ReviewElias Sime
Wellin Museum presents second major US exhibition devoted to Ethiopian artist Elias Sime
The artist, who will be awarded the Smithsonian's African Art Award later this month, has also been commissioned by the Ethiopian prime minister to create a public garden in the royal palace
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Three exhibitions to see during Barcelona Gallery Weekend
From an expansive exhibition on colonial legacy to a torn apart racing car channelling Tiepolo and Top Gear
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Lempicka’s first US show in nearly six decades to Jacolby Satterwhite’s intimate and immersive environment
ReviewBiennials & festivals
Bubbling pools and animatronic snakes in Pierre Huyghe's Okayama Art Summit
Second edition of the Japanese triennial includes works by 18 artists that interact and overlap with each other
ReviewExhibitions
Rembrandt-Velázquez: a match made in curatorial heaven
Exhibition at the Rijksmuseum reveals both artists as masters of psychology and technique
ReviewExhibitions
The Empire strikes back? Kara Walker's fountain makes a splash at Tate
US artist takes on British Empire’s legacy and the Transatlantic salve trade in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Neue Galerie’s Kirchner retrospective to John Singer Sargent’s rarely seen charcoal portraits at the Morgan Library and Museum
ReviewBook Shorts
Catalogue of Colmar Treasure conjures up picture of 14th-century bourgeois Jewish life in France
Hoard of objects loaned by Paris's Musée de Cluny to the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells a complex tale
ReviewExhibitions
High tension: metal guru Antony Gormley pushes the limits for Royal Academy show
London exhibition tells a complex story of body, space and boundaries
ReviewArt market
Viennacontemporary unfazed by Austrian snap elections
City's vibrant gallery scene echoes spirit of Noughties Berlin
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: William Blake at Tate Britain
We take an in-depth look at the London survey of the visionary’s work and round-up what the critics are saying
ReviewBooks
Titan of Turin: Italy's greatest interior decorator receives definitive scholarly book
Bertrand de Royere provides a thorough examination of the life the 19th century decorator and furniture designer Pelagio Palagi
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Grayson Perry's piss-take pots to Dayanita Singh's mobile museums
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Met Breuer’s Vija Celmins retrospective to Kehinde Wiley’s first public sculpture
ReviewBooks
Back to scuola: book series provides accessible introduction to Italian and Northern Renaissance art
The five volumes offer a range of perspectives and chronological breadth for budding scholars of the field
ReviewBook Shorts
Not all about nudes: volume uncovers new area of Lucian Freud’s work
Best known as a portrait painter, the artist was also fascinated by plant life
ReviewPerformance art
I crawled down New York’s streets for Pope.L's Conquest performance
The project was both silly and unsettling, completely theatrical and real
ReviewBooks
National Gallery definitively catalogues 'small but perfectly formed' collection of French 18th century paintings
Humphrey Wine’s lavishly illustrated book details the London museum's 60 authentic works and 12 replicas, copies or pastiches
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Art films worth seeing from the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival
Claes Bang takes the lead in two art dramas, while Cunningham dances through the decades
ReviewPhotography
Diversity drives Unseen Amsterdam as 19 new galleries arrive
New artistic director Marina Paulenka takes the reins of the annual photography festival this year
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Three exhibitions to see in Los Angeles this weekend
The West Coast gallery season opens with its own slate of must see shows, from Tala Madani's scatological depictions of motherhood to Kenny Scharf's jabs at consumerism
ReviewBook Shorts
Stories of New Orleans's opulent cemeteries collected in unusual book of photographs
The urban graveyards of New Orleans are rich in commemorative monuments and sculpture
ReviewBooks
'The guardian of Vincent’s legacy': new biography details devoted life of Van Gogh's sister-in-law Jo Bonger
Bonger's encounter with Trotsky and her tireless effort to preserve the artist's work are explored in the new book by Hans Luijten
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Three exhibitions to see during Berlin Art Week
From an artist occupation in an abandoned building to Ai Weiwei's return to his roots
ReviewBook Shorts
Beyond Europe: book on illuminated manuscripts reveals worldwide nature of the Middle Ages
New academic concept of "Global Middle Ages" explored through a survey of illustrated texts from around the world
ReviewExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Helen Beard's sexually fluid paintings to Helene Schjerfbeck's unique Nordic Modernism
ReviewExhibitions
Christian Marclay communes with Snapchat in a barrage of sounds and images at Lacma
Visitors undergo a chain of experiences generated by engineers’ algorithms
ReviewBook Shorts
The first book on official Australian art and artists in the First World War explains how the national collection was made
The aim of Australian government’s war art scheme was to prioritise first-hand representations of the conflict
ReviewExhibitions
As Prado becomes hub for Fra Angelico works, new show builds on museum's exceptional collection
Paintings by Florentine artist at Madrid institution are beautifully and sensitively displayed alongside an impressive range of works in other media
ReviewBook Shorts
This book of essays explores the varieties and definitions of Islamic art
The authors ask “What is Islamic about ‘Islamic’ art?”
ReviewBook Shorts
Old animals remind us of old people in this book of photographs
Isa Leshko’s images plead for the better treatment of animals
ReviewBiennials & festivals
Scattered over 12 islands, Japan’s Setouchi Triennale offers poignant reflections of local life by the sea
Triennial features more than 200 sculptures and installations scattered across a dozen islands in the region
ReviewMedieval art
Glam rock: alabaster was not medieval England's 'poor man's marble' new book finds
Used in high status projects and throughout the continent, Kim Woods's detailed study challenges misconceptions of the carving rock's status
ReviewBook Shorts
This ancient book tells you all about the people you hate
This amusingly illustrated edition of Theophrastus’s Characters is as fresh today as it was centuries ago
ReviewBooks
A clever book for clever people: Marina Warner's sensitive artist essays dimmed by too many words
The brilliance of the scholar's examination of artists such as Paula Rego and Sigmar Polke is evident despite name dropping and verbose language
ReviewBooks
The scientific brotherhood: Pre-Raphaelite art put under the microscope
The Victorian artist group explored the connections between art and scientific observation to enhance art’s moral purpose
ReviewBooks
New catalogue presents virtuosity of Neo-Classicist goldsmith Luigi Valadier
Alvar González-Palacios’s book on the Italian decorator is a peak in his distinguished career
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the relationship between humans and nature at the Cooper Hewitt to love and unity at the Ford Foundation
ReviewBook Shorts
The travel books of Eugène Delacroix have now been translated into English
These notebooks reveal how the artist discovered the "real" Orient in North Africa and southern Spain and adjusted his paintings accordingly
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Into the cluttered maze of a packrat photographer
“Jay Myself” captures an artist and collector in his overflowing six-storey home
ReviewBooks
Fit for a king: book lays out the vast scale of the Orléans collection
The second Duke of Orléans’ assembly of his famous art collection may have been a covert preparation for seizing the throne of France
ReviewExhibitions
Unfinished quarters of a Bavarian palace create a striking backdrop for contemporary art
Imaginatively curated, the fourth edition of the Königsklasse exhibition is as monumental as the Herrenchiemsee Palace in which it is installed
ReviewBook Shorts
From Rivera and Kahlo to Ulay and Abramović—this story book tells the tales of art world couples
Famous and not-so-famous pairs of artists from Picasso and Gilot to Idris Khan and Annie Morris are quoted about how relationships work
ReviewBooks
The Arts and Crafts special relationship: how the British movement permeated US design culture
Companion book to an exhibition at the University of Texas at Austin offers new dimensions on the vast subject
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Three to see: Edinburgh Art Festival
Trisha Brown, Samson Young and James Richards are among the highlights of this year's cultural offering in the Scottish capital
ReviewExhibitions
St Louis’s Counterpublic triennial tests the limits of local engagement
In its first iteration, the exhibition paired artists with local storefronts far from the city’s major cultural districts
ReviewBook Shorts
This book gives a first-hand account of Second World War art and propaganda
A vivid account of the art arising from the experiences of the artist, George Plante
ReviewEdouard Vuillard
A mini magnificence: Edouard Vuillard at Bath's Holburne Museum
Odd points of view and tense interior scenes feature in an exhibition of small, precious works from early in the artist's career
ReviewExhibitions
‘Less is a Bore’: ICA Boston takes Maximalism to the max
Exhibition celebrates patterns yet transcends decoration
ReviewArt & Technology
The natural world meets the virtual in Jakob Kudsk Steensen's augmented reality experience at Serpentine Galleries
Marking the galleries' first Augmented Architecture commission, explores the sights and sounds of the flora and fauna in London’s Hyde Park
ReviewBook Shorts
This catalogue succinctly surveys Leon Kossoff’s London life paintings
Cityscapes and portraits, along with his Old Master transcriptions, feature in this book that accompanies an exhibition at Lodnon's Piano Nobile Gallery
ReviewExhibitions
A dizzying mash-up in a trio of New Museum shows
Scenes morph, body language pops, and colours gyrate in art by Lubaina Himid, Mika Rottenberg and Marta Minujín
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a travelling survey show on Stonewall to bronze sculptures of everyday objects
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From the magnetic Takis at Tate Modern to destruction and preservation of culture at the Imperial War Museum
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the poster master Alphonse Mucha to Mrinalini Mukherjee's organic, sexual forms
ReviewBook Shorts
A collection of 50 contemporary artists’ favourite works of art
Book looks at what they like and how they think it helps their own work
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From the little-known Renaissance painter Bartolomé Bermejo at the National Gallery to the Hayward Gallery's huge group show exploring gender fluidity
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Hito Steyerl's Park Avenue Armory takeover to Simone Leigh's commanding Plinth commission
ReviewBook Shorts
Book looks at the persistence of the scroll throughout the Middle Ages
Even when the codex became ubiquitous, scrolls held a special place for the written word
ReviewExhibitions
This carefully selected exhibition of the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo is small and perfectly formed
The MA curatorial show at the Barber Institute, Birmingham, challenges many of our assumptions
ReviewBooks
How Rheims Cathedral's destruction in the First World War had a happy ending
New book explores how the burnt cathedral created a 'profound intellectual rift' between Germany and France, then reconciliation
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Agents of faith: the art of votive offerings
Bard Graduate Center's 25th anniversary exhibition considers devotional offerings across religions
ReviewConservation & Preservation
Quarries, quarrels and a lesbian affair: the life of sculptor Mary Spencer Watson
The Dorset farmhouse in which she lived with her father, the portrait painter George Spencer Watson, has been recently restored by the Landmark Trust
ReviewBooks
Michelangelo for beginners, and a new view of the master’s bronzes
Three new books offer fresh angles on the Renaissance master
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Three exhibitions to see in Basel this weekend
From the towering ambitions of a young Picasso to Rebecca Horn's Body Fantasies
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
Celebrate Pride Month with commemorations of Stonewall's 50th anniversary
ReviewBook Shorts
Catalogue captures re-creation of the destroyed Tiepolo ceiling frescoes in Milan
Historic photographs and contemporary papers have been used in new book to re-imagine the cycle
ReviewExhibitions
How Renoir’s nudes helped the Clark get its groove back
An exhibition sheds refreshing new light on the artist’s development
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Speaking frankly: Robert Frank on his work and life
A documentary originally made in 2004 about the Swiss-American photographer and film-maker finally opens in US theaters 15 years later
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Michael Rakowitz’s recreations of bombed artefacts at the Whitechapel Gallery, to Faith Ringgold’s story quilts at the Serpentine Gallery
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Three exhibitions to see in Boston this weekend
From gender bending fashion at the MFA, Boston to Joan Jonas's animal treasure hunt at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
ReviewBooks
What was the real purpose of the English country house library?
Mark Purcell's study explores 19th-century bibliomania and rejects the notion that books in historic libraries were "bought by the yard"
ReviewBooks
Coming out of one’s shell: new book explores overlooked mollusc art by naturalist's daughters
Martin Lister enlisted his daughters Susanna and Anna because of the unreliability of the best professional engravers
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William Hunter and the enlightened art of science
A new publication brings together the Scottish surgeon's art collection for the first time in many years
ReviewJan Weenix
A family affair: three generations of Weenix showcased in two-volume magnum opus
The new book features newly discovered appendices, including the profligate Jan Baptist’s three-volume bankruptcy file