Apollo

Germany to return Benin Bronzes from 2022

Plus: Samsung heirs to donate 23,000 artworks to South Korean museums to settle tax bill, and more stories

The Apollo 40 Under 40 Africa in focus: Adenrele Sonariwo

Adenrele Sonariwo

The founding director of Rele Art Gallery in Lagos on opening a space in Los Angeles and curating the first-ever Nigerian Pavilion in Venice

Olafur Eliasson: Life

Installation view of ‘Olafur Eliasson: Life’ at the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, 2021.

The superstar artist has flooded the Fondation Beyeler with fluorescent pond water – a statement on climate change, apparently

8bit

Still from Fatal System Error (2021), Dumbworld.

The Royal Opera House hosts an online festival of new works that experiment with digital technology

Mother!

(detail; 1454), Dieric Bouts.

This wide-ranging survey explores images of motherhood across time – at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

The Roaring Twenties

The Guggenheim Bilbao explores how avant-garde across Europe flourished during ‘les années folles’

The lost paintings of Marietta Robusti are a maddening Renaissance mystery

Detail of Self-Portrait with Madrigal (c. 1578), attributed to Marietta Robusti. Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Tintoretto’s daughter was a highly acclaimed artist in her own right, but there is frustratingly little to go on when it comes to identifying her paintings

Bittersweet moment: confecting Guernica out of chocolate

Cubes of cubism: chocolatiers at work on their rendering of Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece in April 2021.

A team of Basque chocolatiers has made a life-size replica of Picasso’s monochrome masterpiece

The Frick Collection makes a move into modernism

Four panels of Fragonard’s series The Progress of Love on the fourth floor of the Frick Madison.

The Breuer Building makes a minimalist foil for the Frick’s permanent collection – but Eve M. Kahn is rather glad the move is only temporary

The dashing Edwardian poster designer who really cut the mustard

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Detail from one of John Hassall’s advertisements for Colman’s of Norwich from 1898–89.

In his heyday John Hassall was known as ‘the Poster King’ and his eyecatching ads could be seen on hoardings all over Britain

In the studio with… Hurvin Anderson

Hurvin Anderson in his studio.

The painter is currently commuting to a studio in his garden and has an encyclopaedia of palm trees close at hand

Antony Gormley has always believed that sculpture can change the world – and that faith is firmer than ever

Antony Gormley photographed by Stephen White in his studio in London in March 2021.

An interview with Antony Gormley – public servant, Romantic artist and utopian thinker

The week in art news – Florida makes toppling statues a felony

The statue of a Confederate soldier was removed from what was then Hemming Park, now James Weldon Johnson Park in Jacksonville, Florida, in June 2020.

Plus: museums across Germany to close again this weekend, and more stories

Kusama: Cosmic Nature

Dancing Pumpkin (2020), Yayoi Kusama.

New York Botanical Gardens is the perfect setting for an exhibition exploring the artist’s lifelong fascination with nature

Hepworth Wakefield Spring Flower Festival

Gardener Katy Merrington at the Hepworth Wakefield.

The museum in West Yorkshire is hosting a series of online talks about horticulture while its gardens burst into life

Gardens at Waddesdon Manor

Four statues at Waddesdon.

The Rothschilds’ elaborate formal gardens are in full bloom this spring – and dotted with sculptures, too

Bring Into Being

Chiswick House, from the gardens

A contemporary art show takes over the neo-Palladian villa and grounds of Chiswick House and Gardens

Book keeping: the bookplates that are artworks in their own right

A selection of the bookplates in Simon Martin’s collection, showing the following plates (clockwise from top left): William Nicholson’s for William Heinemann; Stephen Gooden’s for John Raymond Danson; John Craxton’s for Stephen and Natasha Spender; Keith Vaughan’s for Mervyn Jones Evans, John Nash’s for Lionel Bradley, Eric Gill’s for Mary Gill, E. McKnight Kauffer’s for Jeanette Rutherston, Keith Vaughan’s for John Lehmann, Gladys Calthrop’s for Nöel Coward, and E. McKnight Kauffer’s for Ifan Kyrle Fletcher.

With their miniature artistry and enigmatic personal histories, these striking prints are often more enticing than the volumes they’re found in

Are digital artists waiting for the NFT bubble to burst?

Flower Thief (NFT promo) (2021), Jan Erichsen © the artist

Most of the fuss about NFTs has focused on what, if anything, buyers are getting – but how do digital artists feel about minting their art?

‘You don’t have to man-manage artists’ – Maro Itoje talks African art

The England rugby star is presenting an art exhibition in London exploring Africa’s contribution to world culture

In post-war Europe, museums dared to experiment with how they displayed art

Installation view of ‘Painting & Sculpture of a Decade 54–64’, designed by Alison and Peter Smithson at the Tate Gallery, London, 1964.

Post-war museum design had a political impetus that was public-spirited in nature – even if that meant displaying sculptures on a bed of coal

This week only, you can do your weekly shop at the Design Museum

Design for living: ‘Supermarket’ at the Design Museum

For five days the South Kensington museum has reopened as a supermarket, stocked with artist-designed essentials

The temptations of Tiffany glass

Detail of Dragonfly table lamp (c. 1906), Tiffany Studios. Lillian Nassau (price on application)

With its gorgeous, shimmering colours, Tiffany glassware has a well-established market in the US – but be sure you’re buying the real deal

In the studio with… Idris Khan

Idris Khan photographed at Victoria Miro, London, in 2021.

While preparing for his latest show at Victoria Miro, the artist listened to Max Richter’s remix of the Four Seasons on repeat