Antony Gormley: Time Horizon

An army of lifesize figures are scattered across some 300 acres of the landscaped grounds at Houghton Hall in Norfolk

2 Aug 2024

UNESCO puts off placing Stonehenge on at-risk list

Plus: US officials recover $1.2m Picasso drawing and Venice’s tourist tax has raised much more than expected

28 Jul 2024

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

26 Jul 2024

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

26 Jul 2024

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

26 Jul 2024

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

26 Jul 2024

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

24 Jul 2024

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

19 Jul 2024

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

19 Jul 2024

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

19 Jul 2024

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

19 Jul 2024

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

19 Jul 2024

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

15 Jul 2024

Former British Museum director to head new museum in Saudi Arabia

Plus: the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation gets a new president, and a 4,000-year-old temple and theatre complex is unearthed in northern Peru

12 Jul 2024

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

12 Jul 2024

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

12 Jul 2024

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

12 Jul 2024

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

12 Jul 2024

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)

5 Jul 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

5 Jul 2024

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

5 Jul 2024

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

5 Jul 2024

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

5 Jul 2024

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

5 Jul 2024