Jeff Koons launched 125 sculptures into orbit on a SpaceX rocket this week. Perhaps they’ll hang out with the Pop art that went on a lunar holiday in 1969
The Bozar shows that Belgian Surrealists were not just following in the footsteps of their French contemporaries
The artist is the first to tackle a daunting question posed by the Sainsbury Centre in a series four of exhibitions: What is truth?
The artist’s centenary exhibition moves to Madrid and demonstrates that his Surreal and cerebral works are as modern as ever
The Dutch design duo known for combining high fashion with pure absurdity are the subject of a full-scale survey in Munich
The Haitian-Canadian artist surrounds himself with unlikely objects to spark his imagination, books about drawing, and about 25 different types of tea
From pancakes to parades, pre-Lent indulgences bring joy to countless communities around this time of year
The Dutch portraitist’s vivaciousness is in evidence at the Rijksmuseum’s exhibition of 50 of his greatest works
Seven of the artist’s portraits hang alongside works by his friends, collaborators, pupils and lesser-known Dutch contemporaries
The artist’s radicalism is being celebrated at Tate Modern, in a show that spans 70 years of art-making
German Expressionism and its influences on recent artists are in focus at the National Gallery of Art in Washington
Plus: a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll has been decoded and the CEO of Bonhams has resigned
A recently identified painting by Guercino and a series of Joseph Cornell boxes are among the most significant works to have entered public collections last month
Chinese New Year is nigh – but the zodiac’s most auspicious creature has a storied history of baring its fangs in many other cultures, too
The South African photographer believes that an artist’s studio can be a hotel room, a playground, a kitchen, a toilet – or even a crime scene
Plus: Rubin Museum to sell its building and move to touring model | Pompidou staff settle three-month strike and claim victory
The Courtauld Gallery is exhibiting a series of large-scale charcoal heads, drawn when Auerbach was in London in the 1950s and ‘60s
Pictures made using computer software designed by the late American artist go on display at the Whitney
The Mauritshuis is displaying work by the Dutch Golden Age painter – the first to depict the dodo and the earliest known Dutch artist to produce a floral still life
The details of this fine woodblock show there’s even more to a majestic print of a 19th-century courtesan than meets the eye – if you know how to look
The Musée du Quai Branly is displaying an immersive installation that honours the Punu mourners of Gabon
As the time-honoured tradition taps into our desire for spring, we dig into four seasonal subjects
Plus: V&A and British Museum lend Asante regalia to Ghana for the first time | Temple to Ram inaugurated on site of Mughal-era mosque in Ayodhya
In the Hungarian artist’s first exhibition in the United States, the Art Institute of Chicago presents works of cameraless photography and a geometric sculpture
December 2024
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