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Anni Albers photographed at her weaving studio at Black Mountain College in 1937 by Helen M. Post, Photo: courtesy the Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina

Anni Albers weaves her magic at Tate Modern

A major exhibition devoted to the artist restores her – and the craft of weaving – to the heart of the modern movement

20 Oct 2018
The Veneration of St. Michael, Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti

Romanticismo

A look at the distinctive contribution made by 19th-century Italian artists to the Romantic movement

Gallerie d’Italia and Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan
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Laus Veneris, Edward Burne-Jones.

Edward Burne-Jones

How the Pre-Raphaelite artist looked to the medieval past to invent a new future for painting

Tate Britain, London
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Photo: Emiliano Barbieri/Emanuele Paganelli

‘Colour became the subject’ – Phoebe Unwin on her new series of paintings

The artist brightens up the Collezione Maramotti with paintings that blur the line between abstraction and figuration

19 Oct 2018
Aerial view of the Pavilions and Michael Heizer’s Compression Line (1968/2016).

A game-changing expansion for the Glenstone Museum

The reopened museum in Maryland raises the bar for what we can expect from private collections

16 Oct 2018
The City (still; 2018), Rossella Biscotti.

Digging down into Turkey’s Neolithic city

Communities past and present are explored in Rossella Biscotti’s film of the excavations at Çatalhöyük

13 Oct 2018

Cubism

From Cézanne to Duchamp – how the avant-garde movement transformed modern art

Centre Pompidou, Paris
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Oil Bunkering #1, Niger Delta, Nigeria 2016 (2016), Edward Burtynsky.

‘It’s hard at this particular moment to be optimistic’ – Edward Burtynsky on the future of the planet

The Canadian photographer talks about ‘The Anthropocene Project’ and trying to capture the spirit of a new geological epoch

12 Oct 2018
The Mango Trees, Martinique (detail; 1887), Paul Gauguin.

How four months in Martinique helped Gauguin make his name

The artist saw himself as an exotic outsider, and his voyage to the Caribbean in 1887 as a transformative experience

10 Oct 2018
Robert Venturi in Las Vegas in 1968.

Remembering Robert Venturi – reluctant pioneer of postmodernism

The American architect, whose career spanned seven decades, has died at the age of 93

9 Oct 2018
Young Girl with a Vase (detail; 1889), Berthe Morisot. Private collection.

Berthe Morisot comes into her own

A landmark exhibition puts the painter back where she belongs – at the heart of the Impressionist movement

6 Oct 2018

Anni Albers

How the Bauhaus-trained artist turned the ancient craft of hand-weaving into a modernist art form

Tate Modern, London
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Theodoor van Loon

Exploring the influence of, and influences on, this overlooked Flemish baroque painter

BOZAR, Brussels
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Matilda Wormwood as an astrophysicist, as imagined by Quentin Blake

Matilda at 30 – still top of the class and now standing up to Donald Trump

Three decades after the publication of Matilda, Roald Dahl’s heroine has been celebrated in new drawings – and with an unexpected sculpture

2 Oct 2018

Lots of bother… as Bez rigs Bargain Hunt

Plus: Rachel Whiteread’s near-miss with the Gruffalo and Mark E. Smith is immortalised on a chip shop

1 Oct 2018
Le Générale Canson, Préfète Duffaut

Frieze Week highlights: protest, painting and dwarf planets

What not to miss in London – including an overview of Haiti’s modern art movement and new works by Kemang Wa Lehulere

1 Oct 2018
Untitled (mid 1960s), Hannah Wilke.

Frieze week highlights: latex, terracotta and a Camden catwalk

An evening of performances and three shows of 20th-century women artists are among the events not to miss

1 Oct 2018
Bible Keghi (1586), copied and illuminated by Hakob of Julfa (Hakob Jughayets‘i). Private collection.

What the art of Armenia can tell us about a place and its people

The Met’s exhibition helps us understand a region that has always been hard to define, but there are many other stories to be told

29 Sep 2018
River Form (BH 568), Barbara Hepworth

Women artists take the limelight at Frieze Masters 2018

Highlights from the seventh edition of Frieze Masters

28 Sep 2018
Jeremy Wright MP.

UK culture secretary abandons his projection

Plus: a cannabis museum opens in Las Vegas, and Martin Parr on how Robert Mugabe informs his dress sense

27 Sep 2018
The drawing found in Blombos Cave, South Africa.

The oldest drawing in the world has been discovered – but is it art?

A 73,000-year-old fragment of stone marked with red lines raises questions about the nature of aesthetic experience

25 Sep 2018
Illustration by Graham Roumieu/Dutch Uncle

Will Macron’s culture pass have much impact?

In a new pilot scheme, every 18 year old in France will get €500 to spend on culture next year

24 Sep 2018
Portrait of Horace Walpole, Joshue Reynolds

The treasures of Horace Walpole come home to Strawberry Hill

Much of Walpole’s extensive collection is about to return to its original neo-gothic surroundings

24 Sep 2018

The collector who says he’s sending artists to the moon

Yusaku Maezawa has booked up Elon Musk’s first space flight for an art adventure

21 Sep 2018