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AI Vindicates Hidden Caravaggio: The Lute Player Emerges From Copy Status
29 September 2025 After decades of being dismissed as a derivative work, a painting long labeled “after Caravaggio” has now been...
Sep 292 min read
Turner’s Early Gorge Paintings Reveal a Teenage Obsession With Bristol’s Cliffs
25 September 2025 In Bristol a new exhibition titled Prince of the Rocks: JMW Turner and the Avon Gorge is unveiling a collection of...
Sep 253 min read
Flags of Belonging: How Artists Are Reimagining English Identity
21 September 2025 Manchester artists take pride in their reclaimed St George’s flag. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian In...
Sep 213 min read
Picasso Portrait of Dora Maar Emerges After 80 Years
19 September 2025 The rediscovered painting Bust of a Woman with a Flowery Hat (Dora Maar), by Pablo Picasso, after it was unveiled at...
Sep 203 min read
Weaving Stories: MFAH’s “From India to the World” Family Workshop
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...
Sep 133 min read
By Lifting Its Ban on Post-1900 Art, the National Gallery Sparks a Historic Rift with Tate
10 September 2025 An Allegory with Venus by Giovanni Tiepolo at the National Gallery. Successive directors have argued that the 1900...
Sep 103 min read
A Painting Reappears, and with It History’s Echoes
6 September 2025 The painting by Italian artist Ghislandi in the living room in Mar del Plata. Photograph: Robles Casas & Campos An...
Sep 62 min read
The Lost Image of Love Behind Shakespeare’s Most Famous Lines
4 September 2025 Shakespeare’s friend Henry Wriothesley, 3rd earl of Southampton, was known for his androgynous beauty, vanity and love...
Sep 43 min read
Two Vermeers on the Wall Challenge Your Eyes and Your Judgment
1 September 2025 The Guitar Player, c.1675-1725, from the Philadelphia Museum of Art collection. Photograph: Philadelphia Museum of Art...
Sep 13 min read
From Soho’s Sweethearts to Shadows, Rediscovering the Two Roberts
31 August 2025 MacBryde and Colquhoun in London, 1951. Photograph: Baron/Getty Images On an August night in 1944, London waited nervously...
Aug 313 min read
A $15.4 Million Lifeline Rescues Regional NSW Galleries from Collapse
28 August 2025 The NSW government has announced $15.4m in arts funding. The Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery applied for $100,000 but was...
Aug 283 min read
Lost Nazi-Looted Masterpiece Vanishes After Reappearing in Argentina Real-Estate Listing
27 August 2025 Portrait of a Lady by Giuseppe Ghislandi belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a leading Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam....
Aug 272 min read
Lies, private jets and a missing $86 million: the spectacular rise and fall of Inigo Philbrick sketched anew
22 August 2025 Inigo Philbrick was interviewed for more than 14 hours for the BBC Two documentary. Photograph: BBC/Bamus (WAA)...
Aug 223 min read
Trump orders Smithsonian to swap hard truths for national cheer in sweeping “anti-woke” exhibit review
21 August 2025 A sign for The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden exhibition inside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American...
Aug 212 min read
Douglas Stuart credits Jenny Saville’s visceral paintings for igniting the spark that gave birth to Shuggie Bain and shaped his visual storytelling
17 August 2025 Body of work. Jenny Saville. Photograph: Tyler Mitchell Renowned novelist Douglas Stuart, best known for his Booker Prize...
Aug 173 min read
Chris Ofili’s 1997 masterpiece Blossom sets the art world alight as it prepares for its auction debut with a potential £1-1.5 million price tag
14 August 2025 Blossom: ‘One of the most exciting paintings I’ve worked with in a long time,’ said Tessa Lord of Christie’s. Photograph:...
Aug 142 min read
Rose Nolan embraces invisibility and analogue rhythms to invite viewers into a slower, more present mode of art and life
11 August 2025 Nolan’s To Keep Going Breathing Helps, 2016-17, on show at the MCA. Photograph: Anna Schwartz Gallery In the whitewashed...
Aug 113 min read
An exhibition in Paris resurrects five millennia of Gaza’s heritage amid the shadows of war
10 August 2025 One of the key pieces in the show is a small marble statue of a goddess, thought to be either Aphrodite or Hecate. In the...
Aug 103 min read
A Cadillac at Dusk Through Phil Stockbridge’s Lens
9 August 2025 Untitled, 2021, shot on iPhone 12 Pro Max. Photograph: Phil Stockbridge Daylight fading behind a Cadillac Fleetwood, a...
Aug 92 min read
Tjanpi Desert Weavers at 30: Indigenous Women in Central Australia Weave Culture into High Art
6 August 2025 Tjanpi Desert Weavers in Papulankutja with the Tjanpi Toyota that won top prize at the 2005 Natisaas. Photograph: Thisbe...
Aug 63 min read
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