Edward Burra – Ithell Colquhoun
Tate Britain’s pairing of two very different painters reveals that the artists have more in common than is usually thought
Wolfgang Tillmans
The Pompidou’s last show before it closes for five years is a wide-ranging retrospective of the photographer’s work
Patterns of Luxury: Islamic Textiles, 11th–17th Centuries
The Saint Louis Art Museum’s impressive collection of textiles from or inspired by the Arab world feature in a free exhibition
The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism
This dazzling exhibition at the Barberini brings together some 100 works to demonstrate the variety of the Impressionist master’s art
Acquisitions of the month: May 2025
A delectable still life of fruit by Chardin and a commanding depiction of King David by Guercino are among last month’s most significant museum acquisitions
Four things to see: Oceans
To celebrate World Oceans Day, we dive into four artworks that celebrate the blue planet’s beauty, biodiversity and bottomless capacity for artistic inspiration
How Jenny Saville turns paint into flesh
In her depictions of the human form, the artist pushes paint to its limits, explains Sarah Howgate of the National Portrait Gallery in London
Venice Biennale to follow Koyo Kouoh’s vision
Plus: lost Mayan city discovered in Guatemala, and investment company set to buy Artnet and take it private
Design and Disability
The V&A tells the story of how disabled, deaf and neurodivergent people have shaped and inspired modern design over the last 80 years
Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger: Emancipation from Rodin
In Berlin, the Alte Nationalgalerie’s restaging of a 1905 exhibition in Paris shows how both artists were developing their own sculptural languages
Face to Face: 19th-century Austrian portrait painting
Salzburg’s DomQuartier presents portraits by painters who were forced to get more creative after the advent of photography
Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues
The artist pairs her paintings of eerily abstracted faces and bodies with archaeological objects from the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens
Four things to see: Myths and legends
To commemorate the anniversary of the death of Peter Paul Rubens, who frequently depicted mythological characters, we look at four artworks that bring classical tales to life
Acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado dies at 81
Plus: chair of Creative Australia resigns in Venice Biennale controversy | directors of Jewish museum in Washington condemn murder of Israeli embassy staff outside building
The curious career of Jan van Kessel
In his teeming depiction of animals about to enter the ark, Jan van Kessel put an inventive spin on an original by his grandfather, Jan Brueghel the Elder
Venice and the Ottoman Empire
The Frist Museum considers the mercantile republic as a melting pot, where foreign fashions, customs and food were readily absorbed
Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron
The Morgan Library shows that, although she didn’t own a camera until she was 48, Cameron nudged photography into the realm of fine art
Paolo Veronese
The Prado’s survey of one of the great painters of 16th-century Venice also considers his influences – and the artists he influenced in turn
Pop Brazil: avant-garde and new figuration, 1960–70
Even as the military dictatorship repressed civil society in the 1960s, artists resisted the pressure to conform
In the studio with… Tara Donovan
The sculptor prefers not to have visitors in her sunlit studio in Brooklyn, where she tests materials and rereads books that have influenced her
Koyo Kouoh, curator of next Venice Biennale, has died at 57
Plus: UK government puts export bar on Botticelli painting | Lindokuhle Sobekwa wins Deutsche Börse photography prize
Art & the Book
Artists’ books come in all shapes, sizes and unusual formats, as this exhibition at the Warburg Institute makes clear
Ancient India: living traditions
The British Museum presents artefacts of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism and explores how all three faiths changed over centuries
The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond
The biophysicist Arthur Solomon built up a formidable art collection that is now on display in Cambridge
‘Like landscape, his objects seem to breathe’: Gordon Baldwin (1932–2025)