In the studio with… Helene Appel

The artist works in near silence on her hyperreal paintings in her Berlin studio, which she keeps as empty as possible

13 Jun 2025

Vija Celmins

The Fondation Beyeler presents paintings, sculptures and hyper-realistic drawings by the Latvian American artist

13 Jun 2025

Vermeer’s Love Letters

At the Frick, three enigmatic paintings by the Old Master capture the nuances of the relationship between women of status and their maids

13 Jun 2025

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025

The public and Royal Academicians alike can submit work to the world’s longest-running open exhibition

13 Jun 2025

Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting

A survey at the National Portrait Gallery in London explores the artist’s bracingly conceptual approach to painting

13 Jun 2025

Whitney Museum suspends Independent Study Program after cancelled Gaza event

Plus: UK cultural institutions defend corporate sponsors, Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery director still in post after Trump’s firing by social media

8 Jun 2025

Edward Burra – Ithell Colquhoun

Tate Britain’s pairing of two very different painters reveals that the artists have more in common than is usually thought

6 Jun 2025

Wolfgang Tillmans

The Pompidou’s last show before it closes for five years is a wide-ranging retrospective of the photographer’s work

6 Jun 2025

Patterns of Luxury: Islamic Textiles, 11th–17th Centuries

The Saint Louis Art Museum presents textiles from or inspired by the Islamic world feature in a free exhibition

6 Jun 2025

The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism

This dazzling exhibition at the Barberini brings together some 100 works to demonstrate the variety of the Impressionist master’s art

6 Jun 2025

Acquisitions of the month: May 2025

Chardin’s luscious still life of fruit and Guercino’s commanding King David are among last month’s most significant museum acquisitions

6 Jun 2025

Four things to see: Oceans

To celebrate World Oceans Day, we dive into four artworks that celebrate the blue planet’s beauty, biodiversity and bottomless capacity for artistic inspiration

6 Jun 2025

Gold Icon How Jenny Saville turns paint into flesh

In her depictions of the human form, the artist pushes paint to its limits, explains Sarah Howgate of the National Portrait Gallery in London

2 Jun 2025

Venice Biennale to follow Koyo Kouoh’s vision

Plus: lost Mayan city discovered in Guatemala, and investment company set to buy Artnet and take it private

1 Jun 2025

Design and Disability

The V&A tells the story of how disabled, deaf and neurodivergent people have shaped and inspired modern design over the last 80 years

30 May 2025

Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger: Emancipation from Rodin

In Berlin, the Alte Nationalgalerie’s restaging of a 1905 exhibition in Paris shows how both artists were developing their own sculptural languages

30 May 2025

Face to Face: 19th-century Austrian portrait painting

Salzburg’s DomQuartier presents portraits by painters who were forced to get more creative after the advent of photography

30 May 2025

Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues

The artist pairs her paintings of eerily abstracted faces and bodies with archaeological objects from the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens

30 May 2025

Four things to see: Myths and legends

To commemorate the anniversary of the death of Peter Paul Rubens, who frequently depicted mythological characters, we look at four artworks that bring classical tales to life

30 May 2025

Acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado dies at 81

Plus: chair of Creative Australia resigns in Venice Biennale controversy | directors of Jewish museum in Washington condemn murder of Israeli embassy staff outside building

25 May 2025

Gold Icon The curious career of Jan van Kessel

In his teeming depiction of animals about to enter the ark, Jan van Kessel put an inventive spin on an original by his grandfather, Jan Brueghel the Elder

24 May 2025

Venice and the Ottoman Empire

The Frist Museum considers the mercantile republic as a melting pot, where foreign fashions, customs and food were readily absorbed

23 May 2025

Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron

The Morgan Library shows that, although she didn’t own a camera until she was 48, Cameron nudged photography into the realm of fine art

23 May 2025

Paolo Veronese

The Prado’s survey of one of the great painters of 16th-century Venice also considers his influences – and the artists he influenced in turn

23 May 2025