Apollo editor Edward Behrens chairs a panel discussion on the complex topic of restitution in the art world
Plus: tax relief for museums and galleries in the UK is made permanent, and Lucas Samaras (1936–2024)
A Chardin still life and a pair of wooden sculptures from medieval Japan are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
The Nasjonalmuseet Oslo’s retrospective of work by Britta Marakatt-Labba includes embroidered pieces that tell stories of Sami life
Paintings by the Austrian Expressionist artist are paired with work by her better-known peers at the Belvedere in Vienna
Some 175 photographs spanning Irving Penn’s seven-decade career go on show at the de Young Museum in San Francisco
For Ababri’s first major exhibition in the UK, the Barbican’s Curve gallery is filled with works that reflect on queer life and love
The San Franciscan painter and ceramicist uses jazz, podcasts and Bay Area nature to help him create fantastical anthropomorphic works out of clay
In honour of the centenary of Eduardo Paolozzi’s birth, we look at four works that convey the dazzling variety of forms mosaics have taken throughout history
Among the exhibitions that can be seen in a day trip from the fair are Frans Hals in Amsterdam, Immanuel Kant in Bonn and Sung Hwan Kim in Eindhoven
Plus: The Palestinian artist Fathi Ghaben has died after being unable to leave Gaza for medical treatment
The Met is pairing ancient Andean weaving with textiles by 20th-century women artists to explore the ties that bind them.
Some 100 irreverent works by the Pop art pioneer go on show at the Albertina in Vienna.
The V&A is shining a light on a mid-century architectural movement that fused modernist aesthetics with post-colonial sensibilities
The artist’s installations created from fluorescent tubes are lighting up the Kunstmuseum in Basel.
In tribute to Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the trailblazing African American who qualified as a doctor 160 years ago today, we look at four works that celebrate the women who have shaped medicine over the years
Plus: The V&A gets another chance to keep its 12th-century walrus ivory carving
The artist works from her home in the wilds of northern Finland, where she sews textile pieces beside a wood-burning stove to the sound of Sami radio
The Weltmuseum Wien makes its contribution to the International Year of the Camel with an exhibition that celebrates the mammalian family in its all forms
Medieval Christianity went all out for blood and what it represented. The Getty Center presents some macabre objects of devotion and some modern responses in kind
The Met presents art by figures from the African American-led movement and puts it at the heart of 20th-century modernism
The Maison Européenne de la photographie finds the writer looking outwards and pairs her observations with images from its own collection
To mark Winslow Homer’s birthday, we look at four very different marine scenes from across the ages – including one by the Boston-born painter himself
Plus: Mick Moon (1937–2024), and a round-up of the week’s most important museum appointments
December 2024
Emma Crichton-Miller
Apollo
Christina Makris
Christina Riggs
Rakewell
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