The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is celebrating the artist’s infinite variety through an exhibition of drawings, photographs, films, jewellery and more
The British-Nigerian artist is exhibiting new and old works at the Serpentine, in his first institutional show in London in two decades
An unfairly neglected 19th-century innovator gets the exposure he deserves at the Getty Center
A Poussin Last Supper and a rare oil painting by Remedios Varo are among the most exciting works to have entered public collections over the last month
The American artist and academic gets up at 5.30am and finds inspiration in moths, dinosaurs and Dante when working in her barn in Connecticut
The British artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States includes characteristically layered works that dwell on the themes of memory and emotion
The practice of concealing portraits behind sliding covers or in puzzle-laden boxes is being unpacked in an unusual exhibition at the Met
The Getty Center is celebrating one of the most precociously gifted sculptors of the late 19th century
Beijing’s Palace Museum explores 200 years of diplomacy through more than 150 artworks and objects
The director of the National Portrait Gallery will take up his post at the troubled museum in the summer
Plus: Denver Art Museum returns 11 more artefacts to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam and some Damien Hirst sculptures may be more recently made than they seem
The Polish artist’s paintings inspired by famous works and made for an upcoming film get star billing at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam
The William Morris Gallery in London is a fitting host for works by Japanese makers inspired by the Art and Crafts movement
Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens are known primarily for their virtuosic large-scale paintings, but both were also highly skilled draughtsman
The Musée d’Orsay demonstrates how far the work of Monet, Morisot, Renoir and co. has come since the art establishment shunned it 150 years ago
As Hindu communities around the world celebrate Holi, we look at four artworks that depict this vibrantly colourful festival
Koen Bulckens of the Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp explains what makes the painter’s portrait of ‘the weeping prophet’ such an emotional tour de force
The Ugandan-born artist treats her sculpture studio as a strict place of work – except for the occasional glass of Japanese whisky
The French artist wrestles with the limits of reality in Venice, a city famous for masks and disguises
The Louvre has restored the Van Eyck masterpiece for the first time since it entered the museum in 1800
London’s National Portrait Gallery brings together the work of two photographers who worked a century apart
The artist’s refusal to restrict herself to a single medium makes the Museum Ludwig’s retrospective a restless affair
Plus: Met employees and volunteers call for the museum to defend Palestinian cultural heritage, and Russian security forces raid artists’s homes before the presidential elections
To mark the anniversary of Isadora Duncan’s first performance in Europe, we look at four artworks that immortalise the trailblazing dancer
December 2024
Emma Crichton-Miller
Apollo
Christina Makris
Christina Riggs
Rakewell
This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
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