31 October 2025 A 3D model of the 30 St Mary Axe building, known to most Londoners as the Gherkin. Photograph: Alicia Taylor In the cavernous exhibition space of Foster + Partners’ Sydney studios the hum of conversation softens as visitors gather around a meticulously detailed scale model of 30 St Mary Axe the London skyscraper known colloquially as the Gherkin, its spiralling form captured at one-hundredth its real size. But this isn’t merely a model of a building: it is a t

29 October 2025 A guest views Vincent van Gogh’s Women Picking Olives (1889, middle), another painting from his olive trees series, at the Met in New York. Photograph: Bjanka Kadic/Alamy The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has been sued by the heirs of a Jewish couple who allege that the museum knowingly accepted and later transferred ownership of a Olive Picking (1889) by Vincent van Gogh that they claim was looted by the Nazis in the 1930s. According to the lawsuit f

27 October 2025 An extraordinary sound system … Peter Doig’s exhibition House of Music at Serpentine Gallery, London. Photograph: Guy Bell/Shutterstock In their studios around the world, artists are hitting play and allowing music to become an unseen collaborator, notes, rhythms and melodies weaving themselves into their creative process. According to interviews conducted by The Guardian, creatives like Chris Ofili, Lindsey Mendick, Ragnar Kjartansson and others shared how sp

24 October 2025 Still Life with Guitar, a 1919 gouache and pencil work valued at about €600,000, has been found by police after disappearing in October. Photograph: Spanish National Police/AFP/Getty Images Tiny but iconic, a 1919 painting by Pablo Picasso titled Still Life with Guitar valued at around €600,000 was recovered this week after vanishing en route to an exhibition in southern Spain, concluding a case that authorities say never involved a grand heist but rather a ba

22 October 2025 On the morning of October 19, 2025, thieves executed one of the most audacious museum heists in modern memory when they stole eight priceless pieces of French crown jewellery from the Galerie d’Apollon at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The raid played out almost as a cinematic sequence. Disguised as construction workers, the perpetrators arrived on a basket lift at a first-floor window over the Seine-facing façade of the museum, around half an hour after opening.

20 October 2025 Jamien, 1982. Photograph: Coreen Simpson Celebrated photographer and jewelry designer Coreen Simpson has finally received the art-world recognition her five-decade career deserves with the publication of Coreen Simpson: A Monograph, part of the prestigious Vision & Justice series by Aperture. In this richly designed volume, readers are invited into Simpson’s vibrant practice an oeuvre that spans black-and-white portraiture, early hip-hop documentation, experim

18 October 2025 Landscape, Autumnal Effect, ca 1885–86. Photograph: Collection of David Lachenmann At the heart of New York’s fall museum calendar, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Renoir Drawings, a landmark exhibition bringing together more than 100 seldom-seen works on paper by Pierre‑Auguste Renoir and revealing the depth of an artist best known for his glowing painted canvases. Curated by museum director Colin B. Bailey, the show is the first in over a century dedica

13 October 2025 ‘Feeling his way’ By the Sea, by Denton Welch. Photograph: Denton Welch. Courtesy John Swarbrooke Fine Art In a recent reflection, Novelist Alan Hollinghurst revisits the short, luminous life of painter and writer Denton Welch, celebrating his fierce creativity, his heightened sensitivity, and the sense that from tragedy emerged a distinctive artistic voice that continues to resonate. Welch was born in 1915 in Shanghai to an English father and American mother,

08 October 2025 ‘I sat still!’ … Bachardy, left, and Isherwood in Hockney’s 1968 work. Photograph: CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2025 At 91...

06 October 2025 After nearly three centuries in relative obscurity, two monumental biblical murals by the 18th-century artist William...

05 October 2025 René Magritte with his work The Barbarian (Le Barbare) Photograph: René Magritte/Latrobe Regional Gallery A rare and...

03 October 2025 Adam Cvijanovic’s mural in St Patrick’s Cathedral. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP In the soaring, ivy-shadowed interior of...

1 October 2025 Naeem Mohaiemen’s Through a Mirror Darkly installation at London’s Albany House. Photograph: Thierry Bal/PR IMAGE In...

29 September 2025 After decades of being dismissed as a derivative work, a painting long labeled “after Caravaggio” has now been...

25 September 2025 In Bristol a new exhibition titled Prince of the Rocks: JMW Turner and the Avon Gorge is unveiling a collection of...

21 September 2025 Manchester artists take pride in their reclaimed St George’s flag. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian In...

19 September 2025 The rediscovered painting Bust of a Woman with a Flowery Hat (Dora Maar), by Pablo Picasso, after it was unveiled at...

13 September 2025 On September 13, 2025, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will open its doors to young artists and their families for a...

10 September 2025 An Allegory with Venus by Giovanni Tiepolo at the National Gallery. Successive directors have argued that the 1900...

6 September 2025 The painting by Italian artist Ghislandi in the living room in Mar del Plata. Photograph: Robles Casas & Campos An...