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Black Venus: Reclaiming Black Women in Visual Culture
A group show at Somerset House reveals how contemporary artists are challenging stereotypical depictions of Black femininity
Lee Krasner: Portrait in Green
A close look at one of the artist’s most famous paintings provides an intimate insight into her practice
Eugène Atget: Highlights from the Mary & Dan Solomon Collection
The French photographer created a haunting record of vanishing city
Collective effort – the social sculptures of Simone Leigh
The sculptor is deeply connected to a wider network of artists and thinkers who also get their dues in this large-scale survey
Acquisitions of the Month: July 2023
The only surviving portrait from Henry Raeburn’s trip to Italy and an 18th-century book about cricket are among the most remarkable works to enter public collections
Old Masters are back in the running at the Walker Art Gallery
After a multimillion-pound refurbishment, Liverpool’s greatest gallery is rethinking what a Victorian collection of Renaissance art means today
How X. Marcel Boulestin catered to the masses
The restaurateur and writer won over both the smart set and the middle classes – and was a hero to Elizabeth David
Tiffany Chung: Rise into the Atmosphere
The experience of migration is at the heart of the Vietnamese-American artist’s installation commissioned by the Dallas Museum of Art
Boundary Encounters
Modern Art Oxford’s summer programme brings together performance, dance, installation art and music from artists from around the world
The Horse and Rider from Albania
The Getty Villa in Los Angeles gives visitors an inside view of the restoration of an ancient bronze statue
Isa Genzken: 75/75
The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin marks the sculptor’s birthday with a number of works that match her years
The outsize influence of the little black dress
The frock you can wear to everything has never gone out of style – but that hasn’t stopped designers trying to pull it off its pedestal
At the National Gallery, Paula Rego holds her own against a Renaissance master
Spot Judith, Delilah, the Virgin Mary – and museum staff – in a monumental mural inspired by a 15th-century altarpiece
In the studio with… Klara Kristalova
The Czech ceramicist works in the heart of a wood in Sweden where animals and insects are her main visitors
The fake’s progress – an introduction to the art of forgery at the Courtauld
A display of counterfeit works offers an object lesson in what a masterpiece really is – but it could have had more fun with the subject
X marks the spot? Probably not in the case of Elon Musk
The social media site has had what Musk dubiously dubs an ‘art deco’ rebrand
For Gabriel Chaile, the way to the art is through the stomach
The Argentinian artist sculpts anthropomorphic adobe ovens, which he uses to cook for local communities
The week in art news – arrests made in connection with Celtic coin heist
Plus: two looted sculptures returned to Libya, the Dutch national photography museum to receive a new home, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions
The Art Institute of Chicago takes viewers on a journey into a world of Surreal imagination
Grayson Perry: Smash Hits
The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh stages the largest solo exhibition of the artist’s work to date
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea
Modern and contemporary artists challenge romanticised visions of the American West
Thomas J. Price at the V&A
The British artist’s larger-than-life figures stand face to face with historical monuments
Ringing the changes – what’s so special about a telephone box?
Historic England has followed Beyonce’s wise words and put a ring on it, as the iconic K8 phone box has been Grade II-listed
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When Giacometti lit up literary London
The sculptor’s chandelier, now export-stopped by the UK government, once hung in the offices of Cyril Connolly’s Horizon magazine