Paul Poiret: Fashion is a Feast

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs draws on its considerable holdings to demonstrate why the couturier was known as ‘Le magnifique’

20 Jun 2025

Kiefer/Van Gogh

Van Gogh’s compositional style and intensity of vision were a formative influence on Anselm Kiefer, as this show at the Royal Academy makes clear

20 Jun 2025

Cézanne at Jas de Bouffan

The Post-Impressionist’s home in Aix-en-Provence is the subject of this exhibition at the Musée Granet

20 Jun 2025

Amy Sillman: Alternate Side (Permutations #1–32)

The artist transforms the ground-floor of Dia Bridgehampton with prints and hand-painted designs that blend figuration and abstraction

20 Jun 2025

Four things to see: Celestial observation

As the Royal Observatory in Greenwich celebrates its 350th anniversary, we look at four artworks that embody our age-old fascination with the heavens

20 Jun 2025

Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery director resigns after pressure from Trump

Plus: Plus: French duo convicted of faking 18th-century furniture, and ZERO Group artist Günther Uecker has died at the age of 95

15 Jun 2025

Four things to see: The expressive body

Painters have long distorted the human body to convey the anguish, confusion and melancholy that can lie beneath the skin

13 Jun 2025

In the studio with… Helene Appel

The artist works in near silence on her hyperreal paintings in her Berlin studio, which she keeps as empty as possible

13 Jun 2025

Vija Celmins

The Fondation Beyeler presents paintings, sculptures and hyper-realistic drawings by the Latvian American artist

13 Jun 2025

Vermeer’s Love Letters

At the Frick, three enigmatic works by the Old Master depict women of status and their maids

13 Jun 2025

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025

The public and Royal Academicians alike can submit work to the world’s longest-running open exhibition

13 Jun 2025

Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting

A survey at the National Portrait Gallery in London explores the artist’s bracingly conceptual approach to painting

13 Jun 2025

Whitney Museum suspends Independent Study Program after cancelled Gaza event

Plus: UK cultural institutions defend corporate sponsors, Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery director still in post after Trump’s firing by social media

8 Jun 2025

Edward Burra – Ithell Colquhoun

Tate Britain’s pairing of two very different painters reveals that the artists have more in common than is usually thought

6 Jun 2025

Wolfgang Tillmans

The Pompidou’s last show before it closes for five years is a wide-ranging retrospective of the photographer’s work

6 Jun 2025

Patterns of Luxury: Islamic Textiles, 11th–17th Centuries

The Saint Louis Art Museum presents textiles from or inspired by the Islamic world feature in a free exhibition

6 Jun 2025

The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism

This dazzling exhibition at the Barberini brings together some 100 works to demonstrate the variety of the Impressionist master’s art

6 Jun 2025

Acquisitions of the month: May 2025

Chardin’s luscious still life of fruit and Guercino’s commanding King David are among last month’s most significant museum acquisitions

6 Jun 2025

Four things to see: Oceans

To celebrate World Oceans Day, we dive into four artworks that celebrate the blue planet’s beauty, biodiversity and bottomless capacity for artistic inspiration

6 Jun 2025

Gold Icon How Jenny Saville turns paint into flesh

In her depictions of the human form, the artist pushes paint to its limits, explains Sarah Howgate of the National Portrait Gallery in London

2 Jun 2025

Venice Biennale to follow Koyo Kouoh’s vision

Plus: lost Mayan city discovered in Guatemala, and investment company set to buy Artnet and take it private

1 Jun 2025

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