Former head of Frieze fairs Victoria Siddall appointed director of National Portrait Gallery
Plus: British museum shortlists five architects for major refurbishment, and the art historian David Anfam has died at the age of 69
The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917
Public commissions during the period known as the American Renaissance focused heavily on the human figure
Mark Bradford: Keep Walking
The American artist’s monumental works, often made from found materials, get a suitably spacious setting at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin
Masterpieces from the Borghese Gallery
Italian Old Masters take up temporary residence at the Jacquemart-André in Paris this month
Surrealism
A century after André Breton wrote the first Surrealist Manifesto in Paris, the avant-garde movement is being celebrated in its home city
Creative Scotland closes its key fund for artists amid government budget freeze
Plus: Staff at the Noguchi Museum stage a walk-out over its dress code; and Alain Delon (1935–2024)
Lee Ufan: Quiet Resonance
At the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, the contemplative Korean sculptor gets his first ever solo show in Australia
Firing the Imagination: Japanese Influence on French Ceramics, 1860–1910
French ceramicists embraced japonisme with open arms, as an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art demonstrates
Roots
An exhibition in Basel shows how the Russian-born German artist Walter Spies helped shape the art of Bali after moving to the island in the 1920s
Robert Longo
The American artist grapples with history, politics and the natural world through large-scale hyperrealist drawings in Vienna
Stonehenge megalith transported from Scotland, not Wales, study finds
Plus: the British Museum admits that it broke the law; and Kasper König (1943–2024)
In Dialogue with Benin: Art, Colonialism and Restitution
At the Museum Rietberg, an exhibition of objects looted by the British after they invaded Benin City in 1897 asks difficult questions about restitution – but also celebrates the historic kingdom’s rich artistic heritage
Still Performing: Costume, Gesture, and Expression in 19th Century European Photography
An exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum shows how early photographers staged scenes with drama, humour and an eye for composition
Caspar David Friedrich: Where it all started
The German Romantic artist created much of his most impressive work in Dresden, where the 250th anniversary of his birth is being celebrated through an exhibition of his paintings and drawings
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess: The Finest Disregard
Paintings, drawings, print and ceramics by the Venezuelan-born artist best known for her cartoon-inspired clay sculptures go on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund takes stake in Sotheby’s
Plus: Harvard refuses to remove Sackler name from university art museum, and Slovak culture minister fires director of the national gallery
100 Years of Eduardo Chillida with the Telefónica Collection
The Basque sculptor’s country home near San Sebastián is marking the centenary of his birth in style
Bonnard-Matisse, a friendship
Both artists were close to the French dealers and publishers who created a home for their personal art collection at the Fondation Maeght in the south of France
Germaine Richier: La Méditerranéenne
Expressive modernist figures by the French sculptor populate the site of an abandoned lead mine in Marseille
George Condo: The Mad and the Lonely
Grotesque portraits and sculptures by the American artist take up residence on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra
Russian dissident artist Aleksandra Skochilenko released in prisoner swap
UK government scraps Stonehenge tunnel, and American Museum of Natural History repatriates the remains of 124 individuals
Suchitra Mattai: We are nomads, we are dreamers
Eschewing the metal or stone normally used for outdoor art, the artist presents woven works for Socrates Sculpture Park in New York
Arlene Shechet: Girl Group
At Storm King Art Center, ceramics the artist made during Covid-19 lockdowns form the basis of a new series of bright, bold metal sculptures
Bharti Kher: Alchemies
Figures of deities fused from several traditions and the artist’s personal cosmology are reimagined at a monumental scale at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
What happens when an artist wants to be anonymous?