Visionary film director David Lynch dies aged 78
Plus: Des Moines Art Center settles with land artist Mary Miss | Martina Droth is the new director of the Yale Center for British Art | Bonnie Brennan is the new CEO of Christies
The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World
A chance to get up close with illuminated manuscripts and discover the often madcap ways in which medieval illustrators viewed foreign lands
A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting
The Louvre celebrates its recent acquisition of a rediscovered work by the painter whom Vasari called the ‘first light’ of Renaissance art
Gladiators of Britain
Gladiator fights took place on this scepter’d isle too, as an exhibition of archaeological finds at Dorset Museum attests
From Odesa to Berlin: European Painting of the 16th to 19th century
Seventy-five artworks were transported to Berlin from Odesa when Ukraine was invaded by Russia – and they are now on display at the Gemäldegalerie
Southern California devastated by wildfires, with blazes still not under control
Plus: Germany approves new binding arbitration tribunal for Nazi-looted art, and Texas police seize Sally Mann photos from Forth Worth exhibition
Jake Grewal: Under the Same Sky
A huge triptych seascape, mounted on a curved structure at Studio Voltaire, is the star of the show at the artist’s second major solo exhibition
Suzanne Valadon
The first major survey of the French artist in more than half a century highlights her fleshy nudes and her friendships with the titans of Impressionism
Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery
The dream-like paintings of Chicago’s ‘queen of the bohemian artists’ are celebrated in Pittsburgh
Paper, Color, Line: European Master Drawings from the Wadsworth Atheneum
A selection of rarely seen works on paper by European artists from Vasari to Miró go on show in Hartford
In the studio with… Jakkai Siributr
The Thai textile artist prefers silence in his studio so he can listen to his thoughts – which proves tricky when his dogs are hanging around
The menacing visions of Jusepe de Ribera
Though clearly influenced by Caravaggio, the Spanish painter rendered saints and sinners in a ferocious style all of his own
Acquisitions of the month: November 2024
A panel by Fra Angelico and a video work acquired using cryptocurrency are among the most significant artworks to enter public collections recently
How to be buried in style in ancient China
What can a bronze Han dynasty horse tell us about status anxiety and the afterlife? Ching-Ling Wang of the Rijksmuseum talks of grave matters
UK signs cultural deals with Saudi Arabia
Plus: France signs lucrative culture deals with Saudi Arabia and Sotheby’s cuts more than 100 staff around the world
Rachel Ruysch says it with flowers
The Dutch artist’s floral paintings might look merely decorative but, as curator Bernd Ebert explains, they encapsulate a world of economic and scientific change in the early modern Netherlands
Nature on Notice: Contemporary Art and Ecology
A chance to see how artists from Southern California and elsewhere are engaging with the climate emergency and ecological imbalance
If Books Could Kill
Knowledge can be toxic, as this selection of killer manuscripts from the collection of the Walters Art Museum demonstrates
Tissot, Women and Time
James Tissot’s gimlet-eyed depictions of women’s lives and fashions in 19th-century Paris and London are celebrated in Toronto
Out of the Ordinary: Uncommon Materials, Marks, and Matrices
The Hammer Museum honours the artists who have poured blood, sweat, tears or other unusual substances into their work
UK government won’t prevent Parthenon marbles being loaned to Greece
Plus: Jasleen Kaur wins this year’s Turner Prize; and Vancouver Art Gallery scraps plans for new Herzog & de Meuron-designed building
In the studio with… Chrissie Hynde
The rockstar-turned-artist revels in her solitude and shuts the door to everyone except her dog when she’s in the studio – which is also her flat
Slovak National Gallery’s department heads resign – with 177 staff threatening to follow
Plus: Rotterdam becomes first Dutch city to return colonial objects to Indonesia; and City of London votes to close Smithfield and Billingsgate markets for good
Fresh Window: The Art of Display & Display of Art
Tinguely and Warhol worked as window-dressers; Dalí and Duchamp had dalliances with shop displays. Art and commerce go under the spotlight in Basel
‘He wasn’t edgy. He was honest’ – on the genius of David Lynch