Hannah Höch: Assembled Worlds
Some 80 photomontages by this pioneer of the form are on display in Vienna, alongside a selection of her drawings, paintings and prints
Summer Exhibition 2024
The public and Royal Academicians alike are invited to submit for the annual show, which has lit up the Academy’s London lodgings in a riot of colours and shapes for more than 250 years
Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture
The rebels who thumbed their nose at the serious-minded efforts of East Coast artists are celebrated in this colourful show in Seattle
Four things to see: Cars
To mark 180 years since Charles Goodyear got his patent for vulcanised rubber approved, we look at four artworks that capture the appeal of automotives through the years
Greece welcomes Turkish rejection of Lord Elgin’s right to remove Parthenon marbles
Plus: Dealers Robilant+Voena hit by employee lawsuit, and French Fluxus artist Ben Vautier has died at the age of 88
Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.
The firm’s chief silver designer was also an avid collector of decorative arts from all over the world, many of which he donated to the Met
Rembrandt & the World
The artist never left the Netherlands, but these etchings show that the animals, architecture and clothing from faraway places certainly sparked his imagination
William Blake’s Universe
A collaboration between the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Hamburger Kunsthalle puts Blake’s myth-making in the context of his European contemporaries
The Book of Marvels: Wonder and Fear in the Middle Ages
The Getty Center presents an illuminated French manuscript that takes armchair travellers to foreign and often fantastical places
Acquisitions of the month: May 2024
An uncanny family portrait by Lavinia Fontana and Sorolla’s striking copy of a Velásquez are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
Four things to see: Heavy weather
As climate change continues to affect the world and the way we see it, here are four paintings of weather events, which serve as dramatic reminders of the power of nature and of human vulnerability
In the studio with… Wendy Sharpe
The artist has all she needs in her capacious studio in Sydney, where her artist partner, some audiobooks and a Mexican papier-mâché skeleton keep her company
United States returns hundreds of looted antiquities to Italy
Plus: the classical archaeologist and art historian John Boardman has died at the age of 96
The Art of Pattern: Henri Matisse and Japanese Woodcut Artists
The Baltimore Museum of Art is pairing Matisse’s portraits of women with Japanese woodcut prints to reveal a shared interest in complex patterns
Zanele Muholi
Two decades of photographs documenting the lives of the Black and queer communities of South Africa go on show at Tate Modern
Georgia O’Keeffe: ‘My New Yorks’
The artist spent much of her career painting the landscapes and nature of New Mexico, but her urban scenes are just as accomplished
Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks
Grotesque portraits, lavish still lifes and chaotic religious scenes are among the works on show in this survey of Flemish art between 1400 and 1700
Four things to see: The Venetian School
To mark the anniversary of the death of Tintoretto, we look at four magnificent artworks from the influential Venetian School of painting
How the masters of Meissen made perfect miniature worlds
The porcelain marvels produced in the 18th century combine opulence with naturalism to heart-stopping effect
Kehinde Wiley denies allegations of sexual assault
Plus: the Manhattan District Attorney returns 133 antiquities to Pakistan | and Brooke Lampley, global chairman and head of global fine art at Sotheby’s, is moving to Gagosian
Gregory Crewdson: Retrospective
The artist‘s eerie, staged photographs of small-town America are on display in a show that traces the development of his distinctive style
Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women
The Smithsonian celebrates a group of 20th-century women whose innovative work helped bring textile art out of the shadows
On Thin Ice: Dutch Depictions of Extreme Weather
Artists in the Low Countries were particularly interested in documenting the Little Ice Age of the 17th century, as this show at the Getty demonstrates
Vanessa Bell: A Pioneer of Modern Art
Paintings, drawings and lesser-known textiles by the Bloomsbury Group’s leading artist go on display at the Courtauld
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