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Rembrandt – Hoogstraten: Colour and Illusion

Works by Rembrandt and his student Samuel van Hoogstraten are hung alongside each other in Vienna to demonstrate their similarities and differences

4 Oct 2024

Marina Apollonio: Beyond the Circle

The Italian artist’s bold experiments with geometric shapes are the subject of a comprehensive survey at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice

4 Oct 2024

At the Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s striking scene is the centrepiece of this show at the Minneapolis Institute of Art about Paris nightlife in the 19th century

4 Oct 2024

Plans revived for Centre Pompidou satellite in New Jersey

Plus: climate activists acquitted in Manchester, Hammer Museum appoints Zoë Ryan as its new director, and researchers find 7th-century throne room in Peru

4 Oct 2024

Four things to see: Women poets

To mark 50 years since the death of the poet Anne Sexton, we look at four artworks that demonstrate how women poets have long been a source of inspiration for artists

4 Oct 2024

Gold Icon Where are all the young collectors?

The art world is changing fast, but fostering a new generation of young collectors remains a challenge for the market to overcome

4 Oct 2024

In the studio with… Pauline Curnier Jardin

When working in her suntrap of a studio in Rome, the artist enjoys people-watching, listening to jazz and admiring an antique manhole cover made of travertine

3 Oct 2024

Baroque painting from Naples still provides plenty of thrills

Amid a narrowing market for Old Masters, paintings from 17th-century Naples are still holding their own

Gold Icon The Mughal emperors who forged a new artistic tradition

At its peak, the Mughal empire brought together scholars and artists of different languages and faiths to create art fit for kings

30 Sep 2024

Gold Icon The Warburg Institute makes its mysteries more public

The learned institution has always been important to art historians, but a major new refurbishment will give it a higher profile

30 Sep 2024

Gold Icon The dealer who launched Picasso

Berthe Weill was as devoted to young artists as she was to the cause of modern art – and her efforts are now receiving belated recognition

30 Sep 2024

Gold Icon Crafting value in Venice

The Homo Faber art fair featured a bounty of contemporary crafts, but were the finer details in danger of getting lost with so much on display?

30 Sep 2024

Gold Icon When the Cold War gave Scotland the chills

An exhibition of photographs, posters and protest objects shows the absurd side of the Cold War as well as the terror

30 Sep 2024

Gold Icon The many faces of Mary Magdalene

From penitent saint to salacious sinner, the biblical figure has worn a number of different guises in art through the ages

30 Sep 2024

Gold Icon Raising a glass to Campari’s photographic archive

Scenes of rowdy bars and tipsy revellers in the 20th century show a world that is both alien and comfortingly familiar

30 Sep 2024

Gold Icon The dangerous beauty of Waterhouse’s nymphs

Sarah Moss returns to a Pre-Raphaelite painting that made a lasting impression on her when she was a teenager

30 Sep 2024

Winter is coming, so why not bid for your very own piece of Game of Thrones?

Now is your chance to bid for Jon Snow’s sword, Jaime Lannister’s golden hand, or even the head of a direwolf to stave off the darkness that lies ahead

29 Sep 2024

Climate activists throw soup at Van Gogh paintings after jailing of fellow protestors

Plus: Unesco describes ‘unprecedented’ threat to Sudan’s cultural heritage, and Volodymyr Zelensky calls for ‘the decolonisation of Ukrainian art’

29 Sep 2024

Is Labour’s arts policy a case of warm words, no cold hard cash?

The UK culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, spoke of the importance of the arts at Labour Party Conference, but the sector needs more than good vibes

27 Sep 2024

The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998

What was on the mind of Indian artists between the Emergency declared by Indira Gandhi in 1975 and the secret nuclear tests of 1998? The Barbican presents some clues

27 Sep 2024

Rising Signs: The Medieval Science of Astrology

The Getty shows that European rulers wanting to start a war or send an embassy had the movements of the sun, moon and the stars to reckon with as well

27 Sep 2024

Gold Icon Italian art is the star of the show in Florence this month

Modern Italian artists rub shoulders with Old Masters including Titian and Bronzino at the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato in Florence (BIAF)

27 Sep 2024

Four things to see: Tourism

On World Tourism Day, it seems a perfect time to revisit the ways in which artists have depicted global travel over the last two centuries

27 Sep 2024

How Van Gogh invented the art of the future

The National Gallery has pulled off a seemingly impossible feat – to allow us to experience the intensity of the artist’s vision as if for the first time

26 Sep 2024