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Rose Wylie Memories Relived and Shared

Jasper Johns: between the clock and the bed

Tracey Emin’s A Second Life at the Tate Modern: beyond the YBA heyday, the artist sings anew

Can the Louvre still be saved?

Art after Ovid

Rare Basquiat Drawings Go On View in Denmark

The Resurging Relevance of The School of London Painters

Yoko Ono’s Art Is an Exercise in Hope

The Worst Show of 2025

How Kaari Upson turned her world upside down

“In the rush to draw a line under the age of the starchitect, we’re at risk of losing more than we think”

Between Worlds: Visitors to 37-08 Utopia Parkway

Bright shiny art

Lucian Freud The Curator’s Egg National Portrait Gallery

The AI Slop of Pierre Huyghe

Zip it

The Bedazzling, Wild Designs of Modernism’s Forgotten Genius

Seurat and the sea – Courtauld Gallery

Eugène Atget, Readymade Icon

“Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture” Goes on View At The Frick Collection

Henri Rousseau’s wild dreams

Prisoner of war

German Expressionist Gabriele Münter Finally Gets Her Moment in the Spotlight

The private lives of Gwen John

No longer the best advert for good art

William Eggleston: The Last Dyes at David Zwirner

The Unfolding of Time in Paint

A New British Museum Exhibition Peels Back the Layers of the Samurai Myth

Celebrated Gallerist Marian Goodman Has Died at 97

The Woman Who Immortalized the Bauhaus

A man of women

Christmas break

Playing with Fire: Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto

Mrinalini Mukherjee and the giants of Indian art

L.A. exploded into a world art capital. I was lucky to be here to witness it

State of the Art

Hot pink stained glass in Notre Dame? Experts tell a skeptical public it’s all part of tradition

Remembering Martin Parr (1952–2025)

An Exhibition at the Met May Just Make Finnish Modernist Helene Schjerfbeck Your New Favorite Artist

Jeff Koons with Joachim Pissarro

Westwood | Kawakubo: NGV hosts the works of two iconic catwalk rebels

June Leaf: ‘Shooting From the Heart’: The Grey Art Museum Honors a Lifetime of Uncompromising Creation

Bridget Riley and the pleasure of looking

Frank Gehry, masterful architect who transformed L.A.’s urban landscape, dies at 96

Five Ways of Looking at Wifredo Lam

Tyler Mitchell: the photographer of the moment

The 2025 Power 100: A User’s Guide

Protest Photography

Varnish & Virtue

“Origins of Impressionism” at the Met

Recollecting Forwards

Jennifer Packer: Dead Letter

The Conjurer of the Sublime vs. The Cloud Architect: Turner and Constable at Tate Britain shows off a good old fashioned rivalry which is utterly spell-binding

Robert Therrien’s smashing retrospective is among the year’s best museum solo shows

William Nicholson and the pleasure in the paint

When Homer Went to Gloucester

Spectrum of desire

Get Cartier! How Jean Nouvel turned an old Paris department store into a museum to rival the Louvre

Unintended Beauty

The rise and rise of private foundations in France

Finland’s lighthouse

Studio Museum in Harlem Reopens in a Stunning New Home

Refurbishing modernism

Gifted by Emperor Nicholas II to the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna on Easter Day, 1913: the Winter Egg

The enduring appeal of Limoges

Malick Sidibé Was an Architect of Utopia and Purveyor of Nostalgia

The fallout from Nigeria’s spectacular $25m museum and the Benin Bronzes

Wright of Derby: From the Shadows, National Gallery review – an exhibition that illuminates the shadows of the enlightenment age

Egypt’s Grand Museum opens, displaying Tutankhamun tomb in full for first time

Facing the truth about apartheid

100 years of Calder’s circus

This 17th-Century Female Artist Was Once a Bigger Star Than Rembrandt. Why Did History Forget About Johanna Koerten and Her Peers?

A Devotion to Art

Paris Photo 2025: Exploring the Curation

In the Shadow of Ruth Asawa

L.S. Lowry’s ‘Coming Out of School’: Painting His Own Gray World

The Louvre’s Jacques-Louis David Retrospective Offers a Fresh Perspective on the French Master

Juliana Halpert Rates the Los Angeles Art Scene’s Tricks and Treats So Far This Fall

Framing in museums

How a polka-dotted pumpkin became the world’s most coveted art installation

Meet the Gods and Goddesses in the Met’s ‘Divine Egypt’

Dismantled or Not, Confederate Monuments Still Have Power. This New Landmark Exhibition Grapples With It.

5 Things to Know about the Friendship of Manet and Morisot

Fra Angelico

One painting at a time: ‘The Third of May 1808’ by Francisco Goya

Wayne Thiebaud’s slices of Americana

Taking a dance through Cecil Beaton’s fashionable world

The Turner prize is the cockroach of art

A Night at Max’s Kansas City: Seeing and Being Seen in the 1970s NYC Art World

Renoir’s drawings showcased in major exhibition, the first of its kind in over a century

New York’s Biggest Monet Show in 25 Years Is a Revelation

British Museum starts fundraiser to save rare gold pendant of Henry VIII

Peter Doig Turns Serpentine Into A Living Soundscape With ‘House Of Music’

Nigerian Modernism in London: ‘A bold new language for art’

Calder Gardens, a Stunning New Tribute to Alexander Calder, Opens in Philadelphia

The sublime and silly art of Sèvres

Inside the V&A’s Marie Antionette Style with curator Dr Sarah Grant

How Hans Ulrich Obrist Became the World’s Most Influential Curator

Rauschenberg’s New York and the problem of seeing only surfaces

Michaelina Wautier: the female Flemish artist now seen as an old master

Lee Miller review, Tate Britain – Seeks to rescue the artist from her role of iconic beauty and muse

Art Deco at 100: All Cocktails and Jazz?

Gilbert & George review, 21st Century Pictures: Hayward Gallery exhibition is quite hectically of the moment

How Europe Became Obsessed With Chinese Art (Chinoiserie)

Theatre Picasso review, Tate Modern – Familiar works transformed by a bold, atmospheric setting

‘The Art of Manga’ Brings New Worlds to the de Young Museum

In Milan, the fashion world gathers to say goodbye to Giorgio Armani at his final show

‘Sixties Surreal’ Curator Dan Nadel Is Expanding American Art History, One Outlier at a Time

The Lucas Museum and the Question of Narrative Art

The Trailblazing, Shapeshifting Artist Suzanne Duchamp Gets a Museum Retrospective, Finally

Enthusiastic about Pictures

Kerry James Marshall: The Histories

Seydou Keïta’s Revelatory Portraits of Malian Life

‘Little Beasts’ at the National Gallery

Georges de La Tour, the luminous to rediscover at the Jacquemart-André Museum