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

19 Apr 2025

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

19 Apr 2025

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

19 Apr 2025

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

19 Apr 2025

Gold Icon 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

19 Apr 2025

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

13 Apr 2025

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

11 Apr 2025

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

11 Apr 2025

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

11 Apr 2025

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

11 Apr 2025

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

6 Apr 2025

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

4 Apr 2025

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

4 Apr 2025

Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s

A chance to see how the Second World War transformed American attitudes towards art, design and fashion

4 Apr 2025

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

4 Apr 2025

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

30 Mar 2025

Picasso, Miró, Léger and the Many Voices of Modernism

An exhibition in Denmark presents lesser-known modernists alongside the usual 20th-century titans

28 Mar 2025

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

28 Mar 2025

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

28 Mar 2025

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

28 Mar 2025

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

28 Mar 2025

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

26 Mar 2025

Gold Icon 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

26 Mar 2025

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…

23 Mar 2025