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

Noah Davis

This exhibition at the Barbican shows that, before his untimely death in 2015, the painter captured a remarkable range of Black lives in America

31 Jan 2025

Turner: In Light and Shade

To mark the 200th anniversary of the artist’s birth, a suite of his landscape studies is paired with selected watercolours at the Whitworth

31 Jan 2025

Gold Icon The menacing visions of Jusepe de Ribera

Though clearly influenced by Caravaggio, the Spanish painter rendered saints and sinners in a ferocious style all of his own

31 Jan 2025

Macron to make announcement after leaks about Louvre’s dilapidated state

Plus: Artnet founder to retire after three decades | painter Jo Baer has died at the age of 95 | and insurers refuse pay out to owners of fake Basquiats

24 Jan 2025

Strange and Familiar Places

The Nelson-Atkins Museum presents recent photographic acquisitions that explore community and tradition in the United States

24 Jan 2025

Northern Lights

Artists from Canada and Scandinavia have long been drawn to the beauty of boreal forests, as this show at the Fondation Beyeler attests

24 Jan 2025

The World in Colors: Slovenian Painting 1848–1918

During Slovenia’s period of national emancipation artists absorbed influences from Western Europe while retaining a distinctive style

24 Jan 2025

Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism

From colourful landscapes to quasi-cubist works, Brazilian art in the mid 20th century was full of verve

24 Jan 2025

Parts of Louvre no longer fit for purpose, says director

The buildings are reaching ‘a worrying level of obsolescence’, writes Laurence des Cars to the French minister of culture, Rachida Dati

23 Jan 2025

Visionary film director David Lynch dies aged 78

Plus: Des Moines Art Center settles with land artist Mary Miss | Martina Droth is the new director of the Yale Center for British Art | Bonnie Brennan is the new CEO of Christies

19 Jan 2025

The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World

A chance to get up close with illuminated manuscripts and discover the often madcap ways in which medieval illustrators viewed foreign lands

17 Jan 2025

A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting

The Louvre celebrates its recent acquisition of a rediscovered work by the painter whom Vasari called the ‘first light’ of Renaissance art

17 Jan 2025

Gladiators of Britain

Gladiator fights took place on this scepter’d isle too, as an exhibition of archaeological finds at Dorset Museum attests

17 Jan 2025