Keep election-season woes at bay with masterworks of Black portraiture, musings on a Persian epic poem, Mickalene Thomas’s first international traveling solo show, and more.
And the annual tussle for the Turner Prize – a sort of blood sport-cum-pantomime, amped up by the tabloids – was how most of the public engaged with contemporary art’s provocative goings-on.
Tate Modern will explore different ways of collecting indigenous art, the gallery’s director has suggested. Karin Hindsbo said one of Britain’s most popular museums “cannot have the same ...