Design and Disability

The V&A tells the story of how disabled, deaf and neurodivergent people have shaped and inspired modern design over the last 80 years

30 May 2025

Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger: Emancipation from Rodin

In Berlin, the Alte Nationalgalerie’s restaging of a 1905 exhibition in Paris shows how both artists were developing their own sculptural languages

30 May 2025

Face to Face: 19th-century Austrian portrait painting

Salzburg’s DomQuartier presents portraits by painters who were forced to get more creative after the advent of photography

30 May 2025

Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues

The artist pairs her paintings of eerily abstracted faces and bodies with archaeological objects from the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens

30 May 2025

Four things to see: Myths and legends

To commemorate the anniversary of the death of Peter Paul Rubens, who frequently depicted mythological characters, we look at four artworks that bring classical tales to life

30 May 2025

Acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado dies at 81

Plus: chair of Creative Australia resigns in Venice Biennale controversy | directors of Jewish museum in Washington condemn murder of Israeli embassy staff outside building

25 May 2025

Gold Icon The curious career of Jan van Kessel

In his teeming depiction of animals about to enter the ark, Jan van Kessel put an inventive spin on an original by his grandfather, Jan Brueghel the Elder

24 May 2025

Venice and the Ottoman Empire

The Frist Museum considers the mercantile republic as a melting pot, where foreign fashions, customs and food were readily absorbed

23 May 2025

Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron

The Morgan Library shows that, although she didn’t own a camera until she was 48, Cameron nudged photography into the realm of fine art

23 May 2025

Paolo Veronese

The Prado’s survey of one of the great painters of 16th-century Venice also considers his influences – and the artists he influenced in turn

23 May 2025

Pop Brazil: avant-garde and new figuration, 1960–70

Even as the military dictatorship repressed civil society in the 1960s, artists resisted the pressure to conform

23 May 2025

In the studio with… Tara Donovan

The sculptor prefers not to have visitors in her sunlit studio in Brooklyn, where she tests materials and rereads books that have influenced her

22 May 2025

Koyo Kouoh, curator of next Venice Biennale, has died at 57

Plus: UK government puts export bar on Botticelli painting | Lindokuhle Sobekwa wins Deutsche Börse photography prize

18 May 2025

Art & the Book

Artists’ books come in all shapes, sizes and unusual formats, as this exhibition at the Warburg Institute makes clear

16 May 2025

Ancient India: living traditions

The British Museum presents artefacts of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism and explores how all three faiths changed over centuries

16 May 2025

The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond

The biophysicist Arthur Solomon built up a formidable art collection that is now on display in Cambridge

16 May 2025

Lygia Clark: Retrospective

Though best known for her moveable sculptures and performance pieces, the Brazilian artist covered a lot of artistic ground

16 May 2025

Sotheby’s postpones sale of gems linked to the Buddha, after Indian pressure

Helen Frankenthaler and Andy Warhol Foundations cover cancelled NEA grants, and Kress Foundation president and former Walters Museum director, Julia Alexander, has died at the age of 57

9 May 2025

A Passion for China: The Adolphe Thiers Collection

The first president of the Third Republic was a divisive figure, but there’s no arguing with his taste in chinoiserie

9 May 2025

Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers

The artist’s abstract works were informed not only by mystical thinking but also by the shapes and colours of the natural world

9 May 2025

Caroline Walker: Mothering

At Hepworth Wakefield, the perceptive Scottish painter presents motherhood and other forms of care from a variety of angles

9 May 2025

London Craft Week 2025

Visitors can see work by more than 1,000 craftspeople from around the world – and get stuck in themselves at workshops and open studios

9 May 2025

Korean art scans new horizons in London

Musical displays, immersive experiences and a series of talks celebrate the country’s rich cultural heritage and appetite for innovation

8 May 2025

Acquisitions of the month: April 2025

Maarten van Heemskerck’s Entombment of Christ and a triptych by Joan Mitchell are among the most significant museum acquisitions of last month

7 May 2025