The V&A’s annual festive commission is a four-metre-tall kinetic sculpture by design duo Isabel + Helen
A spectacular baroque nativity scene featuring some 200 figures is now on show at the Art Institute of Chicago
A presepio scene by the sculptor Giuseppe Sanmartino is paired with a 20-foot-tree at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Museum of Saxon Folk Art in Dresden is exploring regional festive traditions – not least the elaborate shadow plays from the town of Sebnitz
The Polish artist who works with Elon Musk and takes her robot for walks believes in technology, but has other idols too
The artist painted countless variations of a white square, but repetitive strain was never really an issue
The retouching of Diana Cecil’s portrait has drawn comparisons with the enhancements of Kylie Jenner – but it says more about changing beauty standards
From a festive snapshot to a paper angel, we’ve picked four objects that make up the perfect Christmas day
The cathedral’s glittering 19th-century reliquaries are among the treasures that have taken up temporary residence at the Louvre
The Pogues frontman and the Romantic painter are forever linked by a classic album cover – and much more besides
Plus: Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023) | Dutch museum returns Scythian gold artefacts to Ukraine | and the rest of the week’s art news
After a week when the British prime minister has realised that Greece would quite like the Parthenon marbles back, it’s worth taking a longer view
A terracotta relief by Donatello and a vanishingly rare set of 16th-century silverware are among this month’s highlights
An exhibition at RIBA reveals how, in the 1960s, Architectural Review took a radical stand for planning that focused on people
Created by a Spanish missionary and Indigenous authors and artists in the 16th century, the Florentine Codex is an intellectual feat – and now available to all
The Japanese artist is the latest to take on the prestigious commission to design the vineyard's label, it was announced today
This exhibition drawn from the holdings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art features pieces by more than 70 female makers and designers
The National Gallery in London presents the first major exhibition to be dedicated to the often-overlooked artist
This exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, co-organised with the National Museum of Korea, presents 40 works dating from the 15th century to the present day
This exhibition at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich explores the notion of the glitch in the 20th and 21st centuries
Mediocre results for the November auctions in New York suggest that the auction-houses have put too many eggs in the same kind of basket
From snapshots of Martin Luther King Jr. to a mural commemorating the Peterloo massacre, we look at four objects that speak of the long struggle for civil rights
An open access publication celebrates glittering works from the 17th and 18th centuries
The lessons learned by the city’s painters in the 1500s brought about radical new forms of expression
