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
