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Gallery: ‘Assyria to Iberia’ at the Metropolitan Museum
Highlights from the ‘dawn of the classical age’
Sorolla and the United States
The Valencian painter Joaquín Sorolla achieved considerable success in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This exhibition looks particularly…
Muse Reviews: 21 September
Great British artists in the limelight this week: ‘Late Turner’ at Tate; Christopher Dresser at the Fine Art Society; and Paul Nash on BBC Four
Can artificial intelligence really identify artistic influence?
Scientists have developed an algorithm that identifies visual affinities between paintings. Are we all out of a job?
Forum: Would independence for Scotland compromise its museums and galleries?
The Scottish independence referendum takes place on 18 September. What would a ‘Yes’ vote mean for the country’s museums and…
Gallery: ‘Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s’ at LACMA
Highlights from LACMA’s latest exhibition of German Expressionist cinema
Review: ‘Jim Dine: A History of Communism’ at Alan Cristea Gallery
Dine turns Soviet-era lithographic stones into contemporary art
‘Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album’ at the Royal Academy, London
Hopper treads the line between documentary and art expertly
Review: Christopher Dresser at the Fine Art Society
Overlooked for decades, Christopher Dresser is now recognised as one of the most influential figures in 19th-century design
Gallery: Constable at the V&A, London
Preliminary sketches sit side by side with major oils by the British master in a new exhibition
Muse Reviews: 14 September
Inedible gardens and Jasper Johns’s regrets…our round-up of recent reviews
Review: ‘Max Weber’ at Ben Uri Gallery, London
Why has the UK waited so long for an exhibition of this artist’s work?
Gallery: ‘Perugino, Master of Raphael’ at the Musée Jacquemart-André
Masterpieces by Perugino and his pupil Raphael go on display in Paris
Ryan Gander’s plans for an art school in Suffolk
The artist outlines his plans for a new art independent art school in his hometown of Saxmundham, Suffolk
Creative schools: the artists taking art education into their own hands
Fees and funding cuts are taking their toll in the UK, but artists are a resourceful lot…
From the Archives: September Apollo
The Warburg Institute in London was celebrated in the October 1970 issue of Apollo. But as custodianship of the organisation comes under scrutiny, its future hangs in the balance
Sculpture Victorious
Art in an Age of Invention, 1837–1901 The Yale Center for British Art explores how and why sculpture proliferated in the…
Review: Al Jazeera’s Rebel Architecture
Al Jazeera’s ‘Rebel Architecture’ series challenges the ways in which we view the role of the architect
Autumn Highlights: what to watch out for in Berlin
A look ahead at some of the contemporary art exhibitions opening soon in Berlin
Inquiry: Hard times for the UK’s regional museums?
From the outside, the UK’s regional museums may look to be in rude health. But how have recent funding cuts affected what’s happening behind the scenes?
Autumn Highlights: what to watch out for in Paris
Paris is getting back into gear after the August exodus. What’s coming up in the city’s art calendar?
Review: ‘Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff’ at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies
Marshall tackles the history of slavery, race politics, black power or social emancipation in bold but ambiguous ways
Autumn Highlights: what to watch out for in Los Angeles
What’s next for the Los Angeles art world? A look ahead at some of the gallery openings and relocations coming up this autumn
The Classics Cabal
Forget PPE…Classics is the humanities subject that rules. Is the subject’s future brighter than people tend to think?