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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Art & the Book
Artists’ books come in all shapes, sizes and unusual formats, as this exhibition at the Warburg Institute makes clear
Ancient India: living traditions
The British Museum presents artefacts of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism and explores how all three faiths changed over centuries
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
Lygia Clark: Retrospective
Though best known for her moveable sculptures and performance pieces, the Brazilian artist covered a lot of artistic ground
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
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
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
Caroline Walker: Mothering
At Hepworth Wakefield, the perceptive Scottish painter presents motherhood and other forms of care from a variety of angles
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
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
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
Why it’s time to stop rediscovering Eileen Gray