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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Masterpieces from the Borghese Gallery
Italian Old Masters take up temporary residence at the Jacquemart-André in Paris this month
Surrealism
A century after André Breton wrote the first Surrealist Manifesto in Paris, the avant-garde movement is being celebrated in its home city
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)
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
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