New Objectivity
August Sander’s ‘People of the 20th Century’ project seems as modern as ever – as does so much of the art of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement
Magali Reus: A Sentence in Soil
The London-based sculptor continues to put her personal stamp upon mass-produced objects
Glyn Philpot: Flesh and Spirit
Philpot was fêted as a society painter in his own day, but Pallant House focuses on his more radical side
Age of Armor: Treasures from the Higgins Collection at the Worcester Art Museum
Two of the most important collections of armour in the United States join forces in Denver
Matisse: The Red Studio
For this exhibition MoMA has tracked down the objects and artworks depicted in the artist’s famous painting of his studio
Vive le Pastel!
The Alte Pinakothek shows off the Bavarian State Painting Collection’s impressive collections of pastel paintings
Chairs! Dieckmann! The Forgotten Bauhaus Master
A show in Berlin asks us to regard the furniture designer as highly as his better-known Bauhaus contemporaries
True to Nature: Open-air Painting In Europe 1780–1870
The Fitzwilliam Museum reveals the relationship between the rise of plein-air painting and developments in the natural sciences
Mayor of Paris orders investigation into harassment cases at city’s museums
Plus: Vlodomyr Zelensky addresses the Venice Biennale and the Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch has died at the age of 83
Philip Guston Now
The postponed exhibition of the works of Philip Guston at the MFA Boston finally opens this Sunday
Nina Canell
The Swedish sculptor fills the Berlinische Galerie with works made out of unusual and uncanny materials
Walter Sickert
Tate Britain explores Walter Sickert’s ability to find theatrical elements in everyday life in its survey of the painter’s work
Pharaoh of the Two Lands
The Louvre presents a selection of spectacular artefacts from the time of the 25th Dynasty of Egypt
Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands
The exhibition of Persian masterpieces at the Toledo Museum of Art (23 April – 17 July) features more than 100…
Through a Glass Darkly: The Ripley Scrolls
Once considered the ‘science of change’, the work of the pre-modern European alchemists is explored in the exhibition at the…
Shirley Jaffe: An American Woman
Shirley Jaffe left New York for Paris in 1949, taking a studio in the rue Saint-Victor in the 5th arrondissement…
On the Road to Chiefdoms of Cameroon: The Visible and the Invisible
Presenting over 300 works and 260 treasures, ‘On the Road to Chiefdoms of Cameroon: The Visible and the Invisible’ at Musée du…
The week in art news – Turner Prize shortlist announced
Plus: Jessica Bell Brown named head of contemporary art at Baltimore Museum of Art and Kim McAleese appointed director of Edinburgh Art Festival
Aristide Maillol
The Musée d’Orsay looks at the career of the most important modern French sculptor after Rodin
Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents
The Met explores how conflict is presented in the painter’s elemental works, both on land and at sea
Scottish Women Artists Transforming Tradition
The Sainsbury Centre shines a light on some of the leading Scottish women artists of the last century
Champollion’s Adventure: The Secrets of the Hieroglyphs
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France celebrates the bicentenary of Jean-Franćois Champollion’s translation of the Rosetta Stone
Raphael
The National Gallery explores the painter’s influence on architecture, archaeology and poetry
Seeing London through Frank Auerbach’s eyes