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A World of Care: Turner and the Environment

Turner’s depictions of the effects of industrialisation are relevant to the climate crisis today, argues a show at the artist’s house in London

The afterlives of the wives of Henry VIII

Being married to the monarch was a hazardous business, but all six queens have lived on in popular memory and the artistic imagination

The British artists who took a restless approach to still life

Still-life painting in Britain really took off in the 20th century when artists adopted a more experimental approach

Four things to see: Data

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of the conceptual artist On Kawara, we look at four artworks that derive their power and meaning from data

Chardin’s strawberries are ripe for reappraisal this summer

The artist’s ability to stop time is on full display in a painting that was recently acquired by the Louvre and is now touring France

The weird reflections of Jean Cocteau

An exhibition in Venice underscores the artist’s restless imagination and shapeshifting tendencies

When fashion resists interpretation

Peter Hujar and Paul Thek offer a lesson in the art of appreciation at Loewe’s menswear show in Paris

Birmingham’s Barber Institute is getting more cutting-edge

Midway through a major refurbishment, the Institute is still managing to thrive at a challenging time for UK museums

Diamonds, dinosaurs and drawings – just some of the fun at London’s summer fairs

There really is something for every kind of collector at Treasure House Fair and London Art Week this summer

Do any political parties have a vision for the arts?

Power is set to change hands next month in Downing Street, but whether that will be enough to fix Britain’s funding of the arts is another matter

The week in art news – Just Stop Oil protestors spray powder on Stonehenge

Plus: Matthew Teitelbaum, director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is stepping down; and the art dealer Barbara Gladstone has died

Donald Sutherland’s brush with Gauguin

Obituaries of the actor are rightly lauding his work in M*A*S*H, Don’t Look Now and JFK, but fail to mark his indelible performance as one of the leading post-Impressionists

Francis Alÿs: Ricochets

The Mexico-based artist’s ongoing series focusing on children’s games from around the globe goes on show at the Barbican

Far and Away: Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection

The Morgan is celebrating its 100th birthday with an exhibition centred around its newly acquired collection of Dutch works on paper

Quilts: Made in Canada

The history of quilt-making is woven through with complex stories, as this exhibition of Canadian fabrics demonstrates

Women Impressionists

Works by four Impressionist women go on display in Dublin to celebrate 150 years since the movement was born

Model behaviour – how life drawing is making a comeback at the Royal Academy

Drawing models in the flesh has been in and out of fashion over the centuries, but the London institution’s postgrad programme is breathing new life into the practice

Four things to see: Music

In honour of the annual Fête de la Musique, which takes place this year on 21 June, we look at four objects that embody the fertile relationship between art, craft and music

Michelangelo’s careful image management

An exhibition at the British Museum shows that the artist deliberately shaped his legacy by the drawings he chose to leave behind

For Carole Gibbons, there’s no place like home

Now 88, the Glaswegian artist is finally being fêted for her unpredictable visions of domesticity

The Flemish tapestry that takes us into the heart of a decisive battle

Nancy E. Edwards of the Kimbell Art Museum explains how a magnificent tapestry by Bernard van Orley re-enacts the Battle of Pavia

Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries

This cycle of seven colossal tapestries, which plunges the viewer into the thick of a 16th-century battle, is on display in its entirety for the first time in the United States

Hannah Höch: Assembled Worlds

Some 80 photomontages by this pioneer of the form are on display in Vienna, alongside a selection of her drawings, paintings and prints

Summer Exhibition 2024

The public and Royal Academicians alike are invited to submit for the annual show, which has lit up the Academy’s London lodgings in a riot of colours and shapes for more than 250 years