Saint Francis of Assisi

The National Gallery considers how Franciscan teachings have inspired artists from the Renaissance to the present

27 Apr 2023
Portrait of Keith Coventry. Courtesy De Brock Gallery, Knokke

In the studio with… Keith Coventry

The artist starts the day by watering the plants on his balcony from where he can watch people eating at a neighbouring restaurant

27 Apr 2023

Baroque in Florence

The Bozar in Brussels shows that in Florence, the style was considerably more refined than in Rome

21 Apr 2023

Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me

The film-maker’s lyrical explorations of race and cultural history go on show at Tate Britain

21 Apr 2023

A Century of Dining Out: The American Story in Menus, 1841–1941

The Grolier Club serves up a feast of menus that tell us much about changing social mores

21 Apr 2023

Printed in 1085: The Chinese Buddhist Canon from the Song Dynasty

The Huntington presents a rare opportunity to view the oldest printed book in its collection

21 Apr 2023

In the studio with… Maki Na Kamura

The Japanese painter works to the sounds of birds chirping and receives regular visits from figures from the past

17 Apr 2023

Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith: Memory Map

The Whitney puts on the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date

14 Apr 2023
David Garrick with his wife Eva-Maria. (detail; c. 1757–64), William Hogarth.

Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians

The Queen’s Gallery in London puts on a courtly fashion show

14 Apr 2023

Moï Ver

The photographer documented Jewish communities throughout Eastern Europe from the late 1920s to the start of Second World War

14 Apr 2023
The Ten Largest, Group IV, No. 3, Youth, Hilma af Klint. Courtesy the Hilma af Klint Foundation

Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life

The Tate considers how both artists used abstract painting as a means of understanding the natural (and supernatural) world

14 Apr 2023

Anxiety and Hope in Japanese Art

More than 250 works at the Met testify to millennia-old concerns about death and the afterlife

6 Apr 2023

Giacometti—Dalí: Gardens of Dreams

The Kunsthaus Zürich explores the two artists’ fleeting but formative friendship

6 Apr 2023

All Consuming: Art and the Essence of Food

The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena lends new meaning to the trope of the ‘starving artist’

6 Apr 2023

Sarah Bernhardt: And the Woman Created the Star

The Petit Palais pays homage to France’s most famous thespian

6 Apr 2023
Engraved gold ruby goblet (c. 1685–90), Johann Kunckel, engraving att. to Gottfried Spiller. Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Acquisitions of the Month: March 2023

A rare 17th-century gold ruby glass goblet and original designs by Augustus Pugin are among this month’s highlights

4 Apr 2023

14th Gwangju Biennale

This year’s event brings together 79 artists from South East Asia and further afield

31 Mar 2023
Paolo and Francesca da Rimini (1855), Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Rossettis

Tate Britain presents a Pre-Raphaelite family affair in the form of paintings, designs and poetry

31 Mar 2023

Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter

The subject of a famous portrait by Velázquez was a talented painter in his own right

31 Mar 2023

Going through Hell: The Divine Dante

The NGA in Washington, D.C. explores how artists through the ages have drawn on the ’Commedia‘ for inspiration

31 Mar 2023

Manet / Degas

While the two painters had little in common, this show at the Musée d’Orsay shows how they spurred one another to new heights

24 Mar 2023

Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid

The Met explores the British artist’s ongoing interest in still lifes, mortality and mirroring

24 Mar 2023

Dosso Dossi: The Frieze of Aeneas

The artist’s surviving Virgilian canvases are reunited at the Galleria Borghese in Rome

24 Mar 2023

Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney

Our most loyal four-legged friends are the focus of this exhibition at the Wallace Collection in London

24 Mar 2023