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First Look: ‘Shatter Rupture Break’ at the Art Institute of Chicago
It wasn’t just the Cubists who responded to the 20th century’s upheavals
First Look: ‘Poetry of the Metropolis’ at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
The Affichistes used throwaway materials but their legacy endures
First Look: ‘The Decorator and the Thief (…)’ at the NGCA
I’ve tried to stay away from what most people would expect from a show about craft
First Look: ‘Self’ at Turner Contemporary
Van Dyck’s celebrated last self-portrait tours to Margate at the centre of a major exhibition
First Look: ‘Unseen’ at the Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery is opening a new space this year dedicated to the display of drawings
Curators pick seven highlights from ‘A Traveler’s Eye’
We asked the curators of the Arthur M. Sackler gallery’s latest show to pick their favourite exhibits
First Look: ‘The Art and Craft of Elena Polenova’ at Watts Gallery
Polenova was leading figure from the Russian Arts and Crafts movement
First Look: ‘Modern Times’ at the Rijksmuseum
The new wing of the new Rijksmuseum is playing host to a display of new photography
First Look: El Greco in New York
New York’s masterpieces are reunited to mark the 400th anniversary of the artist’s death
First Look: The City Lost and Found at the Art Institute of Chicago
How did artists develop new ways of depicting urban life in the 1960s and ’70s?
First Look: ‘Sculptors’ Drawings’ at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
How important was drawing to the Renaissance sculptor?
First Look: Caspar Wolf at the Kunstmuseum Basel
A new exhibition celebrates the work of Caspar Wolf and ‘the wild, uncivilised world of the mountains’
First Look: ‘Canaletto: Bernardo Bellotto Paints Europe’ at the Alte Pinakothek
A new exhibition in Munich explores Bernardo Bellotto’s legacy, and examines his famously detailed work
First Look: ‘Egon Schiele – Jenny Saville’ at the Kunsthaus Zürich
Curator Oliver Wick discusses staging an encounter between Schiele and Saville
First Look: ‘Hokusai (1760–1849)’ at the Grand Palais
Laure Dalon, curator of ‘Hokusai’, talks about the artist’s Manga, his poetic late works, and the curatorial problems posed by fragile pieces
First Look: ‘Rubens and his Legacy’ at BOZAR, Brussels
Without Rubens no rococo, no romanticism, no orientalism. Perhaps even no Impressionism.
First Look: ‘Assyria to Iberia’ at the Metropolitan Museum
The roots of global communication – which has profoundly shaped the modern world – lie deep in our ancient past
First Look: ‘Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s’ at LACMA
The challenges and opportunities of curating a gallery exhibition about film
First Look: Constable at the V&A, London
A new exhibition promises ‘a journey through the training…of the young artist to his most acclaimed exhibition pieces’
First Look: ‘Perugino, Master of Raphael’ at the Musée Jacquemart-André
Perugino takes centre stage in Paris
First Look: ‘Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention’ at the Yale Center for British Art
Martina Droth, curator of ‘Sculpture Victorious’, discusses historical perspective, images of power, and a seven foot tall majolica elephant…
First Look: ‘The EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free’ at Tate Britain
Curator David Blayney Brown discusses setting Turner free from reductive critical stereotypes
First Look: ‘Gustave Courbet’ at the Beyeler Foundation
The curator’s introduction to a new exhibition of Courbet’s work, opening in September at the Beyeler Foundation
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