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

6 Jun 2025

Wolfgang Tillmans

The Pompidou’s last show before it closes for five years is a wide-ranging retrospective of the photographer’s work

6 Jun 2025

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

6 Jun 2025

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

6 Jun 2025

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

6 Jun 2025

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

6 Jun 2025

Gold Icon 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

2 Jun 2025

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

1 Jun 2025

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

30 May 2025

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

30 May 2025

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

30 May 2025

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

30 May 2025

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

30 May 2025

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

25 May 2025

Gold Icon 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

24 May 2025

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

23 May 2025

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

23 May 2025

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

23 May 2025

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

23 May 2025

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

22 May 2025

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

18 May 2025

Art & the Book

Artists’ books come in all shapes, sizes and unusual formats, as this exhibition at the Warburg Institute makes clear

16 May 2025

Ancient India: living traditions

The British Museum presents artefacts of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism and explores how all three faiths changed over centuries

16 May 2025

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

16 May 2025