Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion
The Met is breathing new life into its costume collection through video, light projection, sound installations and artificial intelligence
The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain
Once seen as the lowest genre of art, still lifes can be evocative, original and complex, suggests a new exhibition at Pallant House
In the studio with… Matthew Krishanu
The artist takes inspiration from Billie Holiday, El Greco and a pair of old Indian puppets when painting large-scale canvases in his East London studio
Pompidou Centre’s economic model unsustainable, says French audit authority
The Pompidou Centre’s economic model is unsustainable, according to France’s Court of Accounts. The auditing authority published its report, covering…
Petrit Halilaj: Abetare
The Kosovan, who began drawing pictures while at a refugee camp in Albania in the 1990s, is the latest artist to be given free rein of the Met’s roof garden
Roni Horn: The Detour of Identity
The artist’s first major solo show in the Nordic countries explores her fascination with Hitchcock, Bergman and the landscapes of Iceland
Michelangelo: the last decades
In the last 30 years of his life, the artist produce some of his most astonishing work, as this show at the British Museum attests
Kandinsky. Into the Unknown
Horses, mythology and folk motifs abound in the painter’s early canvases, which show traces of what would become a distinctive abstract style
Licence to Rome – how the Dutch got a taste for the Italian capital
Maarten van Heemskerck’s expert renderings of Rome inspired his countrymen to see the city for themselves
Israeli artist and curators close pavilion at Venice Biennale
Plus: the historic Copenhagen stock exchange building has been devastated by a fire
Beyond the Biennale – the shows to see around Venice this month
The rest of the city still has plenty to offer, from an exploration of the travels of Marco Polo to a celebration of Jean Cocteau’s genius
Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939
The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., shows that the French capital was the place to be for forward-thinking American women
Niki de Saint Phalle: Rebellion and Joy
The first survey of the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle opens at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City
Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider
The spiritual side of space, colour and light preoccupied the modernist artists who gathered in Munich before the First World War
Olympism: Modern Invention, Ancient Legacy
The Louvre looks at the ancient history that inspired a French aristocrat to create a modern form of the Olympic Games
Former Uffizi director Eike Schmidt runs for mayor of Florence
Plus: Christie’s withdraws four Greek vases from auction and strike at National Museums Liverpool is set to continue
Phoenix Kingdoms: The Last Splendor of China’s Bronze Age
More than 150 masterpieces of ancient Chinese craftsmanship go on show at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
Caspar David Friedrich: Infinite Landscapes
The father of German Romantic art gets a major survey to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth
The Last Caravaggio
This shadowy depiction of Saint Ursula, thought to be Caravaggio’s last work, demonstrates that the artist’s mastery never left him
Willem de Kooning and Italy
An exhibition in Venice suggests that the Abstract Expressionist’s visits to Rome changed his art for ever
In the studio with… Ibrahim Mahama
When he’s not using stadiums to realise his visions, the artist welcomes all manner of visitors, from school kids to tuk-tuk drivers, in his studio-cum-gallery in northern Ghana
The week in art news – Marlborough Gallery to close after nearly 80 years
Plus: Endeavor, the owner of Frieze, goes private for $13bn; and Kim Conaty is the Whitney’s new chief curator
The Birth of Department Stores: Fashion, Design, Toys, Advertising, 1852–1925
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs explores Paris’s department store boom and the rise of the bourgeoisie
Jean Cocteau: The Juggler’s Revenge
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is celebrating the artist’s infinite variety through an exhibition of drawings, photographs, films, jewellery and more
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