In the decades after the Second World War, female artists chafed at the strictures of abstraction and began expressing their gender through their work
Plus: Mick Moon (1937–2024), and a round-up of the week’s most important museum appointments
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
An exhibition of the late ceramicist’s creations features only 11 works, but open-minded viewers will find plenty to delight in
The Lebanese artist’s new installation cleverly undermines the utopian ambitions of the architecture that surrounds it
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 artist layers a multitude of marks to create palimpsestic paintings and prints, but the results are far from purely abstract
An aww-inspiring exhibition explores adorability through the ages, and suggests it can be subversive as well as sweet
Why are there no dishes or treats traditionally associated with Valentine’s Day? The answer lies in shifts in farming and changing beliefs about food
As an exhibition at the Royal Academy shows, the Impressionists were never more immediate or intimate than in their drawings
The Reformation was a disaster for British architecture, argues an impressive new book – and the country’s approach to building design has never been the same
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
The streamer’s latest romcom, ‘Upgraded’, stretches artistic licence to its limits
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
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Caravaggio goes digital in Milan
A flawless digital copy of the artist’s Basket of Fruit raises the tricky question of how much authenticity should matter to museums