Rachel Ruysch says it with flowers

The Dutch artist’s floral paintings might look merely decorative but, as curator Bernd Ebert explains, they encapsulate a world of economic and scientific change in the early modern Netherlands

14 Dec 2024

Nature on Notice: Contemporary Art and Ecology

A chance to see how artists from Southern California and elsewhere are engaging with the climate emergency and ecological imbalance

13 Dec 2024

If Books Could Kill

Knowledge can be toxic, as this selection of killer manuscripts from the collection of the Walters Art Museum demonstrates

13 Dec 2024

Tissot, Women and Time

James Tissot’s gimlet-eyed depictions of women’s lives and fashions in 19th-century Paris and London are celebrated in Toronto

13 Dec 2024

Out of the Ordinary: Uncommon Materials, Marks, and Matrices

The Hammer Museum honours the artists who have poured blood, sweat, tears or other unusual substances into their work

13 Dec 2024

UK government won’t prevent Parthenon marbles being loaned to Greece

Plus: Jasleen Kaur wins this year’s Turner Prize; and Vancouver Art Gallery scraps plans for new Herzog & de Meuron-designed building

8 Dec 2024

In the studio with… Chrissie Hynde

The rockstar-turned-artist revels in her solitude and shuts the door to everyone except her dog when she’s in the studio – which is also her flat

5 Dec 2024

Slovak National Gallery’s department heads resign – with 177 staff threatening to follow

Plus: Rotterdam becomes first Dutch city to return colonial objects to Indonesia; and City of London votes to close Smithfield and Billingsgate markets for good

1 Dec 2024

Fresh Window: The Art of Display & Display of Art

Tinguely and Warhol worked as window-dressers; Dalí and Duchamp had dalliances with shop displays. Art and commerce go under the spotlight in Basel

29 Nov 2024

Semiha Berksoy: Singing in Full Colour

Turkey’s first female opera singer was also a painter who had close ties with Germany, and is now the subject of a survey in Berlin

29 Nov 2024

My Teddy Bear

The king of cuddly toys gets the red-carpet treatment at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris – but life hasn’t always been a picnic for our faux-furry friends

29 Nov 2024

Parmigianino: The Vision of Saint Jerome

After a ten-year conservation project, Parmigianino’s youthful masterpiece is ready to take part in the National Gallery’s bicentenary celebrations

29 Nov 2024

In the studio with… Stanley Donwood

Best known for his designs for Radiohead’s album covers, the artist enjoys the sea air but laments the fug of wood varnish in his Brighton studio

28 Nov 2024

Magritte painting sells for $121m – highest sum ever for a Surrealist work

Plus: UNESCO places 34 sites in Lebanon under ‘enhanced protection’; Berlin to cut its arts budget by €130m; and an armed heist at the Musée Cognacq-Jay

22 Nov 2024

Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory

The first exhibition in Australia dedicated to the abstract artist shows work from the 1990s to now

22 Nov 2024

Keeping Time: Clocks by Boulle

Ornate timepieces designed by the Sun King’s favourite craftsman go on show at the Wallace Collection

22 Nov 2024

Rachel Ruysch: Nature Into Art

The Dutch artist populated her floral still lifes with beetles, butterflies, classical sculptures and other unexpected details

22 Nov 2024

Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation

The Mexican artist drew on Surrealist and cubist influences as well as on the ancient and contemporary art of his home country

22 Nov 2024

Acquisitions of the month: October 2024

A massive bequest of Old Masters and a huge painting of a procession of giants are among the most important works to have entered museum collections recently

19 Nov 2024

Frank Auerbach has died at the age of 93

Plus: Italian police uncover a pan-European network of art forgers; and the British Museum receives a gift of Chinese ceramics worth £1bn

15 Nov 2024

The 80s: Photographing Britain

The decade is captured in all its turbulence in this searching show at Tate Britain

15 Nov 2024

Grand Dessert

Pudding has always been a sweet distraction, but as this exhibition in The Hague reveals, a little sugar brings a darker side to dessert

15 Nov 2024

Franz Kafka

The Czech writer’s work, life and cultural afterlife are the focus of this show at the Morgan Library & Museum

15 Nov 2024

Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious

A chance to get acquainted with the work of this long-neglected artist at Dulwich Picture Gallery

15 Nov 2024