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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
Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture
The rebels who thumbed their nose at the serious-minded efforts of East Coast artists are celebrated in this colourful show in Seattle
‘Crazed egomaniacs who want to subjugate us’ – a brief history of architects in film
Hollywood films are full of characters who design buildings for a living, but how well do they reflect the realities of the profession?
The dazzling paintings of Matthew Wong
The self-taught artist died tragically young at the age of 35, but there’s no denying the talent he demonstrated in his all-too-brief career
Four things to see: Cars
To mark 180 years since Charles Goodyear got his patent for vulcanised rubber approved, we look at four artworks that capture the appeal of automotives through the years
Who should we believe about the British Empire?
Drawings and watercolours of India belonging to a Scottish railway engineer take on new meaning if we look for what they don’t show
The optical allusions of Constantin Brancusi
Identifying the inspirations for the Romanian sculptor’s enigmatic works remains quite the puzzle
The everyday radicalism of Joanne Leonard
A photo taken by the artist in 1979 arranges the documents of a family’s life in humorous – and radical – style
The awesome art of Caspar David Friedrich
The leading exponent of German Romanticism was keenly concerned with the destructive effects of humans on a rapidly industrialising world
Greece welcomes Turkish rejection of Lord Elgin’s right to remove Parthenon marbles
Plus: Dealers Robilant+Voena hit by employee lawsuit, and French Fluxus artist Ben Vautier has died at the age of 88
Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.
The firm’s chief silver designer was also an avid collector of decorative arts from all over the world, many of which he donated to the Met
Rembrandt & the World
The artist never left the Netherlands, but these etchings show that the animals, architecture and clothing from faraway places certainly sparked his imagination
William Blake’s Universe
A collaboration between the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Hamburger Kunsthalle puts Blake’s myth-making in the context of his European contemporaries
The Book of Marvels: Wonder and Fear in the Middle Ages
The Getty Center presents an illuminated French manuscript that takes armchair travellers to foreign and often fantastical places
Dior cruises through Scotland’s chequered history
The fashion megabrand has used Drummond Castle in Scotland as the backdrop for a new campaign – but was it fully clued up about the site’s colourful history?
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