Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
Some 150 works by such luminaries as Ed Rossbach, Yayoi Kusama and Ruth Asawa put a different spin on the history of abstract art
Remnants
Fifteen works of art depicting Apartheid-era South Africa in photography, prints and a painting go on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Edi Hila | Thea Djordjadze
Paintings by one of the great chroniclers of communist and post-Soviet Albania are displayed alongside site-specific works by the younger, Georgian artist Thea Djordjazde
The World of King James VI and I
The National Galleries of Scotland pull out all the stops in exploring the life and times of the Stuart king
The very smart cars of Ettore Bugatti
With its sensuous design and sleek fittings, the Bugatti 57C Vanvooren – like many of the manufacturer’s models – has become a style icon
National Endowment for the Humanities funds intended for Trump sculpture park
Plus: the global value of art sales has fallen by 12 per cent, and Pierre Terjanian will be the next director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers
Filling the rotunda of the Guggenheim in New York, this survey of the protean American artist captures his verve, bite and intellectual range
Tarō Okamoto: Reinventing Japan
One of the most distinctive Japanese artists of the 20th century gets a survey in Paris, the city that shaped his art and worldview in the 1930s
Jennie C. Jones: Ensemble
The American minimalist has always been fascinated by sound, and is now bringing her string-instrument sculptures to the Met’s rooftop
Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition 2025
Dozens of instantly arresting photographs taken around the world in the last year go on display in this annual show at Somerset House
Smithsonian head tells staff institution ‘remains steadfast’
Plus: director of National Museum of African American History and Culture resigns, and Bavaria’s culture minister promises reform of State Paintings Collection after allegations of institutional failure
Amy Sherald: American Sublime
The portraitist gets her first solo show in New York, featuring striking paintings of cowboys, farmers, beauty queens and Michelle Obama
Thomas Schütte: Genealogies
Some 50 sculptures of heads, busts and bodies by the German artist are on display alongside 100 works on paper, revealing fresh insights into his process
Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s
A chance to see how the Second World War transformed American attitudes towards art, design and fashion
The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making
The National Gallery continues its bicentenary celebrations with two vast, dramatic charcoal-on-paper drawings that are rarely on display
Trump issues executive order to remove ‘improper ideology’ from Smithsonian
Plus: Looting at Sudan’s National Museum | South Korean heritage sites threatened by country’s worst wildfires | Christophe Cherix appointed next director of MoMA | and more
Picasso, Miró, Léger and the Many Voices of Modernism
An exhibition in Denmark presents lesser-known modernists alongside the usual 20th-century titans
Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots
The largest survey of the Arte Povera artist in the UK encourages us to think differently about the boundary between art and nature
Discovering Dürer
Though most celebrated for his woodcut prints, Albrecht Dürer was also a master engraver, as this free exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum makes clear
Ruth Asawa: Retrospective
A major survey of Asawa’s work in San Francisco covers six-decades and reminds us that there was more to her work than wire sculptures
Four things to see: Royal patronage
The 400th anniversary of Charles I’s ascent to the throne is a reminder that rulers, from the Medicis to the Mughal emperors, have long patronised artists
Acquisitions of the month: February 2025
Eastern icons for the Louvre and French Old Masters for the Art Institute of Chicago are among the most important works to have entered public collections recently
Tracey Emin’s passion for painting
In a powerful painting acquired by the Yale Center for British Art, the artist grapples with universal themes of love and loss, explains the museum’s director, Martina Droth
British Library’s £1.1bn extension goes ahead, backed by Japanese developer
The British Library can now go ahead with a huge £1.1bn expansion after the Japanese real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan…
Suzanne Treister’s tarot offers humanity a new toolbox