We round-up the biggest shows opening each month

Institutions are scrambling to identify whether their buildings contain the potentially dangerous material

The lives and work of Singaporean-British sculptor Kim Lim and the Chinese artist and poet Li Yuan-chia will be explored at the Hepworth Wakefield and Kettle’s Yard

Suzuko Yamada on reducing a bar down to its bare essentials, her vision for architecture and her favourite drinking spot in Tokyo.

From Old Master portraits and grainy photographs to sculptures on chairs and naked performances

Plus, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco gain a major collection of American art and the Rijksmuseum acquires recently restituted silver salt cellars

An exhibition at London's Dulwich Picture Gallery will look at the “varied and important place occupied by women” in the life and work of the Flemish Baroque master

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From regional galleries becoming “unsustainable” to brutal cuts to funding of museums, galleries and arts and humanities education, the sector is in an increasingly perilous state

The London institution is putting a five-acre garden development and climate science at the forefront of its educational programming

The museum plans to find a “pop-up” location by next year before reopening in a permanent venue in 2032

A survey show at the Art Institute of Chicago brings together the Spanish Mexican artist’s extraordinary paintings and reveals new insights about their creation

Curator Giovanni Carmine walks us through some of his favourites for this edition

Every museum visit produces $905 in social benefits per visitor, according to a study conducted at 11 art institutions

After a three-year closure and £41m redevelopment, the London institution aims to better acknowledge the UK’s history and diverse population

The Brooklyn Museum exhibition aims to “create a space for these conversations to happen” rather than “cancel” the artist

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An exhibition of the 16th-century Italian painter at the National Gallery of Ireland tells the story of her unique circumstances and reveals the results of a recently restored work

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

The number of new museums, opera houses and theatres in ambitious and cash-rich Asian and Middle Eastern countries outstrips those in Europe and the US

An ambitious exhibition at London’s Whitechapel Gallery will celebrate the female artists from around the world who, against the odds, helped redefine art in the post-war period

We take a look at the most exciting shows around the world this year

The best shows in London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, New York and Washington, DC

Extensive new research across 31 US museums reveals that works by female artists make up just 11% of acquisitions, while Black American artists of all genders account for only 6.3% of exhibitions

With a slew of institutions set to open by 2030, the country is putting itself on the global cultural map—but on its own terms

Plus, how long left of the good times in the New York auction world? And abstract Black figuration

On display from the airport to the desert, the public art commissions have been installed in time for the World Cup this month

The Italian artist's paintings and sculptures were studied ahead of an exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia

The National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum marked the return of the sculptures with a ceremony in Washington, DC

At this former mill you can learn about manufacturing history and make something new somewhere old