The Conversation, Fernando Pascullo/Wikimedia Commons
Rachel Cusk’s twelfth novel is strange, compelling and ferociously intelligent. It explores artists, mothers and daughters, and the ‘blankness of spirituality’ on the other side of gender.
Tate/Tom Finland/Beryl Cook Estate/Henry Moore Foundation/Nation Galleries Scotland
Rediscovered legacies in London, reimagined landscapes in Liverpool, small Sculptures in Bath and Degas in Glasgow.
(L-R) The Princess of Wales on the cover of Tatler, Queen Victoria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, and a detail of Vices Overlook’d in the New Proclamation by James Gillray.
Hannah Uzor/Tatler, Royal Collection Trust / National Portrait Gallery. Montage created with Canva
British monarchs have grappled with issues of representation, accuracy and flattery in portraits since the Middle Ages.
Mont Blanc from Beyond Coligny (1818) by Elizabeth Campbell.
National Museums Liverpool
This is a rare opportunity to see works by female artists that depict the landscape in a multitude of ways.
Henry Moore photographed by Allan Warren, and Moore’s sculpture Family Group, photographed by Andrew Dunn.
Wikimedia
As a war artist, Henry Moore’s work was influenced by the Blitz, separated families and the threat of nuclear escalation.
A Mona Lisa painting from the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci, held in the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain.
Collection of the Museo del Prado
The Mona Lisa has traditionally been associated with Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine silk merchant. But there’s plenty of evidence pointing to a different identity.
A May 2024 solar storm made the northern lights visible across parts of the northern U.S.
AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson
Phone cameras are an example of what’s called computational photography. Digital tools built into these cameras can enhance your images in real time.
Zendaya at New York’s 2024 Met Gala, which marked the opening of the Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion exhibition.
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The Met Gala explored fashion’s complex relationship with nature and the passing of time.
Tate/Lucy Green
A comprehensive show foregrounding the work of mostly lesser-known female artists.
Shardlake, Bridgerton season 3 and the new Raymond Briggs exhibition should all be on your radar this week.
Disney/Liam Daniel/Neftlix/ Andrew Hasson /Alamy
Much to enjoy as Bridgerton returns, a Tudor murder mystery intrigues, the International Booker prize is imminent, the National Gallery is 200 and the genius of Raymond Briggs is on display.
Cows, Red, Green, Yellow by Franz Marc, 1911.
Lenbachhaus Munich/Tate
The members of The Blue Rider weren’t thinking about art in the way we do today.
After the dust settled, Apple accepted the ad didn’t land as it hoped.
Apple
Crushing pianos, video games and emojis doesn’t seem to have delivered the slick messaging the brand was aiming for.
National Gallery
Usually relegated to the sidelines, Mary Magdalene is depicted with passion and power in this painting by a north Italian master.
The National Gallery 1886, Interior of Room 32 by Giuseppe Gabrielli.
Government Art Collection
We know next to nothing about the artist. We know still less about the people he depicted.
The recreated head of Shanidar Z, made by the Kennis brothers for the Netflix documentary ‘Secrets of the Neanderthals’ based on 3D scans of the reconstructed skull.
BBC Studios/Jamie Simonds
Scientists can’t yet tell how soft tissue overlayed bones, so this reconstruction is inevitably based on artistic licence.
A Lion’s Watermelon by Adam Rouhana (2024).
South West Bank
This year, much of the art addresses exile, diaspora, migration and colonial violence.
Ibrahim Mahama: Purple Hibiscus at the Barbican.
Dion Barrett/Barbican Centre
The bright pink fabric swaying gently in the wind stands in stark contrast to the grey tones of the brutalist architectural complex.
Enzo Mari in front of his works, The Nature Series. Left is No. 1: La Mela with Elio Mari and right, No. 2: La Pera (1961).
Ramak Fazel/Danese Milano/Design Museum
The exhibition is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to get close to Mari’s design process.
The new Banksy work on Hornsey Road in the Finsbury Park area of London.
EPA-EFE/Neil Hall
Many of those who celebrate Banksy hold contradictory positions on precisely the themes his works seem to address.
Installation view of Unravel The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art at the Barbican.
Jemima Yong/Barbican Art Gallery
Textiles have a deceptive simplicity that conceals their potential for subversion and political dissent.