Before and After Coal
Forty years after the calling of the miner’s strike, Milton Rogovin’s photographs of Scottish miners shows how much the UK’s industrial landscape has changed
Ibrahim Mahama: Songs about Roses
At Fruitmarket Gallery, the artist takes a defunct railway built by the British in Ghana in the 1920s as his starting point
National Treasures: Vermeer in Edinburgh
As part of its bicentenary celebrations, the National Gallery in London has sent a painting by Vermeer to Edinburgh to keep another work by the artist company
Bruce McLean: I Want My Crown
The Scottish conceptual artist who is not afraid to make fun of the art world has an 80th birthday show at Modern One
In the studio with… Eduardo Terrazas
The Mexican artist, known for his woven works that borrow from folk-art traditions, listens to Bach and Rosalía while working in his studio in Colonia Roma, Mexico City
New British Museum director seems to support loaning Parthenon marbles to Greece
Plus: UK government reintroduces Holocaust Memorial Bill; and video artist Bill Viola has died at the age of 73
Wu Tsang: The Big Lie of Death
The artist’s new film installation at MACBA is inspired by Bizet’s Carmen and themes of performance, death and tragedy
Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent
The artist has been at the forefront of activist art in Britain for half a century, as this exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery attests
The Art of Ink Rubbings: Impressions of Chinese Culture
Ink rubbing, a method of copying the texture of an object’s surface, originated in China as early as 600 BC and is the subject of a new show at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Mass of Pope Gregory Panels
At the Wadsworth Atheneum, two 16th-century panels showing the miracle of Saint Gregory bring up thorny questions of attribution and conservation
In the studio with… Joy Labinjo
The artist observes a long working day in her studio in Harringay, but enjoys listening to bashment, riding her Peloton and thumbing through books by Kerry James Marshall
Former British Museum director to head new museum in Saudi Arabia
Plus: the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundations get a new president, and a 4,000-year-old temple and theatre complex is unearthed in northern Peru
Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body
To coincide with the Paris Olympics, the Fitzwilliam looks at the cultural ramifications of when the city last hosted the event
Elisabeth Frink: Natural Connection
Yorkshire Sculpture Parks presents the works on paper, plasters – and the bronze sculptures for which the artist is best known – that entered its collection in 2020
The Whispering Land: Artists in Correspondence with Nature
At the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, five Japanese artists try to bring the human and natural worlds into better harmony
Cold War Scotland
Geography made Scotland a key location during this period of geopolitical tension. National Museums Scotland looks at the relics of this recent past
The Labour Party has won the UK general election – and Lisa Nandy is the new culture secretary
Plus: Documenta appoints new search committee for an artist director | Jacqueline de Jong (1939–2024)
Frans Hals: Master of the Fleeting Moment
This travelling Frans Hals exhibition makes its merry way to the Gemäldegalerie, where paintings by the master are placed alongside more recent works
Seeing the time in colour: The challenges of photography
This exhibition at the Pompidou-Metz provides a panoramic yet pinpoint-sharp overview of the history of photography
Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan
Some 200 works drawn from more than 70 collections worldwide tell the story of Japan’s evolution into a globally-connected world power during the Meiji era
Women Artists between Frankfurt and Paris around 1900
Women artists in Paris and Frankfurt were integral to the development of European modernism, as an exhibition at the Städel Museum demonstrates
Acquisitions of the month: June 2024
A tender portrait by Gauguin of his young son and a bronze lion by Rembrandt Bugatti are among the most significant works to have entered a public collection in the last month
Behind the mask – the meaning of masquerade in West Africa
Kevin Dumouchelle of the National Museum of African Art explains what a fearsome 19th-century ceremonial mask meant to its makers in Côte d’Ivoire
Bührle Collection’s provenance research found inadequate by highly critical report
Plus: Eike Schmidt loses bid to become mayor of Florence; and US Supreme Court reverses a ruling that protected Sackler family from civil lawsuits
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