Former British Museum director to head new museum in Saudi Arabia
Plus: the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation gets a new president, and a 4,000-year-old temple and theatre complex is unearthed in northern Peru
Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body
To coincide with the Paris Olympics, the Fitzwilliam looks at the cultural ramifications of when the city last hosted the event
Elisabeth Frink: Natural Connection
Yorkshire Sculpture Parks presents the works on paper, plasters – and the bronze sculptures for which the artist is best known – that entered its collection in 2020
The Whispering Land: Artists in Correspondence with Nature
At the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, five Japanese artists try to bring the human and natural worlds into better harmony
Cold War Scotland
Geography made Scotland a key location during this period of geopolitical tension. National Museums Scotland looks at the relics of this recent past
The Labour Party has won the UK general election – and Lisa Nandy is the new culture secretary
Plus: Documenta appoints new search committee for an artist director | Jacqueline de Jong (1939–2024)
Frans Hals: Master of the Fleeting Moment
This travelling Frans Hals exhibition makes its merry way to the Gemäldegalerie, where paintings by the master are placed alongside more recent works
Seeing the time in colour: The challenges of photography
This exhibition at the Pompidou-Metz provides a panoramic yet pinpoint-sharp overview of the history of photography
Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan
Some 200 works drawn from more than 70 collections worldwide tell the story of Japan’s evolution into a globally-connected world power during the Meiji era
Women Artists between Frankfurt and Paris around 1900
Women artists in Paris and Frankfurt were integral to the development of European modernism, as an exhibition at the Städel Museum demonstrates
Acquisitions of the month: June 2024
A tender portrait by Gauguin of his young son and a bronze lion by Rembrandt Bugatti are among the most significant works to have entered a public collection in the last month
Bührle Collection’s provenance research found inadequate by highly critical report
Plus: Eike Schmidt loses bid to become mayor of Florence; and US Supreme Court reverses a ruling that protected Sackler family from civil lawsuits
Horse in Majesty – At the Heart of a Civilisation
The Palace of Versailles, which is hosting Olympic equestrian events this summer, canters through five centuries of equine art
Dalí: Disruption and Devotion
Surrealism’s most famous exponent had a profound respect for the Old Masters, according to this exhibition at the MFA Boston
Barbie: The Exhibition
More than six decades of fantastic life in plastic, from dream houses to the dolls themselves, go on display at the Design Museum in London
A World of Care: Turner and the Environment
Turner’s depictions of the effects of industrialisation are relevant to the climate crisis today, argues a show at the artist’s house in London
Four things to see: Data
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of the conceptual artist On Kawara, we look at four artworks that derive their power and meaning from data
The week in art news – Just Stop Oil protestors spray powder on Stonehenge
Plus: Matthew Teitelbaum, director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is stepping down; and the art dealer Barbara Gladstone has died
Francis Alÿs: Ricochets
The Mexico-based artist’s ongoing series focusing on children’s games from around the globe goes on show at the Barbican
Far and Away: Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection
The Morgan is celebrating its 100th birthday with an exhibition centred around its newly acquired collection of Dutch works on paper
Quilts: Made in Canada
The history of quilt-making is woven through with complex stories, as this exhibition of Canadian fabrics demonstrates
Women Impressionists
Works by four Impressionist women go on display in Dublin to celebrate 150 years since the movement was born
Four things to see: Music
In honour of the annual Fête de la Musique, which takes place this year on 21 June, we look at four objects that embody the fertile relationship between art, craft and music
The Flemish tapestry that takes us into the heart of a decisive battle
Nancy E. Edwards of the Kimbell Art Museum explains how a magnificent tapestry by Bernard van Orley re-enacts the Battle of Pavia
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