The Easel
Heart of darkness
Marcel Duchamp, Reactionary? A MoMA Retrospective Exposes The Radical Artist’s Bourgeois Yearnings
Flora Indica unearths botanical drawings. They were lost to colonialism for two centuries
Where the Light Falls
Their art was whimsical, elegant, ‘scandalous,’ and colorful. It was also revolutionary.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Many A Moonlit Caveat
Van Dyck, the European
This Novel Traces Painter Richard Dadd’s Descent into Madness and Murder
Buckingham Palace’s Royal Picture Gallery Revives the Salon-Style Hang, Doubling the Number of Masterpieces on View
Who, Exactly, Were All Those Girls in Renoir’s Paintings?
‘Get wild’: 10 things to know about Tom Wesselmann
Through Graciela Iturbide’s Eyes: Ritual, Identity, and the Poetry of Mexico
Ana Mendieta review – were she still alive she’d be at the forefront of art in this century
Controversial Costumes at the Met’s Newest Galleries
‘A distinct Canadian character’: The 1920s paintings that changed how the world saw Canada
Who gets to be an American artist?
From Hokusai to Hogarth, a landmark new book explores the history of printmaking
Clearly Fake: Zurbarán’s Uncanny Realism
Frida Kahlo: Tate Mistakes the Icon for the Artist
James Turrell’s 100th Skyspace
Matisse’s Femme au chapeau: From Scandal to Icon
Willem de Kooning: The Breakthrough Years, 1945–50
The unsung artists of Spain’s Golden Age
Waldmüller: Landscapes – a cool Alpine antidote to London heatwaves
America 250: The Essential Paintings of Our Nation
Adored Image
MC Escher, the wizard of weirdness who inspired Pink Floyd — and me
How Gabriele Stötzer Defied the Stasi
Raphael and Antiquity
In Porto, airbrushing the Gehry legend
The World’s First AI Art Museum Has a Strange Way of Honoring the Rainforest
Anish Kapoor disorientates, delights and disturbs at the Hayward Gallery
JR’s inflatable cave across the pont neuf is now open in Paris
Did we all get Orientalism wrong?
The art of the unfinished masterpiece
What’s the Matter With Museums?
David Hockney, whose art celebrated sun-drenched Los Angeles, dead at 88
Why Duane Michals’s beautiful fictions matter more than facts.
‘I am very serious about being silly’: children’s illustrators on the art of storytelling
Sorry, but Pace’s cutbacks aren’t the death of mega-galleries
In London, Hauser & Wirth offers a rare glimpse into Francis Picabia’s experimental world
A Curator’s View
Marilyn Monroe at the National Portrait Gallery – the woman who became a masterpiece
Gaudí Centenary celebrates the legacy of an architect like no other
How Trump’s arch gets classical wrong
Brought to light
Saint-Porchaire Ceramics: Rediscovered Treasures of the French Renaissance
The chaos and passion of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek
I lived near a serial killer’: Steven Shearer on turning teen angst and death metal into high art
Book reveals how Chintz—India’s precious textile pattern—became a precolonial global export
Everything you need to know about the Bayeux Tapestry
My visit to the Russian show that plunged a dagger into the Venice Biennale’s heart
Digital artists were right all along, says Trevor Paglen
As Full-Time Art Critics All But Disappear, What Can We Learn From the Retiring Generation?
Anni Albers: the weaver who rewrote modernism
Paul Klee
Remembering Raghu Rai: The photographer who showed India to itself
Mum isn’t the only word at Tate’s magnificent Whistler show
Leonora Carrington At Last
Admit it, art snobs: Winston Churchill was a surprisingly decent painter
The 21st Century’s Biggest Art Trend is Not a Style. But Once You See It, You’ll Notice It Everywhere
Human Touch Wins Big With the 2026 Loewe Craft Prize
Beauty and Ugliness
The Ignorant Art Historian: The Blind Man’s Meal
‘It’s Personal’: Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer and Max Hollein on the Met’s Groundbreaking Merger With the Neue Galerie
AI induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening
I thought William Blake was a one-off but this powerful show surprised me
Georg Baselitz, the German painter who turned postwar art upside down, dies at 88
Cecily Brown: ‘Painting happens very quickly; often I don’t know if it’s working’
First Impressions of a Venice Biennale Torn Apart by the Present
Henry Moore at Kew: Monumental Nature
The fierce life of Louise Bourgeois
Recasting the monument for divided times
Silver is Dead: Long Live Silver
Spanish Baroque Painter Zurbarán: Essential Meditative Moments at the National Gallery
Ettore Sottsass: Italy’s king of anti-design
Francis Bacon: Reinventing realism
Art: my part in its downfall
The Bard Graduate Center Mounts the First U.S. Exhibition of Viollet-le-Duc’s Expansive Drawing Practice
Unfinished magic
Marcel Duchamp at MoMA: Five Revelations From the Artist’s First North American Survey in Over 50 Years
A Landmark Calder Exhibition with Over 300 of His Revolutionary Works Goes on View in Paris
Brassaï – the secret signs of Paris
Zumthor earns his L.A. stripes
Sacred Parallelogram
Hammershøi: The Eye That Listens
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt and His Bizarre Character Heads
How a humble print store in Cannes helped write modern art history
‘New Humans’ and the Strange End of Contemporary Art as We Know It
In the garden of the surreal
How much can we learn from the Shakers today? Many artists and designers are trying to find out
Get the kettle’s on
In Defense of Pet Portraiture as a Worthy Art Form
Raphael at the Met, Review: A Must-See Show the ‘Greatest Influencer’
Painter Hurvin Anderson’s blend of memory and history is mesmerising at Tate Britain
Start Here: 5 things to know about Michaelina Wautier
Matisse, 1941-1954 review – hit after glorious hit in a show of life-enhancing genius
The great imagination of John Vanbrugh
Charles Jencks’ garden of cosmic speculation translates science into shared experience
Leica hawk
Paris Rediscovers its Poetic Eye: Robert Doisneau Returns Home
Art market analysis: The 2026 Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report
What Do We Really Think of the New New Museum?
On Color Fidelity
Tudor Courtiers Exchanged Portrait Miniatures as Love Tokens. Centuries Later, New Research Is Unlocking the Secrets of These Intimate Artworks
Catherine Opie Documenting Marginalised Voices NPG
Beatriz González at the Barbican: brilliantly coded art that evaded the secret police
The People’s Treasures: Sharing Korea’s Cultural Heritage
‘Negatives are photographic truths’: the collector who fled Russia with a haul of second world war images
David Hockney review: The iPad paintings underwhelm but it’s hard not to be cheered by this show
Stubbs: Portrait of a Horse review – this magnificent nag deserves a longer canter
Pat Oleszko
A Sweeping Retrospective for Artist Carol Bove Positions Her Among the Sculptural Titans
Whitney Biennial 2026 Review: The Revolution Will Be Cute
Inside the Enigmatic Mind of Photographer Larry Sultan
Bird-Shaped Promises and Life After War: ‘Dagobert Peche: Ornamental Genius’ at the Neue Galerie
Blood on the Canvas
The Polite Art of Lending Loot
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