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Still from the digital video installation One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (2019), by Isuma, the central work in the Canadian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.

Venice in furs – an Inuit collective at the Biennale

The Isuma collective’s new film draws on the history of coerced relocation of Inuit communities in Canada

8 May 2019
Left: Painted bowl with geometric design and possible flower images, Classic Mimbres period (1000–1130), New Mexico. Right: Painted bowl with composite animal figure, Classic Mimbres period (1000–1130).

Bowled over – the painted pots of the ancient Mimbres people

Around a thousand years ago in the American Southwest, a highly sophisticated ceramic tradition emerged

7 May 2019
Installation view of Synchronicity (2018) at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tsuyoshi Hisakado.

What not to miss at the 58th Venice Biennale

From Ralph Rugoff’s main exhibition to the 35 national pavilions, there’s lots to see – so here are the expected highlights

6 May 2019
Spring Evening, Akerhus Fortress (1913), Harald Sohlberg.

The landscape painters who invented Norway

Harald Sohlberg and Edvard Munch inherited a lively tradition that helped define the new nation

4 May 2019
Jayne Wrightsman, photographed by Cecil Beaton for Vogue in 1963.

‘Wrightsman quality’ – a tribute to Jayne Wrightsman

The collector’s gifts of important Old Masters and outstanding French furniture transformed the Met

2 May 2019
‘Papillon’ ring designed by G (Glenn Spiro).

Magpies, rejoice – the V&A has revamped its jewellery gallery

There’s something for everyone among the 3,500 pieces on display, spanning three millennia of European design

29 Apr 2019
100 Hand-drawn maps of my country, India (2014), Shilpa Gupta. Galleria Continua.

A new home for South Asian art in Dubai

The Ishara Art Foundation opened its doors last month with a show exploring boundaries and belonging

24 Apr 2019
Detail of photograph of Lee Krasner in Springs, New York, 1972, by Irving Penn.

Getting to know Lee Krasner

It’s time to set the record straight on the life and legacy of the great Abstract Expressionist

23 Apr 2019
Portraits by Velázquez flanking Las Meninas (1656) in Room 12 of the museum, rehung in 2010

The Prado pulls out the stops for its 200th birthday

With its exceptional collection of Old Masters and rich history, the museum has plenty to celebrate

22 Apr 2019
Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) at home in Dublin

In search of Seamus Heaney

A literary centre in the village of Bellaghy, County Derry returns visitors to the roots of Heaney’s poetry

19 Apr 2019
Okwui Enwezor in Venice in 2015.

‘The world was better because Okwui was around, fighting for what he believed’

Okwui Enwezor was not just an influential curator, but one of the most important public intellectuals of our time

16 Apr 2019
The Vampire of Notre-Dame, plate nine from Le Long de la Seine et des Boulevards (1890/1910), Louis Auguste Lepère, published by A. Desmoulins.

An elegy for Notre-Dame, in words and pictures

The great Gothic cathedral has inspired innumerable artists and writers over the centuries

16 Apr 2019

Little Britain – the Elizabethan passion for portrait miniatures

Flaunted in public and pored over in private, the portraits of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver encapsulate their age

13 Apr 2019
Archaeological excavations from an underwater ceremonial location near the Island of the Sun in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia.

Discovering an underwater trove of gifts to the gods

An ancient ceremonial site at Lake Titicaca offers a glimpse into the lives and faith of a pre-Inca people

11 Apr 2019
The Moon (A Lua) (1928; detail), Tarsila do Amaral.

Acquisitions of the Month: March 2019

Grayson Perry’s Brexit vases and Tarsila do Amaral’s moon painting have entered public collections recently

8 Apr 2019
View of The Shed, from Hudson Yards.

A barnstorming debut for the Shed

The new arrival at Hudson Yards unites the performing and visual arts under one $500m roof

5 Apr 2019
After the Bath (2006)

‘Wry humour and a clarity that belied her years’ – remembering Rose Hilton

The late British painter was influenced by Bonnard and Matisse – and had to hide her work from her artist husband, Roger

2 Apr 2019
Stagecoach with horses (c. 1959-60), Antonio Ligabue.

The idiosyncratic painter hailed as the Swiss Van Gogh

Memories of his life in Switzerland pervade the paintings of Antonio Ligabue, who was expelled from the country in 1919

1 Apr 2019
The Pyramidal Neuron of the Cerebral Cortex (1904), Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Cajal Institute (CSIC), Madrid.

Can neuroscience really tell us much about why we look at art?

The mystery of aesthetic experience is perhaps even greater than that of the human brain

1 Apr 2019
Seed Pushing (1961), Krishna Reddy.

A tour of Kolkata’s thriving art scene

An exhibition devoted to Krishna Reddy and awards for emerging Indian artists are among recent highlights in the city

26 Mar 2019
Running Along the Beach, Valencia (1908), Joaquín Sorolla. Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, Oviedo.

Sun, sea and sand – Sorolla’s dazzling visions of Spain

The Valencian painter is little known in the UK, but a survey at the National Gallery is set to change this

23 Mar 2019
Edmund Capon, pictured with a calligraphy painting from his own collection in 1999.

‘Sydney was perfect for Edmund, and Edmund perfect for Sydney’ – a tribute to Edmund Capon

Remembering the pioneering director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, who led the museum from 1978 to 2011

21 Mar 2019

Against boredom: a tribute to John Richardson

John Richardson was lavish, louche and learned – and one of the great characters of New York

21 Mar 2019
Kilham to Langtoft II, 27 July 2005 (2005), David Hockney.

Beyond TEFAF – more to see in and around Maastricht

There’s plenty to see throughout the Low Countries this month – from Van Gogh and Hockney to the Dutch Caravaggisti

13 Mar 2019