Art and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection

The Courtauld explores the long history of artistic forgery

9 Jun 2023

Into the Woods: French Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B. Cohen Gift

How 19th-century artists redefined the landscape genre

9 Jun 2023

Queer folk dress

The National Museum in Oslo invites contemporary artists to respond to traditional examples of rural dress

9 Jun 2023

In the studio with… Eriko Inazaki

The Japanese ceramicist enjoys the tranquility of working in an old building surrounded by rice fields – despite the occasional unwanted visitor

7 Jun 2023
The Blues (2022), Sandra Suubi. Courtesy the artist

Liverpool Biennial

The 12th edition of the event tackles the city’s complicated colonial histories

2 Jun 2023
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) (detail; 1972), David Hockney. Image: © David Hockney; photo: Art Gallery of New South Wales/Jenni Carter

Capturing the Moment

The Tate Modern considers how photography and painting have spurred each other to new heights

2 Jun 2023
The Visitors (2012), Ragnar Kjartansson. Courtesy the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik; photo: Elisabet Davids; © Ragnar Kjartansson

Ragnar Kjartansson: Epic Waste of Love and Understanding

The Louisiana traces the evolution of the Icelandic artist’s career

2 Jun 2023
Phaeton from The Four Disgraces (1588), Hendrick Goltzius. Art Institute of Chicago

Acquisitions of the Month: May 2023

The most expensive manuscript to ever be sold at auction and an impressive collection of Dutch Mannerist prints are among this month’s highlights

2 Jun 2023
Girls on the Pier (detail; 1904), Edvard Munch. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth

The painter of fear and loathing was also a keen observer of the natural world

2 Jun 2023

Moki Cherry: Here and Now

The Swedish artist’s wide-ranging practice included tapestry, costume design, painting, film and sculpture

26 May 2023

Gods, Heroes and Traitors: The History Image around 1800

The Albertina Museum considers how painters such as Jacques-Louis David and Henry Fuseli sought to measure themselves against the ancient past

26 May 2023

Naples in Paris

The Louvre makes room for 60 Italian masterpieces from the Museo di Capodimonte

26 May 2023
Bust of Marcus Aurelius, Roman (detail; 161–180 AD). Roman site and Museum of Avenches and Cantonal Museum of Archeology and History, State of Vaud

The Gold Emperor from Aventicum

A remarkable bust of Marcus Aurelius makes an exceptional excursion from Switzerland to Los Angeles

26 May 2023
The Wreck of Hope (detail; 2022), Tacita Dean. Courtesy the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery (New York/Paris/Los Angeles) and Frith Street Gallery, London; photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio

Tacita Dean

The artist reflects on the fragility of the planet at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris

19 May 2023

The Casablanca Art School

The Tate St Ives reveals how the experimental institution reimagined Moroccan art in the years after independence

19 May 2023

Baroque – Out of Darkness

The Statens Museum for Kunst considers 17th-century developments in science and philosophy inspired new styles of painting

19 May 2023
Flat Top (2008), Hurvin Anderson. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery; photo: Hugh Kelly; © Hurvin Anderson

Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings

The artist has been painting the same Birmingham barbershop for 15 years – and the results are now on show at the Hepworth Wakefield

18 May 2023

American Watercolours, 1880–1990: Into the Light

The Harvard Art Museums shows that the medium is considerably less wishy-washy – and more modern – than it sometimes seems

14 May 2023

China’s Hidden Century

The British Museum represents a century and more of imperial decline, civil uprisings and the birth of the modern republic in objects

12 May 2023

Josephine Baker. Freedom – Equality – Humanity

How the Missouri-born dancer became a sensation in Parisian night clubs and a champion of civil rights in the United States

12 May 2023

Larry Achiampong: Wayfinder

The British-Ghanaian artist’s work tackles histories of travel, migration and displacement

12 May 2023

André Butzer

A survey of the self-described ‘Science Fiction Expressionist’ at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid

5 May 2023

Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris

Pallant House Gallery in Chichester explores how the artist forged an independent career and style

5 May 2023

Young Picasso in Paris

The Guggenheim explores how the City of Light entranced the 19-year-old artist

5 May 2023