Maurice de Vlaminck: Modern Art Rebel

The first exhibition of de Vlaminck’s work in Germany since his death in 1958 demonstrates his remarkable knack for intensely colourful landscapes

6 Sep 2024

Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art, and Culture

The rich visual history of gameboards since the mid 18th century is celebrated in this show, which also highlights how abstract art influenced game design

6 Sep 2024

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment

An exhibition in Washington, D.C. displays 130 works by the leading lights of Impressionism, and zooms in on how photography shaped the movement

6 Sep 2024

Introducing the Apollo 40 Under 40 Craft

This year’s list celebrates the most talented young people making work that blurs the line between art and craft

2 Sep 2024

Former head of Frieze fairs Victoria Siddall appointed director of National Portrait Gallery

Plus: British museum shortlists five architects for major refurbishment, and the art historian David Anfam has died at the age of 69

30 Aug 2024

The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917

Public commissions during the period known as the American Renaissance focused heavily on the human figure

30 Aug 2024

Mark Bradford: Keep Walking

The American artist’s monumental works, often made from found materials, get a suitably spacious setting at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin

30 Aug 2024

Masterpieces from the Borghese Gallery

Italian Old Masters take up temporary residence at the Jacquemart-André in Paris this month

30 Aug 2024

Surrealism

A century after André Breton wrote the first Surrealist Manifesto in Paris, the avant-garde movement is being celebrated in its home city

30 Aug 2024

Creative Scotland closes its key fund for artists amid government budget freeze

Plus: Staff at the Noguchi Museum stage a walk-out over its dress code; and Alain Delon (1935–2024)

23 Aug 2024

Lee Ufan: Quiet Resonance

At the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, the contemplative Korean sculptor gets his first ever solo show in Australia

23 Aug 2024

Firing the Imagination: Japanese Influence on French Ceramics, 1860–1910

French ceramicists embraced japonisme with open arms, as an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art demonstrates

23 Aug 2024

Roots

An exhibition in Basel shows how the Russian-born German artist Walter Spies helped shape the art of Bali after moving to the island in the 1920s

23 Aug 2024

Robert Longo

The American artist grapples with history, politics and the natural world through large-scale hyperrealist drawings in Vienna

23 Aug 2024

Stonehenge megalith transported from Scotland, not Wales, study finds

Plus: the British Museum admits that it broke the law; and Kasper König (1943–2024)

16 Aug 2024

In Dialogue with Benin: Art, Colonialism and Restitution

At the Museum Rietberg, an exhibition of objects looted by the British after they invaded Benin City in 1897 asks difficult questions about restitution – but also celebrates the historic kingdom’s rich artistic heritage

16 Aug 2024

Still Performing: Costume, Gesture, and Expression in 19th Century European Photography

An exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum shows how early photographers staged scenes with drama, humour and an eye for composition

16 Aug 2024

Caspar David Friedrich: Where it all started

The German Romantic artist created much of his most impressive work in Dresden, where the 250th anniversary of his birth is being celebrated through an exhibition of his paintings and drawings

16 Aug 2024

Magdalena Suarez Frimkess: The Finest Disregard

Paintings, drawings, print and ceramics by the Venezuelan-born artist best known for her cartoon-inspired clay sculptures go on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

16 Aug 2024

Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund takes stake in Sotheby’s

Plus: Harvard refuses to remove Sackler name from university art museum, and Slovak culture minister fires director of the national gallery

9 Aug 2024

100 Years of Eduardo Chillida with the Telefónica Collection

The Basque sculptor’s country home near San Sebastián is marking the centenary of his birth in style

9 Aug 2024

Bonnard-Matisse, a friendship

Both artists were close to the French dealers and publishers who created a home for their personal art collection at the Fondation Maeght in the south of France

9 Aug 2024

Germaine Richier: La Méditerranéenne

Expressive modernist figures by the French sculptor populate the site of an abandoned lead mine in Marseille

9 Aug 2024

George Condo: The Mad and the Lonely

Grotesque portraits and sculptures by the American artist take up residence on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra

9 Aug 2024