Three Donatello fragments, a portrait by Rembrandt’s star pupil and a sculpture of a well-travelled elephant were among this year’s highlights
Jon Pountney’s photographs of the South Wales Valleys are no lament for a lost industrial past, but a vivid record of an area that keeps adapting to and even defying a changing reality
The Bank of England’s announcement that nature will be the theme of the next set of bank notes has led to some wild-eyed responses
Plus: EU threatens to withdraw Venice Biennale funding if Russia participates, and Italy pays €30m for a Caravaggio
The painter was one of the most successful portraitists in Europe and should be regarded as the father of the English school of painting. So why has his reputation suffered over the years?
The father of English portraiture was a dazzling success on the continent first, and this exhibition of his work in Genoa is the largest of its kind in years
Renoir’s critical reputation has fallen behind some of the other Impressionists in recent years. The Musée d’Orsay asks us to look again
These six years set the course for the artist’s career – and for post-war American art, this exhibition at Princeton suggests
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston marks the arrival of spring with a display that explores how the natural world has inspired artists
In ‘Pompei: Beyond the Clouds’, the film-maker turns living in the shadow of Vesuvius into pure cinema
To mark World Sleep Day, we look at four sculptures, lithographs and engravings that explore the many faces of somnolence
The artist’s friends and peers are widely celebrated, so her relative obscurity is a puzzle. It makes a show at London’s Raven Row all the more welcome
From Charlton Heston writhing on a scaffold in the Sistine Chapel to Kirk Douglas’s dead ringer for Van Gogh, films about painters were prestige studio fare
At Loewe’s Fall/Winter 2026 show, a soft-toy menagerie by the German artist Cosima von Bonin added a playful touch
In Jewish tradition, Torah scrolls are often embellished with ornaments. Rarely are they as elaborate as this jewel-encrusted crown, a highlight of the V&A’s reopened Gilbert Galleries
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The painter’s society portraits come to life in a well-chosen survey at the Frick
Plus: UNESCO World Heritage sites are under threat as the conflict in the Middle East widens; and the Rijksmuseum has a new Rembrandt
The news that the singer bought a portrait of himself at a Christmas market in Belfast last year without being recognised couldn’t be more on brand
This year’s highlights include a striking portrait of Saint Jerome by Orazio Gentilschi and a new painting by Caroline Walker made especially for the fair
From sensitive portraits by Peter Hujar to Old Master paintings depicting beauty and ugliness, there’s so much to see within a day’s trip from the Maastricht fair
Working together for more than 30 years, this quartet of artists’ idea of a studio is an experimental as their art
The longest-running art biennial in the United States takes the temperature of the contemporary scene
Whistlejacket isn’t the only rearing horse Stubbs painted. A rarely seen bay is coming to keep him company at the National Gallery in London this spring
