Grim up North in the 30s... This is Julian Trevelyan's The Potteries (1938, Museum & Art Swindon) in the Comrades in Art: Artists against Fascism exhibition at Towner Eastbourne. Read about this absorbing show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/06/east...

From the Francisco de Zurbarán exhibition at the National Gallery in London, a moment of intense spirituality: The Apparition of Saint Peter to Saint Peter Nolasco (1629, @museodelprado.es). Read about the show: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-.... Image ©Museo Nacional del Prado

Preparing for an SOS: This is Eric Ravilious's The Lifeboat (1938, Private collection) in the Comrades in Art: Artists against Fascism exhibition at Towner Eastbourne. Read about this absorbing seaside show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/06/east...

Now open at the Kunsthaus in Zurich: The Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi, master of silence, stillness and muted light. This is Resting (1905, @museeorsay.bsky.social, Paris). We saw the show earlier this year @museothyssen.org in Madrid: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/04/let-...

Quite honestly, Brighton and Hove Museums, we think the security staff you hire should be anything but casual.

Something surreal on the South Downs... Paul Nash's Event on the Downs (1934, UK Government Art Collection) is part of the fascinating Comrades in Art: Artists against Fascism exhibition at Towner Eastbourne: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/06/east...

It's your last chance to see the truly superb Anthony van Dyck exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/05/van-.... On only until July 19. This is a detail from Alessandro, Vincenzo and Francesco Maria Giustiniani Longo, c. 1626-27, National Gallery, London.

Francisco de Zurbarán's Saint Serapion, bound and tortured but still in spotless white robes. This 1628 painting from The Wadsworth (Hartford, Connecticut) is part of the stunning Zurbarán show at the National Gallery in London: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

Intense realism and deep religious faith come together in the superb Francisco de Zurbarán exhibition at the National Gallery in London: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-.... Pictured: Agnus Dei (A Lamb), 1635-40, @museodelprado.es, Madrid. Image © Museo Nacional del Prado

New exhibitions in Germany & Switzerland: Signac & Neo-Impressionism at Museum Barberini, Potsdam Courbet at Museum Folkwang, Essen Hammershøi at Kunsthaus Zurich Our July round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/06/new-... Pic: Maximilien Luce, The Port of Saint-Tropez (1893, Private collection)

Among new exhibitions this month: Vilhelm Hammershøi at the Kunsthaus in Zurich Ingres & Fashion at Musée Ingres Bourdelle in Montauban Our July preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/06/new-... Pic: Hammershøi's Interior with Woman at the Piano, Strandgade 30 (1901, Private collection).

New exhibitions in Germany in July: Paul Signac (plus van Rysselberghe, Luce, Seurat etc) at Museum Barberini in Potsdam Gustave Courbet at Museum Folkwang in Essen These & more in our preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/06/new-... Pic: Signac, A Sunday, Opus 201 (1888-90, Private collection)

Comrades in Art at Towner Eastbourne, the story of artists against fascism in the 30s & 40s: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/06/east.... Don't miss, early on, the facsimile of Cliff Rowe's The Struggle between the Unemployed and the Police Forces (1933, Lviv National Art Gallery).

Death and destruction comes to south London; the painter Clive Branson wrote that "My whole being revolts against war." This is his Blitz: Plane Flying (1940, Tate) in the Artists against Fascism show at Towner Eastbourne. Read about it on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/06/east...

It's your last chance to get to the Städel in Frankfurt for Claude Monet on the Normandy Coast, which closes July 5. A terrific show - we saw it at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon late last year: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-.... Pictured: Monet's Etretat, mer agitée, 1883, MBA Lyon.

Satan goes to Cherbourg! The Devil in 19th-century art at the Musée Thomas Henry starts tomorrow: www.cherbourg.fr/culture-et-l...

Ah... so that's very similar to the hat worn by Princess Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate in her Self-Portrait (c. 1650-55, Private collection), which we saw in the women artists' show at the MSK in Ghent a few months ago: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/04/gone....

Eureka! Now open at Derby Museum & Art Gallery, it's the Joseph Wright show. Not big, but entry's free. We saw it at the National Gallery in London last year: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-me.... This is a detail from The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher's Stone (1771, reworked 1795)

You've only till June 21 to see the show @royalacademyarts.bsky.social in London that confirms Michaelina Wautier, recently rescued from obscurity, was among the very top rank of 17th-century painters: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/05/too-.... Pic: Self-Portrait, c. 1650, Private collection.

Babies and infants... notoriously difficult to paint. Not for Anthony van Dyck. This is Princesses Elizabeth and Anne (1637, @National Galleries of Scotland) in the glorious van Dyck exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa. Read about it here: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/05/van-...

Mary Ruthven looks rather pleased with herself. And why not? She's Lady van Dyck, married to Sir Anthony. This 1640 painting from @museodelprado.es is a highlight in the van Dyck show at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/05/van-.... (Image © Museo del Prado, Madrid)

British artists in new shows this month include Joseph Wright at Derby Museum, Cedric Morris at the Garden Museum & Anish Kapoor at the Hayward Gallery. Our June round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/05/new-... Pic: Wright's Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768, National Gallery

From the Anthony van Dyck exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale in Genova, this is Mrs Howard (c. 1638-39, Private collection, Antwerp) - or possibly not; the inscription was added later. She may be expecting... Read about this stunning show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/05/van-...

A detail from one of the most striking pictures in the Anthony van Dyck exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa: This is Alessandro, Vincenzo and Francesco Maria Giustiniani Longo, c. 1626-27, National Gallery, London. Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/05/van-...

Anthony van Dyck at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa: a superlative exhibition about a superlative painter. Read about the show on our blog at art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/05/van-.... This is Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria, 1632 or 1633, @muzeumumeniolomouc.czesky.online, Czech Republic.

Last chance to catch the German Impressionists at Museum Barberini in Potsdam, ending June 7. We saw the show at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden last year: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-.... Pictured: Eva Stort, View from the Window (Schöneberg), 1890, David Ragusa Collection.

Too bold to have been painted by a woman? Clearly not! The Triumph of Bacchus (c. 1655-59, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna) is the highlight of the Michaelina Wautier exhibition @royalacademyarts.bsky.social in London: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/05/too-....

The Michaelina Wautier exhibition @royalacademyarts.bsky.social in London shows stunning work by a painter long written out of art history: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/05/too-.... This is Smell from The Five Senses (1650, Rose-Marie and Eijk Van Otterloo Collection).

Last call for the free George Stubbs display at the National Gallery in London, which reaches the finish line on May 31: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/04/stub.... This is the star attraction: Scrub, a Bay Horse Belonging to the Marquess of Rockingham, about 1762, Private collection.

Last chance to rediscover the great work of dozens of 17th- & 18th-century Dutch and Flemish women artists at the MSK in Ghent: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/04/gone.... Closes May 31. Pictured: Clara Peeters, Still Life with Cheeses and Crayfish, c. 1612-21, Private collection.