Julie Rrap, Disclosures: A Photographic Construct (detail), 1982, installation view. Julie Rrap: Past Continuous, Museum
of Contemporary Art Australia, 2024, black and white archival prints, colour cibachrome prints,
Museum of Contemporary Art,
purchased 1994. Image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist. Photograph: Zan Wimberley.
In a culture that seeks to make older women invisible, Julie Rrap’s latest exhibit, Past Continuous, is a gloriously defiant statement of self.
Instead of drawing a bath, surrealist Salvador Dalí decides to draw in a bath.
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A century ago, the French writer and poet André Breton penned his ‘Manifesto of Surrealism,’ launching an art movement known for creating bizarre hybrids of words and images.
Popular renderings of Lucy tend to dress her in thick, reddish-brown fur.
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The way Lucy has been depicted in newspapers, textbooks and museums shows how today’s cultural norms influence perceptions of the past.
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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.
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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.