August 2018
• All change at the Horniman Museum
• An interview with Mary Corse
• Westminster Abbey’s new galleries
• Theatrical set design through the ages
Plus: Parcours des Mondes preview, Sargent in the Holy Land, Göbekli Tepe up close, and George Devey’s country houses
How Monet’s water lilies took root across the pond
The French painter’s late style influenced a generation of American Abstract Expressionists
The great West African kingdom that made its mark in gold
An exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art places the powerfully symbolic gold objects of the Asante peoples centre stage
Trevor Paglen reveals the hidden networks that rule our lives
The artist’s subjects include drones, undersea cables and a sculptural satellite in space
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How the church-building boom of the 19th century began
Two hundred years ago, the English parliament passed the Act for Building New Churches, allocating £1m for the task
A fresh look at Frida Kahlo
By placing the artist’s possessions next to her portraits, the V&A seeks to reveal the woman behind the icon
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism’ by Whitney Chadwick (Thames & Hudson)
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Chantal Joffe on painting, pastel and parenthood
An interview with the British artist, renowned for expressive portraits of family, friends and fellow artists
The contradictory career of Decimus Burton
The architect was once best known for his neoclassical buildings, but his reputation now rests on the glasshouses at Kew Gardens
Are museums too preoccupied by visitor numbers?
League tables of museum visitor numbers may generate a lot of media coverage – but do they distract institutions from other priorities?
Herstory
Touchstones Rochdale
Work by women artists from the 1960s to the present day, drawn from the collection of Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
28 Jul - 29 Sep 2018
Iridescence
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York
How designers working with ceramic, glass and jewellery have been inspired by the phenomenon of iridescence
28 Jul 2018 - 24 Mar 2019
The Art of Influence: Propaganda Postcards from the Era of World Wars
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Mass-produced postcards were a key means of disseminating propaganda in the first half of the 20th century
28 Jul 2018 - 21 Jan 2019
From Tiepolo to Canaletto and Guardi
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Rich colours and picturesque cityscapes abound in this display of Venetian rococo paintings
24 Jul - 14 Oct 2018
40 Under 40 Asia Pacific
The most inspirational young people in the Asia Pacific art world
Museum leadership in a time of crisis
Why we need agile cultural leadership to meet the challenges of a volatile world