In praise of the late-career artists, Joan Semmel and Caroline Coon among them, who keep on painting their own bodies
The late Hungarian film-maker’s epic studies of apocalyptic gloom have never seemed more ravishing or more timely
Demand for the best paintings of the city shows no sign of sinking, but some artists have a more buoyant market than others
While the architect’s approach to restoring France’s medieval buildings remains controversial, his many and varied talents are still utterly awe-inspiring
An exhibition by the Shanghai- and Hong Kong-based artist BAISHUI invites us to contemplate how water’s many forms reflect aspects of our own existence
Plus: Staff at the Louvre have staged the ninth strike in a month; and museums across Minnesota closed on 23 January to protest against ICE’s presence in the city
With Carr set to star in a new TV show about his search for the ideal Scottish castle, Rakewell wonders – does he prefer neoclassical or the Scots Baronial style?
The painter’s enigmatic scene has inspired poems by Auden, William Carlos Williams and many others
The film-maker’s attempt to preserve his memories on CD-ROM has been rendered obsolete by advances in technology. Is the book version of Immemory an adequate replacement?
The Bard Graduate Center in New York celebrates the many talents of 19th-century France’s most prodigious architect
Portraits, landscapes and lively scenes of bathers from the painter’s late period go on show at the Fondation Beyeler
The Courtauld Gallery presents an alternative history of British landscape painting in the 18th and 19th centuries
Dive headlong into an under-appreciated aspect of the artist’s oeuvre at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark
The fine art fair’s continued success lies in its dedication to high-quality art rather than glitz
Plus: the 120-year-old California College of the Arts will close in 2027; and the Colombian painter and sculptor Beatriz González has died at the age of 93
The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston explores how the Mexican artist became a pop-culture phenomenon and influenced generations of artists around the world
The Legion of Honor in San Francisco explores how the Veneto region rivalled Florence and Rome as an artistic hub during the Renaissance
The Centre Pompidou-Metz presents works from across the sculptor’s career, from terracotta dancers to imposing large-scale ‘environments’
The Cleveland Museum of Art puts on a remarkable display of work produced in the Himalayan foothills between the 17th and 19th centuries
Exploring the history of the period through objects reveals the extent to which art underwent a revolution
The artist’s first retrospective in Paris finds her making connections between humans and the material world in unsettling and inventive ways
When the sculptor was announced for the US Pavilion at Venice, many in the art world declared their unfamiliarity with his work, doubts about the selection process and incredulity that abstract art could speak to the current moment
A photo of the star at the Art Institute of Chicago whets Rakewell’s appetite for her upcoming turn in Sondheim’s musical about Seurat’s most famous painting
Once the jewel of a 17th-century collection in Rome, this playful painting is reunited with old friends – or suggestions of them at least
