A World of Care: Turner and the Environment
Turner’s depictions of the effects of industrialisation are relevant to the climate crisis today, argues a show at the artist’s house in London
Four things to see: Data
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of the conceptual artist On Kawara, we look at four artworks that derive their power and meaning from data
The week in art news – Just Stop Oil protestors spray powder on Stonehenge
Plus: Matthew Teitelbaum, director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is stepping down; and the art dealer Barbara Gladstone has died
Francis Alÿs: Ricochets
The Mexico-based artist’s ongoing series focusing on children’s games from around the globe goes on show at the Barbican
Far and Away: Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection
The Morgan is celebrating its 100th birthday with an exhibition centred around its newly acquired collection of Dutch works on paper
Quilts: Made in Canada
The history of quilt-making is woven through with complex stories, as this exhibition of Canadian fabrics demonstrates
Women Impressionists
Works by four Impressionist women go on display in Dublin to celebrate 150 years since the movement was born
Four things to see: Music
In honour of the annual Fête de la Musique, which takes place this year on 21 June, we look at four objects that embody the fertile relationship between art, craft and music
The Flemish tapestry that takes us into the heart of a decisive battle
Nancy E. Edwards of the Kimbell Art Museum explains how a magnificent tapestry by Bernard van Orley re-enacts the Battle of Pavia
Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries
This cycle of seven colossal tapestries, which plunges the viewer into the thick of a 16th-century battle, is on display in its entirety for the first time in the United States
Hannah Höch: Assembled Worlds
Some 80 photomontages by this pioneer of the form are on display in Vienna, alongside a selection of her drawings, paintings and prints
Summer Exhibition 2024
The public and Royal Academicians alike are invited to submit for the annual show, which has lit up the Academy’s London lodgings in a riot of colours and shapes for more than 250 years
Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture
The rebels who thumbed their nose at the serious-minded efforts of East Coast artists are celebrated in this colourful show in Seattle
Four things to see: Cars
To mark 180 years since Charles Goodyear got his patent for vulcanised rubber approved, we look at four artworks that capture the appeal of automotives through the years
Greece welcomes Turkish rejection of Lord Elgin’s right to remove Parthenon marbles
Plus: Dealers Robilant+Voena hit by employee lawsuit, and French Fluxus artist Ben Vautier has died at the age of 88
Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.
The firm’s chief silver designer was also an avid collector of decorative arts from all over the world, many of which he donated to the Met
Rembrandt & the World
The artist never left the Netherlands, but these etchings show that the animals, architecture and clothing from faraway places certainly sparked his imagination
William Blake’s Universe
A collaboration between the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Hamburger Kunsthalle puts Blake’s myth-making in the context of his European contemporaries
The Book of Marvels: Wonder and Fear in the Middle Ages
The Getty Center presents an illuminated French manuscript that takes armchair travellers to foreign and often fantastical places
Acquisitions of the month: May 2024
An uncanny family portrait by Lavinia Fontana and Sorolla’s striking copy of a Velásquez are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
Four things to see: Heavy weather
As climate change continues to affect the world and the way we see it, here are four paintings of weather events, which serve as dramatic reminders of the power of nature and of human vulnerability
In the studio with… Wendy Sharpe
The artist has all she needs in her capacious studio in Sydney, where her artist partner, some audiobooks and a Mexican papier-mâché skeleton keep her company
United States returns hundreds of looted antiquities to Italy
Plus: the classical archaeologist and art historian John Boardman has died at the age of 96
The Art of Pattern: Henri Matisse and Japanese Woodcut Artists
The Baltimore Museum of Art is pairing Matisse’s portraits of women with Japanese woodcut prints to reveal a shared interest in complex patterns
What would Jane Austen say?