Postcards from the Future
See the opening exhibition at PoMo, Norway’s newest private museum and northerly outpost of modern and contemporary art
Retrospect: 50 Years of the Norton Simon Museum
The Pasadena museum marks its 50th birthday by showing off its most important acquisitions
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
American Photography
This major survey at the Rijksmuseum includes early daguerreotypes, post-war photography, adverts, postcards and more
Hokusai | Monet
Monet was a keen collector of Japanese woodblock prints and held Hokusai in high esteem, as this show in Minneapolis attests
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
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
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
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
Strange and Familiar Places
The Nelson-Atkins Museum presents recent photographic acquisitions that explore community and tradition in the United States
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
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
Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism
From colourful landscapes to quasi-cubist works, Brazilian art in the mid 20th century was full of verve
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
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
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
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
Gladiators of Britain
Gladiator fights took place on this scepter’d isle too, as an exhibition of archaeological finds at Dorset Museum attests
How artists respond to disaster