Sekretärin beim Westdeutschen Rundfunk in Köln (detail; 1931), August Sander.

New Objectivity

August Sander’s ‘People of the 20th Century’ project seems as modern as ever – as does so much of the art of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement

7 May 2022

Magali Reus: A Sentence in Soil

The London-based sculptor continues to put her personal stamp upon mass-produced objects

7 May 2022
Glyn Philpot Acrobats

Glyn Philpot: Flesh and Spirit

Philpot was fêted as a society painter in his own day, but Pallant House focuses on his more radical side

7 May 2022

Age of Armor: Treasures from the Higgins Collection at the Worcester Art Museum

Two of the most important collections of armour in the United States join forces in Denver

7 May 2022

Matisse: The Red Studio

For this exhibition MoMA has tracked down the objects and artworks depicted in the artist’s famous painting of his studio

28 Apr 2022
Die Parze Lachesis (detail; c. 1730), Rosalba Carriera. Courtesy Bavarian State Painting Collections

Vive le Pastel!

The Alte Pinakothek shows off the Bavarian State Painting Collection’s impressive collections of pastel paintings

28 Apr 2022

Chairs! Dieckmann! The Forgotten Bauhaus Master

A show in Berlin asks us to regard the furniture designer as highly as his better-known Bauhaus contemporaries

28 Apr 2022

True to Nature: Open-air Painting In Europe 1780–1870

The Fitzwilliam Museum reveals the relationship between the rise of plein-air painting and developments in the natural sciences

28 Apr 2022

Mayor of Paris orders investigation into harassment cases at city’s museums

Plus: Vlodomyr Zelensky addresses the Venice Biennale and the Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch has died at the age of 83

22 Apr 2022

Philip Guston Now

The postponed exhibition of the works of Philip Guston at the MFA Boston finally opens this Sunday

22 Apr 2022

Nina Canell

The Swedish sculptor fills the Berlinische Galerie with works made out of unusual and uncanny materials

22 Apr 2022

Walter Sickert

Tate Britain explores Walter Sickert’s ability to find theatrical elements in everyday life in its survey of the painter’s work

22 Apr 2022

Pharaoh of the Two Lands

The Louvre presents a selection of spectacular artefacts from the time of the 25th Dynasty of Egypt

22 Apr 2022

Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands

The exhibition of Persian masterpieces at the Toledo Museum of Art (23 April – 17 July) features more than 100…

14 Apr 2022

Through a Glass Darkly: The Ripley Scrolls

Once considered the ‘science of change’, the work of the pre-modern European alchemists is explored in the exhibition at the…

14 Apr 2022

Shirley Jaffe: An American Woman

Shirley Jaffe left New York for Paris in 1949, taking a studio in the rue Saint-Victor in the 5th arrondissement…

14 Apr 2022

On the Road to Chiefdoms of Cameroon: The Visible and the Invisible

Presenting over 300 works and 260 treasures, ‘On the Road to Chiefdoms of Cameroon: The Visible and the Invisible’ at Musée du…

14 Apr 2022

The week in art news – Turner Prize shortlist announced

Plus: Jessica Bell Brown named head of contemporary art at Baltimore Museum of Art and Kim McAleese appointed director of Edinburgh Art Festival

14 Apr 2022

Aristide Maillol

The Musée d’Orsay looks at the career of the most important modern French sculptor after Rodin

8 Apr 2022
The Gulf Stream (1899), Winslow Homer. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents

The Met explores how conflict is presented in the painter’s elemental works, both on land and at sea

8 Apr 2022
The Uncivilised Cat (1930), Agnes Miller Parker. Photo: John McKenzie and The Fine Art Society; courtesy the Fleming Collection

Scottish Women Artists Transforming Tradition

The Sainsbury Centre shines a light on some of the leading Scottish women artists of the last century

8 Apr 2022
Jean-François Champollion's handwritten notebook with copies of the inscription of mummies (c. 1824–26). Courtesy: Museum of Turin. Photo: © BnF, Paris.

Champollion’s Adventure: The Secrets of the Hieroglyphs

The Bibliothèque Nationale de France celebrates the bicentenary of Jean-Franćois Champollion’s translation of the Rosetta Stone

8 Apr 2022
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Baptist (The Garvagh Madonna)

Raphael

The National Gallery explores the painter’s influence on architecture, archaeology and poetry

1 Apr 2022
Straßenbahn (detail; 1972) Georg Eisler. Photo: © Johannes Stoll

Georg Eisler

The artist’s bustling crowd scenes are on display at the Belvedere, Vienna

1 Apr 2022