First pharaoh’s tomb discovered in Egypt in more than 100 years

Plus: Netherlands returns 113 Benin bronzes to Nigeria and British Museum chooses Lina Ghotmeh to redesign ancient sculpture galleries

21 Feb 2025

Leigh Bowery!

Tate Modern celebrates the brief but influential life and work of the Australian-born performance artist, musician, fashion icon and muse

21 Feb 2025

Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900

Later Chinese bronzes were much more than pale imitations of ancient works, as this exhibition at the Met shows

21 Feb 2025

Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light

Macabre works by modernist masters hang alongside those by Cranach, Holbein and others in Oslo

21 Feb 2025

Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men

The artist’s crisp depictions of male labourers, soldiers and boatsmen are in the spotlight at the Getty

21 Feb 2025

Four things to see: Expressionist landscapes

To mark 45 years since the death of Oskar Kokoschka, we select four dramatic landscapes painted in the Expressionist style

21 Feb 2025

Creative Australia faces backlash after deselecting Venice Biennale artist

Plus: Qatar to get permanent national pavilion at Venice Biennale | Walter Robinson (1950–2025) | Brent Sikkema’s husband charged with hiring his killer

16 Feb 2025

We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists

The Smithsonian’s acquisition in 2023 of a collection of quilts by Black makers forms the backbone of this show

14 Feb 2025

Berlinde De Bruyckere. Khorós

Fleshy forms, unconventional materials and religious imagery come together in the work of the Belgian artist

14 Feb 2025

François Boucher’s ‘Resting Girl’

Boucher’s recently restored rococo masterpiece is in the spotlight at the Alte Pinakothek

14 Feb 2025

‘Degenerate’ Art: Modern Art on Trial Under the Nazis

The Musée Picasso celebrates Kandinsky, Kirchner and the many other artists condemned by the Nazis

14 Feb 2025

Four things to see: Love

This Valentine’s Day, we examine four artworks, spanning more than 2,000 years, inspired by love in its many different forms

14 Feb 2025

French arts sector denounces French budget cuts

Plus Brooklyn Museum to lay off tenth of its workforce | Crypto entrepreneur sues David Geffen for return of Giacometti sculpture | Christie’s withdraws El Greco from sale after Romanian objections

9 Feb 2025

Postcards from the Future

See the opening exhibition at PoMo, Norway’s newest private museum and northerly outpost of modern and contemporary art

7 Feb 2025
The Conversion of Mary Magdalene (c. 1661–62), Guido Cagnacci. Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Retrospect: 50 Years of the Norton Simon Museum

The Pasadena museum marks its 50th birthday by showing off its most important acquisitions

7 Feb 2025

Soane and Modernism: Make It New

The neoclassicist architect’s interest in light, space and abstraction endeared him to the modern movement, which regarded him as a forerunner

7 Feb 2025

Kandinsky’s Universe: Geometric Abstraction in the 20th century

The artist who imbued geometry with spiritual meaning inspired scores of other painters, on both sides of the Atlantic

7 Feb 2025

Acquisitions of the month: January 2025

Highlights include a trove of photographs by Robert Frank and the first Bernini statue in a Dutch public collection

7 Feb 2025

Prince Karim Aga Khan IV (1936–2025)

The Aga Khan IV, who has died at the age of 88, formed an important collection of Islamic art and dedicated some of his fabulous wealth to cultural heritage projects around the world

7 Feb 2025

Four things to see: Puppets

To mark 85 years since the premiere of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio, here are four artworks that speak to our enduring fascination with puppetry

7 Feb 2025

Gold Icon The Chinese artist who brought ink painting to a new audience

A meditative painting by Qi Baishi demonstrates his modern approach to an ancient art form, explains Jeremy Zhang of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco

3 Feb 2025

Macron announces ‘new Renaissance’ for Louvre, and new home for Mona Lisa

Plus: Native American painter Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has died at the age of 85 | Dutch police name suspects in theft of Romanian gold

2 Feb 2025

American Photography

This major survey at the Rijksmuseum includes early daguerreotypes, post-war photography, adverts, postcards and more

31 Jan 2025

Hokusai | Monet

Monet was a keen collector of Japanese woodblock prints and held Hokusai in high esteem, as this show in Minneapolis attests

31 Jan 2025