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You’ve got mail: pathbreaking exhibition on Van Gogh’s postman opens shortly in Boston, then heads to Amsterdam

While painting Joseph Roulin and his wife and children, Vincent wrote in great excitement: “I’ve done the portraits of an entire family”

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‘A time travelling conversation about life and art’: the botanical collages of Mary Delany and Georgie Hopton

The exhibition opening at Bath's No.1 Royal Crescent, which pairs works by the 18th-century collagist and the contemporary artist, is part of a series of shows attempting to draw new audiences to the gallery

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Roses, oil and beaver secretion: why French museums are appealing to visitors’ sense of smell

In an attempt to create a more immersive exhibition experience, art institutions in France have been employing some unusual scents

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New York gallery for Visionary art offers an inner journey in time for the vernal equinox

The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in upstate New York is unveiling the second contemporary art exhibition in its Entheon museum at ‘an auspicious time of year’, according to its founders

As Tate marks Turner’s 250th birthday, his visions of a wild world still elevate, soothe and harrow the soul

A year-long event bonanza will mark the birthday of perhaps the greatest British artist ever

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Gaza’s Eltiqa collective holds show in exile in Dubai

As a retrospective at Jameel Arts Centre gathers together two decades of work from around the globe, a co-founder describes his personal flight to safety

Exhibitions to see during Tefaf Maastricht 2025

Discover the spiritual side of Andy Warhol, a musical rendition of a historic Egyptian uprising, and the uncanny universe of a reluctant Surrealist

Rare 15th-century manuscript is star of exhibition at Château de Chantilly in France

Richly coloured and decorated work is going on show after conservation, partly funded by the Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund

Gillian Wearing and Michael Landy’s joint exhibition shows the artistic power of love

The artist couple’s show in Naples, Italy, also taps into the city’s religious heritage

An architect’s dream: Refik Anadol launches AI tribute to Frank Gehry at Guggenheim Bilbao

The media artist presents “Living Architecture: Gehry”, generated from a new large architecture model containing visual data from the LA-based architect’s 65 years in practice

Revelation over last surviving portrait of England’s ‘nine day queen’ was made 20 years ago, art historian says

English Heritage has published new research into the picture, supporting the fact it may depict Lady Jane Grey, but its sitter was also proposed in a 2007 exhibition

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Louise Giovanelli: ‘Because of the curtains and tinsel, people think I grew up with working men’s clubs’

The UK painter’s first major museum show, at the Hepworth Wakefield, offers recognition of a talent whose ambiguous works can shift between the humdrum of the ordinary and the ecstasy of revelation

At home with Goya, Titian and Velázquez: Joana Vasconcelos makes a flamboyant impression in Madrid’s Liria Palace

The Portuguese artist mounts the first contemporary exhibition to be installed alongside the Duke of Alba’s fabled art collection

Censorship and Australia’s Venice Biennale pavilion, a controversial AI auction, and Elizabeth Catlett in Washington—podcast

What might the fallout be after Creative Australia’s unpopular decision to cancel Khaled Sabsabi’s project? Plus, AI art beyond this week’s open letter and a chat about Catlett’s terracotta sculpture ‘Tired’

Guts, verve, beauty and splendour: International Women’s Day exhibitions, events and auctions

‘Women in Revolt!’ heads to Manchester, Tracey Emin makes the Independent Women 2025 Influence List and EmpowerHER ‘25 creates a space where “women's voices in art could truly be seen and heard”

‘When will they ever learn?’: Anselm Kiefer reveals Amsterdam installation with anti-war message at its heart

‘Sag mir wo die Blumen sind’, the centrepiece of a new two-part exhibition, is titled after a 1950s anti-war song by the folk singer Pete Seeger

The Kiefer-Van Gogh exhibition comes to Amsterdam and London, with fresh works inspired by the German artist’s pilgrimage 60 years ago

At the last minute hundreds of Kiefer’s home-grown sunflower seeds stuck on a huge painting needed to be replaced after they had attracted insects

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'America gives me no shortage of subject matter': Vincent Valdez on making art that connects communities

The artist's first major museum survey, "Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream..." at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, tracks 20 years of his identity-driven photorealism

Anne Imhof’s largest US project to date is a Shakespearean ode of doom and optimism

The German artist’s new project at the Park Avenue Armory is a collaboration with the curator Klaus Biesenbach

How artists have used the ‘uncanny’ as a feminist strategy

The eerie and uncomfortable new show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC comes at a poignant moment for women in the US

Two UK exhibitions show there is no more keeping mum about art and motherhood

Shows in London and Dundee focus on work of women artists and their experience of becoming a parent

Art Museum of the Americas cancels shows of Black and LGBTQ+ artists amid Trump’s DEI crackdown

The Washington, DC institution had been due to open exhibitions about queer identity and the African diaspora in the Americas this month

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Semi-autonomous artists can offer society new means of working with AI

Artists have a history of giving cultural and social relevance to new technology. Recent exhibitions of artificial intelligence art and a sale at Christie's New York highlight new approaches to collective ownership and governance that are applicable to the wider community

Citing censorship, Pakistani artist Rabbya Naseer cancels show at Vienna museum

The artist's solo exhibition was due to open at the Belvedere 21 Museum of Contemporary Art last month

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s final curatorial project honours Indigenous community she championed for decades

A new exhibition at the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jersey opened just days after Smith’s death

The V&A’s Mughal exhibition traces the emergence of a ‘new art’

The show, which closes in May, highlights a golden age of pluralism under three monarchs from the house of Tamerlane

'It's like playing jazz': Carl Cheng reflects on his ecological investigations at the ICA in Philadelphia

The Post-Minimalist art outlaw is the subject of his first major museum survey

Israel Pavilion show that never opened in Venice will finally have its debut

Ruth Patir’s videos starring animated ancient sculptures include a protest scene filmed steps from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, where her show opens 11 March

Esteemed private collection of Roman marbles is starting its North American tour

Nearly 60 works from the Torlonia Collection, including striking depictions of animals and people, will feature in exhibitions in Chicago, Fort Worth and Montreal