Rudolf Wacker: Magic and Abysses of Reality
The horrors of the First World War and its troubled aftermath loom large in the Austrian artist’s inventive, disconcerting paintings
Ana Lupas: Intimate Space – Open Gaze
The most extensive survey to date of the artist’s career touches on Romanian craft traditions as well as the country’s turbulent history
Four things to see: Peace
To coincide with United Nations Day, we look at four artworks and objects designed to promote harmony or tranquillity
At Maison Ruinart, contemporary art holds court
The first champagne house ever to be established, Maison Ruinart has a new, art-filled home – one that maintains a harmonious relationship between heritage and modernity
Acquisitions of the month: September 2024
A 17th-century portrait of a bookseller from Lombardy and a breviary from the library of Charles V are among this month’s highlights
Talking heads – a conversation with Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark
The British artist talks to Arjun Sajip, digital editor of Apollo, about how the heads she sculpts using cutting-edge tech speak volumes about history and identity
Christine Macel steps down as director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Plus: National Gallery in London bans liquids, Lisa Schiff pleads guilty to defrauding clients, and Darren Walker is the next president of the NGA in Washington, D.C.
Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa
Nightmarish visions are the order of the day at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge – though there are glimmers of hope, too
Pets and the City
The bond between New Yorkers and their pets offers paws for thought at this amiable but ambitious show at the New-York Historical Society
Fait à Paris: Furniture Creations by Jean-Pierre Latz at the Dresden Court
Magnificent clocks and cabinets sit resplendent at this exhibition of the Parisian craftsman’s work in the Royal Palace of Dresden
Amoako Boafo: Proper Love
This ambitious show at the Belvedere offers a chance to get to grips with the Ghanaian artist’s distinctive finger-painting style
Four things to see: Dress to express
People have always used clothing to express their individuality and sometimes to rebel against societal norms – as these four artworks and photographs show
Directors of major UK museums call for attacks on artworks to stop
Plus: Lebanon’s culture minister calls for the country’s heritage sites to be protected from Israeli bombing; and a shield looted by the British in 1868 will be returned to Ethiopia
Tamara de Lempicka
The artist’s portraits of socialites in Paris in the 1920s and ’30s are the main draw at the de Young Museum – but she took on other subjects, too
Rubens’s Workshop
Rubens was the most successful artist of his day, but he wasn’t doing it all on his own, as this exhibition at the Prado makes abundantly clear
Hew Locke: what have we here?
The artist turns curator in an exhibition that makes connections between Britain’s imperial past and the contents of the British Museum
Discover Constable & the Hay Wain
The most famous landscape in British art is the centre of attention in a display to mark the National Gallery’s bicentenary
Four things to see: Imagination
These four artworks show how the imagination – the incubator of all human creativity – can be drawn on to conjure entirely new worlds
Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Arte Povera masterpiece is a case of rags and endless riches
Curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev explains how the artist’s Venus of the Rags embodies the innovative spirit of the Italian movement
Tacita Dean: Blind Folly
In Houston, the artist lets chance guide her hand in a series of drawings on paper and found materials, accompanied by several earlier works and a set of 16mm films
Rembrandt – Hoogstraten: Colour and Illusion
Works by Rembrandt and his student Samuel van Hoogstraten are hung alongside each other in Vienna to demonstrate their similarities and differences
Marina Apollonio: Beyond the Circle
The Italian artist’s bold experiments with geometric shapes are the subject of a comprehensive survey at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice
At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s striking scene is the centrepiece of this show at the Minneapolis Institute of Art about Paris nightlife in the 19th century
Plans revived for Centre Pompidou satellite in New Jersey
Plus: climate activists acquitted in Manchester, Hammer Museum appoints Zoë Ryan as its new director, and researchers find 7th-century throne room in Peru
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