Gold Icon The Chinese artist who brought ink painting to a new audience

A meditative painting by Qi Baishi demonstrates his modern approach to an ancient art form, explains Jeremy Zhang of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco

3 Feb 2025

Macron announces ‘new Renaissance’ for Louvre, and new home for Mona Lisa

Plus: Native American painter Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has died at the age of 85 | Dutch police name suspects in theft of Romanian gold

2 Feb 2025

American Photography

This major survey at the Rijksmuseum includes early daguerreotypes, post-war photography, adverts, postcards and more

31 Jan 2025

Hokusai | Monet

Monet was a keen collector of Japanese woodblock prints and held Hokusai in high esteem, as this show in Minneapolis attests

31 Jan 2025

Noah Davis

This exhibition at the Barbican shows that, before his untimely death in 2015, the painter captured a remarkable range of Black lives in America

31 Jan 2025

Turner: In Light and Shade

To mark the 200th anniversary of the artist’s birth, a suite of his landscape studies is paired with selected watercolours at the Whitworth

31 Jan 2025

Gold Icon The menacing visions of Jusepe de Ribera

Though clearly influenced by Caravaggio, the Spanish painter rendered saints and sinners in a ferocious style all of his own

31 Jan 2025

Macron to make announcement after leaks about Louvre’s dilapidated state

Plus: Artnet founder to retire after three decades | painter Jo Baer has died at the age of 95 | and insurers refuse pay out to owners of fake Basquiats

24 Jan 2025

Strange and Familiar Places

The Nelson-Atkins Museum presents recent photographic acquisitions that explore community and tradition in the United States

24 Jan 2025

Northern Lights

Artists from Canada and Scandinavia have long been drawn to the beauty of boreal forests, as this show at the Fondation Beyeler attests

24 Jan 2025

The World in Colors: Slovenian Painting 1848–1918

During Slovenia’s period of national emancipation artists absorbed influences from Western Europe while retaining a distinctive style

24 Jan 2025

Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism

From colourful landscapes to quasi-cubist works, Brazilian art in the mid 20th century was full of verve

24 Jan 2025

Parts of Louvre no longer fit for purpose, says director

The buildings are reaching ‘a worrying level of obsolescence’, writes Laurence des Cars to the French minister of culture, Rachida Dati

23 Jan 2025

Visionary film director David Lynch dies aged 78

Plus: Des Moines Art Center settles with land artist Mary Miss | Martina Droth is the new director of the Yale Center for British Art | Bonnie Brennan is the new CEO of Christies

19 Jan 2025

The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World

A chance to get up close with illuminated manuscripts and discover the often madcap ways in which medieval illustrators viewed foreign lands

17 Jan 2025

A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting

The Louvre celebrates its recent acquisition of a rediscovered work by the painter whom Vasari called the ‘first light’ of Renaissance art

17 Jan 2025

Gladiators of Britain

Gladiator fights took place on this scepter’d isle too, as an exhibition of archaeological finds at Dorset Museum attests

17 Jan 2025

From Odesa to Berlin: European Painting of the 16th to 19th century

Seventy-five artworks were transported to Berlin from Odesa when Ukraine was invaded by Russia – and they are now on display at the Gemäldegalerie

17 Jan 2025

Southern California devastated by wildfires, with blazes still not under control

Plus: Germany approves new binding arbitration tribunal for Nazi-looted art, and Texas police seize Sally Mann photos from Forth Worth exhibition

12 Jan 2025

Jake Grewal: Under the Same Sky

A huge triptych seascape, mounted on a curved structure at Studio Voltaire, is the star of the show at the artist’s second major solo exhibition

11 Jan 2025

Suzanne Valadon

The first major survey of the French artist in more than half a century highlights her fleshy nudes and her friendships with the titans of Impressionism

10 Jan 2025

Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery

The dream-like paintings of Chicago’s ‘queen of the bohemian artists’ are celebrated in Pittsburgh

10 Jan 2025

Paper, Color, Line: European Master Drawings from the Wadsworth Atheneum

A selection of rarely seen works on paper by European artists from Vasari to Miró go on show in Hartford

10 Jan 2025

In the studio with… Jakkai Siributr

The Thai textile artist prefers silence in his studio so he can listen to his thoughts – which proves tricky when his dogs are hanging around

8 Jan 2025