Four things to see: Women poets
To mark 50 years since the death of the poet Anne Sexton, we look at four artworks that demonstrate how women poets have long been a source of inspiration for artists
In the studio with… Pauline Curnier Jardin
When working in her suntrap of a studio in Rome, the artist enjoys people-watching, listening to jazz and admiring an antique manhole cover made of travertine
Climate activists throw soup at Van Gogh paintings after jailing of fellow protestors
Plus: Unesco describes ‘unprecedented’ threat to Sudan’s cultural heritage, and Volodymyr Zelensky calls for ‘the decolonisation of Ukrainian art’
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
What was on the mind of Indian artists between the Emergency declared by Indira Gandhi in 1975 and the secret nuclear tests of 1998? The Barbican presents some clues
Rising Signs: The Medieval Science of Astrology
The Getty shows that European rulers wanting to start a war or send an embassy had the movements of the sun, moon and the stars to reckon with as well
Thomas Schütte
MoMA’s retrospective of the German artist best known for his grotesque sculptures takes us into more unfamiliar territory
Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit
Tate Modern celebrates the full scope of the career of an artist who took a childlike view of creativity
Four things to see: Tourism
On World Tourism Day, it seems a perfect time to revisit the ways in which artists have depicted global travel over the last two centuries
Frick Collection’s next director is Royal Academy’s Axel Rüger
Plus: the Netherlands returns 288 objects seized from Indonesia during colonial rule; and LACMA postpones opening new building to visitors to 2026
Edges of Ailey
The dance pioneer’s life, work and influences are a revelation at the Whitney Museum of American art this autumn
Asian Bronze
Four millennia of craftsmanship are celebrated in this show at the Rijksmuseum, which brings together 75 impressive objects – many of which are making their European debut
Silk Roads
More than 300 objects from the first millennium AD demonstrate the importance of cultural and material exchange across Asia, Africa and Europe
Paula Rego: Power Games
There are no fairy-tale endings in the powerful narrative paintings and sculptures on show at the Kunstmuseum Basel
Four things to see: Sculpture and landscape
Sculptures and their natural surroundings can shape each other in subtle and sometimes visually stunning ways, as these four artworks demonstrate
The endlessly debatable virtues of Dosso Dossi
The mystery surrounding the meaning of an allegorical painting by Dosso Dossi may be precisely its point, explains the curator Pierre Curie
Hans/Jean Arp & Sophie Taeuber-Arp
These versatile makers – one of the most influential couples of the 20th-century art world – are the subject of a major retrospective in Brussels
We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art
The importance of colour to Mesoamerican art and society is the subject of this show, which includes ancient objects as well as work by contemporary Indigenous colourists
Glenn Ligon: All Over the Place
The American artist brings word art to the Fitzwilliam in a sprawling retrospective that makes creative use of the museum’s permanent collection
The Reflected Self: Portrait Miniatures, 1540–1850
Compton Verney celebrates what was once one of the most popular art forms in Britain, proving that size really doesn’t matter
Glenn Lowry to step down as MoMA director after 30 years
The museum’s longest serving director is leaving in 2025; plus the artist Rebecca Horn has died at the age of 80, and the Italian culture minister has resigned after hiring his lover as an advisor
Behind the mask – the meaning of masquerade in West Africa
Kevin Dumouchelle of the National Museum of African Art explains what a fearsome 19th-century ceremonial mask meant to its makers in Côte d’Ivoire
Sotheby’s earnings plummet by 88 per cent in first half of year
Plus: open letter criticises Chinese interference in French museums, and Las Vegas is to get an art museum
Acquisitions of the month: August 2024
A Madonna of the Cherries by Quentin Metsys and a very rare sketchbook by Caspar David Friedrich are among the most important works to have entered public collections in the last month
Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers
The two years the artist spent in Arles and Saint-Rémy in the south of France are the focus of this exhibition at the National Gallery in London
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