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A popular genre, a chat about the brain: on Hugh Groucutt's interesting idea that Homo sapiens took shape slowly and gradually, without revolutionary upheavals

In essence, the cognitive revolution of 40,000 to 50,000 years ago is one of the textbook stories. Homo sapiens supposedly grew clever all of a sudden, drew a bull on a cave wall and set off to conquer the planet. The trouble is that anatomically modern humans appeared

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Fendi to show Maria Grazia Chiuri's couture at Rome's GNAM gallery on 9 July

On 9 July Fendi will show its first couture collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri, who moved from Dior last October. The venue is not Paris but Rome's National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, the GNAM. The gallery building itself is a former seventeenth-century monastery of the

Coming Up · Art · Museums · New York

Exhibition to reunite Mondrian's last two boogie-woogie works after over thirty years

MoMA announces "Mondrian Boogie Woogie", running from 21 March to 31 July 2027 and the first survey of Piet Mondrian's New York works. A Dutchman, one of the pioneers of abstraction and co-founder of De Stijl, the international association for non-representational art, Mondrian fled

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Five exhibitions of 2026, from Renaissance Madonnas to a Viktor Kalinin retrospective

The Annunciation is the earliest good news in European culture, a message that came true in the flesh. This week, five exhibitions on a promise and its fate: an image made flesh, sketches for a church that was never built, a colossus shown through the most fragile of materials, and

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AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art opens "The Wrong Horizon", an exhibition of Anya Zheludь timed to the exact anniversary of the artist's death

The AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art has opened "The Wrong Horizon", an exhibition of Anya Zhelud, assembled to coincide exactly with the anniversary of the artist's death. Paintings, objects and installations spanning twenty-five years, among them early works of 2000-2001 that the public

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Kahlo, Renoir, Raphael and Duchamp among nine summer exhibitions in London, Paris and New York

If your holiday happens to land you in one of the three art capitals, here are three exhibitions for each, worth carving out half a day for. London 🎨 Frida: The Making of an Icon. Tate Modern, from 22 June. More than 130 works by Frida Kahlo and a separate strand

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"Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" has eclipsed the legacy of Vera Mukhina, and that injustice is at last being put right

"Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" has eclipsed the legacy of Vera Mukhina, and that injustice is at last being put right. From 3 June to 27 September the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art on Delegatskaya Street is showing a large retrospective of the work of the world-famous

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Seven exhibitions of 2026 on Russian heritage, emigration and the fragility of collections

Herzen was finishing "My Past and Thoughts" in London, and visiting compatriots scolded him for having long since left Russia and forgotten it too well. The émigré is always charged with forgetfulness, though it is usually the homeland that does the forgetting. This week, in the rubric of

Coming Up · Architecture · Art · Paris

Bridge covered with an inflatable rock structure in homage to Christo and Jeanne-Claude

The installation La Caverne du Pont-Neuf on the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris. On the night of 20 to 21 May 2026 the bridge was covered by an inflatable structure of printed fabric depicting snow-covered cliffs, 120 metres long and about 18 metres high. Its form

Coming Up · Art · Books · London

On 8 July Christie's will auction a rarest illuminated manuscript of the early fourteenth century, the Clermont-Tonnerre Grail, containing the first three texts of the Lancelot cycle

The estimate for the book is £1.5–2 million. The manuscript has spent 700 years in private hands, has never been publicly exhibited and has never been studied academically. It is now the earliest of the three privately owned copies of the cycle among the two hundred or so

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Today our "Where to Go" column takes us to the Chekhov museum-reserve: what to see at Melikhovo in May?

"Everything here is in miniature: a little avenue of lime trees, a pond the size of an aquarium, a little garden and park, little trees, but you stroll about a time or two, look closely, and the impression of smallness vanishes." So Anton Chekhov described the Melikhovo estate

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I have been to the Georges de La Tour exhibition "Between Shadow and Light" at the Musée Jacquemart-André five times, and each time there was a queue at the door, but if I could get in once more, I would gladly go

I have been to the Georges de La Tour exhibition "Between Shadow and Light" at the Musée Jacquemart-André five times, and each time there was a queue at the door, but if I could get in once more, I would gladly go. So I am determined not