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
Strange and Familiar Places
The Nelson-Atkins Museum presents recent photographic acquisitions that explore community and tradition in the United States
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
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
Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism
From colourful landscapes to quasi-cubist works, Brazilian art in the mid 20th century was full of verve
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
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
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
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
Gladiators of Britain
Gladiator fights took place on this scepter’d isle too, as an exhibition of archaeological finds at Dorset Museum attests
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
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
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
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
Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery
The dream-like paintings of Chicago’s ‘queen of the bohemian artists’ are celebrated in Pittsburgh
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
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
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
Acquisitions of the month: November 2024
A panel by Fra Angelico and a video work acquired using cryptocurrency are among the most significant artworks to enter public collections recently
How to be buried in style in ancient China
What can a bronze Han dynasty horse tell us about status anxiety and the afterlife? Ching-Ling Wang of the Rijksmuseum talks of grave matters
UK signs cultural deals with Saudi Arabia
Plus: France signs lucrative culture deals with Saudi Arabia and Sotheby’s cuts more than 100 staff around the world
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
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
If Books Could Kill
Knowledge can be toxic, as this selection of killer manuscripts from the collection of the Walters Art Museum demonstrates
‘He wasn’t edgy. He was honest’ – on the genius of David Lynch