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Amy Sherald: American Sublime
The portraitist gets her first solo show in New York, featuring striking paintings of cowboys, farmers, beauty queens and Michelle Obama
Thomas Schütte: Genealogies
Some 50 sculptures of heads, busts and bodies by the German artist are on display alongside 100 works on paper, revealing fresh insights into his process
Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s
A chance to see how the Second World War transformed American attitudes towards art, design and fashion
The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making
The National Gallery continues its bicentenary celebrations with two vast, dramatic charcoal-on-paper drawings that are rarely on display
‘The vitality and sheer weirdness is thrilling’ – at the Museum of Cycladic Art
An exhibition of ancient art spanning centuries and islands isn’t afraid to let the objects speak for themselves
The jazzy life of Gertrude Abercrombie
Once a central figure in Chicago’s mid-century art and jazz scene, this Surrealist painter was long forgotten – until now
Cultural leaders must resist being brought into line
It’s not just federally funded museums that have reason to be wary. Self-censorship is also a danger, and all institutions should stand up for their stated principles
‘It’s not Grandma. But it also is’ – Will Wiles on a family portrait of sorts
The subject of a painting by Marie Laurencin was actually a French film star, but it will always have a strong family connection
What the dismantling of USAID means for world heritage
As development agencies have become increasingly entangled with heritage projects, the end of USAID raises the question of who will fill the funding gap
French winemaking with a South African twist
The Krone winery makes bubbly using French methods, but its steadfast support of artists and chefs is what really makes it sparkle
‘Archives are the closest thing we have to a time machine’
Archives are much more than stuffy storerooms filled with dried-out documents, and might be our best way of connecting to the past
Sebastiano del Piombo’s sound beginning
A new study of the 16th-century painter highlights his musical training and makes some bold claims about attribution
Post-war French ceramics are winning over 21st-century collectors
The expressive sculptural wares made by French artists are experiencing a strong revival of interest
Trump issues executive order to remove ‘improper ideology’ from Smithsonian
Plus: Looting at Sudan’s National Museum | South Korean heritage sites threatened by country’s worst wildfires | Christophe Cherix appointed next director of MoMA | and more
Swimming and style – a brief history
The Design Museum’s deep dive into swimming shows that people have always felt the urge to get into the water, for survival, sport or fun
Keita Morimoto turns Tokyo into a nocturnal no-man’s-land
In the painter’s night-time scenes, occasional isolated figures play second fiddle to the anonymous urban settings they inhabit
The singular vision of Svetlana Alpers
As a selection of her essays makes clear, the eminent art historian has always been committed to looking as a means of understanding
Paddington bears the weight of British identity
The national psychodrama sparked by the destruction of a Paddington Bear statue raises a question: when did we start taking fictional characters so seriously?
Picasso, Miró, Léger and the Many Voices of Modernism
An exhibition in Denmark presents lesser-known modernists alongside the usual 20th-century titans
Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots
The largest survey of the Arte Povera artist in the UK encourages us to think differently about the boundary between art and nature
Discovering Dürer
Though most celebrated for his woodcut prints, Albrecht Dürer was also a master engraver, as this free exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum makes clear
Ruth Asawa: Retrospective
A major survey of Asawa’s work in San Francisco covers six-decades and reminds us that there was more to her work than wire sculptures
To infinity and beyond with Caspar David Friedrich
The high priest of German Romanticism is at his best when practising a minimalism that requires maximum imaginative effort from the viewer
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