The best art exhibitions to see in 2025
From 14th-century Siena to female modernists, the year’s most exciting exhibitions chart an evolving Western tradition.
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Tirzah Garwood’s English satires
The artist’s worlds are full of humour – but something else moves beneath.
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The Renaissance in drawing
Two exhibitions reveal how, for the great Renaissance artists, drawing was both a tool for making paintings and a form…
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Hollywood voyeurism at the Marilyn Monroe exhibition
A collection of the star’s possessions tries to make celebrity worship a feminist pursuit.
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The paradoxes of Frank Auerbach
The painter, who has died at the age of 93, was defined by his surfaces, but unconcerned with exteriors.
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Why painting (still) matters
Reports of the art form’s death have been exaggerated – it retains the power to make new worlds.
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Van Gogh in the yellow house
The artist moved to Arles in 1888 full of optimism. The National Gallery’s major new exhibition, “Poets and Lovers”, selects…
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Banksy’s phoney street art
There’s more artistic value to be found among London’s grassroots graffiti scene.
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