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Stone Alignments/Solstice Cairns (1979), Michelle Stuart.

Stones, scrolls and the mysteries of the universe – an interview with Michelle Stuart

The American artist looks back on half of a century of working in and with the landscape

10 Jul 2018
January, Yellow and Black (1957), Paul Feiler.

The modern mysticism of Paul Feiler

An exhibition in Hastings makes clear the abrupt shift in the St Ives artist’s style of painting

7 Jul 2018
A selection of glazed ceramic buttons (1944–45), Lucie Rie.

The great modern potter who made an art form of buttons

A comprehensive look at the career of Lucie Rie places the spotlight on her handcrafted buttons

6 Jul 2018
Part of a brass choir screen at De Nieuwe Kerke, Amsterdam, cast by unknown brass-founders in c. 1654, after a design by Johannes Lutma, probably in collaboration with Jacob van Campen

The fantastical designs of the Dutch Golden Age

An exhibition at the Rijksmuseum explores the inventive language of the 17th-century auricular style

5 Jul 2018

Acquisitions of the month: June 2018

A major giveaway from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and a Queen Victoria bust are among this month’s top acquisitions

5 Jul 2018
Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon, 1965, (1965) Graham Keen, © Graham Keen

Bacon and Giacometti remain as elusive as ever at the Fondation Beyeler

The Fondation Beyeler ingeniously pairs Bacon and Giacometti in a way that highlights the individuality of both artists

4 Jul 2018

It’s vital that objects from national collections are shown more widely

Museums across the UK are able to borrow from the national collections, but they need external support to do so

4 Jul 2018
Cérémonie d'inauguration du Canal de Suez à Port-Saïd. (17 November 1869), Edouard Riou.

A brief history of the Suez Canal

An ambitious exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe looks at the role of the famous waterway in Egypt and beyond

3 Jul 2018
Portrait of Two Girls as the Saints Agnes and Dorothy, (n.d.) Michaelina Wautier. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp.

‘Doing justice to an artist no one knows is quite an undertaking’

The first exhibition devoted to the Flemish painter Michaelina Wautier has been a 25-year-long labour of love for its curator

The Procuress, (1625), Gerrit van Honthorst, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

The local museum with a world-class collection of Old Masters

The Centraal Museum is raising its profile with a show devoted to the Utrecht Caravaggisti – but it remains firmly grounded in the city

30 Jun 2018
A Sheet of Figure Studies, Peter Oliver

What not to miss at London Art Week

A painting Canova tried to pass off as a Giorgione and a full-length portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi stand out this year

28 Jun 2018
Birthday, Marc Chagall

Memory and modernity in Chagall’s early paintings

Marc Chagall realised new worlds in his art – but he peopled them with characters from his own provincial childhood

26 Jun 2018
Sunflowers, (1889) Vincent Van Gogh, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Van Gogh Foundation)

How the scientific study of paintings has become accessible to everyone

A revolution in chemical-imaging techniques is bringing us closer to the original visions of artists such as Van Gogh

25 Jun 2018
Lake Geneva with symmetrical reflections, Ferdinand Hodler

Ferdinand Hodler’s symbolic hold on the Swiss imagination

Geneva’s museums are using the centenary of the artist’s death as an opportunity to rethink how they display their collections

23 Jun 2018
The Triumph of Aemilius Paulus, Leonardo da Vinci and collaborator

Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio’s Studio

New attributions to Leonardo shed light on his apprentice years under Andrea del Verrocchio

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
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Approaching the divine at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco

An exhibition at the Asian Art Museum asks visitors to consider what it means to represent divinity in human form

21 Jun 2018
Glasgow School Of Art's Mackintosh building on fire for the second time.

‘The building as it was is gone for good’ – remembering the Glasgow School of Art

The devastating fire at the Glasgow School of Art means that incredibly difficult decisions lie ahead

18 Jun 2018

Funny business in the world of stamps

American philatelists with a nose for novelty can now get their hands on scratch n’sniff stamps. And is Royal Mail having a laugh with its Dad’s Army set?

14 Jun 2018

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Barrels and The Mastaba 1958–2018

A retrospective look at the career of the artist couple coincides with a new public installation on the Serpentine lake

Serpentine Galleries, London
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Jacques Dupin, Alberto Giacometti

The Giacometti Institute

The world’s first museum dedicated to the Swiss artist opens, with a permanent reconstruction of his studio on display

Giacometti Institute, Paris
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Irving and Lucy Sandler. Image courtesy Lauren Grosskopf

Remembering Irving Sandler, the ‘sweeper-up after artists’

The critic, who has died at the age of 92, will be remembered as someone who wanted to be in the thick of it

14 Jun 2018
Installation view of ‘Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us (1974)’ at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2018

The man who turned curating into an art form

Why the experimental exhibitions of Harald Szeemann still have something to teach today’s curators

13 Jun 2018
Sweating Blood (1973), Ana Mendieta.

The disappearing acts of Ana Mendieta

A focused exhibition of the Cuban-American artist’s films explores humanity’s complex relationship with the natural world

13 Jun 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

What doesn’t Arron Banks know about the Hermitage? Why is Christie’s like a tennis court? And did anyone point out how that G7 photo looks like a Renaissance painting?

12 Jun 2018