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First Look: ‘Gold and Ivory’ at Louvre-Lens

The curators introduce a new exhibition of medieval art from Paris and Tuscany

First Look: ‘Collecting Paradise’ at the Rubin

For centuries, the art of Kashmir was highly renowned, but most western visitors are unfamiliar with it today

19 May 2015

First Look: ‘Inca: Conquests of the Andes’ at the Dallas Museum of Art

Introducing the Incas, and the diverse, ever-changing art that their conquest of the Andes produced

14 May 2015

First Look: Modern art and television at the Jewish Museum

When people talk about the ‘avant-garde’, they don’t normally have television in mind

29 Apr 2015

First Look: Poussin and God at the Louvre

A sneak preview of a new exhibition dedicated to Poussin’s depictions of sacred and Christian themes

First Look: Rubens in Private

What better subject to show at Rubens’ family home than his family portraits?

31 Mar 2015

First Look: ‘Painting Paradise’ at The Queen’s Gallery

A new show explores the changing character of the garden and its enduring appeal for artists

16 Mar 2015

First Look: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit

In one remarkable year, Rivera arguably made his greatest mural cycle and Kahlo forged her own expressive style

9 Mar 2015

First Look: Henri de Fromantiou at the Bonnefantenmuseum

A new exhibition in Maastricht looks set to bring the 17th-century master back into the spotlight

4 Mar 2015

First Look: Leon Underwood at Pallant House Gallery

It is fascinating how influential figures can seem to ‘disappear’ from the canon of art history

27 Feb 2015

First Look: ‘Salt and Silver’ at Tate Britain

Tate celebrates the distinctive, experimental aesthetic of 19th-century salted paper prints

18 Feb 2015

First Look: ‘The Sultan’s World’ at BOZAR

How did Ottoman culture influence Western artists during the Renaissance?

16 Feb 2015

First Look: ‘Van Gogh to Rothko’ at Crystal Bridges Museum

Manuela Well-Off-Man introduces a travelling show of masterworks from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

14 Feb 2015

First Look: ‘Shatter Rupture Break’ at the Art Institute of Chicago

It wasn’t just the Cubists who responded to the 20th century’s upheavals

First Look: ‘Poetry of the Metropolis’ at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

The Affichistes used throwaway materials but their legacy endures

28 Jan 2015

First Look: ‘The Decorator and the Thief (…)’ at the NGCA

I’ve tried to stay away from what most people would expect from a show about craft

23 Jan 2015

First Look: ‘Self’ at Turner Contemporary

Van Dyck’s celebrated last self-portrait tours to Margate at the centre of a major exhibition

20 Jan 2015

First Look: ‘Unseen’ at the Courtauld Gallery

The Courtauld Gallery is opening a new space this year dedicated to the display of drawings

12 Jan 2015

First Look: ‘The Art and Craft of Elena Polenova’ at Watts Gallery

Polenova was leading figure from the Russian Arts and Crafts movement

14 Nov 2014

First Look: ‘Modern Times’ at the Rijksmuseum

The new wing of the new Rijksmuseum is playing host to a display of new photography

6 Nov 2014

First Look: El Greco in New York

New York’s masterpieces are reunited to mark the 400th anniversary of the artist’s death

1 Nov 2014

First Look: The City Lost and Found at the Art Institute of Chicago

How did artists develop new ways of depicting urban life in the 1960s and ’70s?

25 Oct 2014

First Look: ‘Sculptors’ Drawings’ at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

How important was drawing to the Renaissance sculptor?

21 Oct 2014