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The Missing Picasso That Was Never Stolen: How a Forgotten Crate Solved a €600,000 Mystery
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
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Daring daytime jewel raid at the Louvre Museum reignites a century-long legacy of art thefts
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.
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Coreen Simpson’s lens chronicles Black life, style and self-expression in a new major monograph
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
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Exploring the unseen genius of Renoir’s drawings in a major New York exhibition
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
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Alan Hollinghurst reflects on the tragic brilliance of Denton Welch
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,
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David Hockney’s iconic portrait rekindles memories of love, art, and a bygone Californian salon
08 October 2025 ‘I sat still!’ … Bachardy, left, and Isherwood in Hockney’s 1968 work. Photograph: CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2025 At 91...
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William Hogarth’s Long-Hidden Murals at St Bartholomew’s Hospital Unveiled to the Public After Restoration
06 October 2025 After nearly three centuries in relative obscurity, two monumental biblical murals by the 18th-century artist William...
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Magritte Masterwork La Magie Noire Heads to Auction After 90 Years in One Family’s Care
05 October 2025 René Magritte with his work The Barbarian (Le Barbare) Photograph: René Magritte/Latrobe Regional Gallery A rare and...
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St Patrick’s Cathedral Unveils Monumental Mural Celebrating Immigrant Stories in New York
03 October 2025 Adam Cvijanovic’s mural in St Patrick’s Cathedral. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP In the soaring, ivy-shadowed interior of...
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Naeem Mohaiemen Illuminates Forgotten Histories Through His New Film on Kent State
1 October 2025 Naeem Mohaiemen’s Through a Mirror Darkly installation at London’s Albany House. Photograph: Thierry Bal/PR IMAGE In...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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