José da Silva

José da Silva is the Exhibitions Editor of The Art Newspaper

Three to see: London

From the subterranean delights of East London to Sargent’s lesser-known paintings

Is Dalí the daddy?

Artist’s body to be exhumed after Spanish woman claims he was her biological father

Rare drawing from Brian Sewell’s collection to feature in Wyndham Lewis survey

Retrospective at IWM North in Manchester is the largest-ever exhibition of the controversial avant-garde artist's work

Three to see: Basel

From the Beyeler's first photography show to Delvoye’s excrement-making machines

Must-see shows in Basel this week

From shit machines to abstract paintings made by one very artistic robot

Grayson Perry draws inspiration from Brexit—and The Art Newspaper—for Serpentine show

One recent work responds directly to our annual attendance figures survey

Liverpool celebrates The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album with a little help from artist friends

Among the 13 new commissions, Judy Chicago has designed a giant psychedelic mural while Jeremy Deller has produced a series of billboards and a secret performance

First major retrospective of Marina Abramovic in Europe opens in Denmark

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in in Humlebæk will stage reperformances of some of her most famous pieces

Manchester gets first comprehensive retrospective of Wyndham Lewis in 40 years

The founder of the Vorticist movement has often been under-appreciated or misunderstood, which the Imperial War Museum North seeks to rectify

Tate Modern continues to champion female artists with shows on Anni Albers and Joan Jonas in 2018

Major show on figurative painting at Tate Britain will feature Freud and Bacon while Tate Liverpool will host Egon Schiele survey

Photo London satellite shows: Peckham 24 leads the way as the UK capital gets snappy

Images of Cairo shot on iPhone, surreal domestic interiors and unearthed pictures of 1980s London among top photography shows opening this week

Cosa? UK artist John Smith uses translation app in Venice show

Video will feature alongside key works from 1970-80s in artist's first solo exhibition in Italy

Tomás Saraceno collaborates with 7,000 spiders to make largest-ever exhibited web

Argentinian artist’s solo show in Buenos Aires also includes a sound piece played by an arachnid

London’s Flat Time House reopens after Italian foundation steps in to save it

Closure last year of former home and studio of conceptual artist John Latham was expected to be permanent

Artists who made it a family affair: Madrid, Frankfurt, and Philadelphia explore the creative exploits of collaborative families

Kobro and Strzeminski, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Pierre-Auguste and Jean Renoir's relationships are each subject to in-depth review

Tate Modern opens first 'live' show with mist, plants and a rave

Series of exhibitions dedicated to live art will be annual with BMW's support

Replica of statue destroyed by Isis and whipped cream to top London’s Fourth Plinth

Michael Rakowitz and Heather Phillipson announced as winners of the next two sculptural commissions for Trafalgar Square

The rise and fall of the American dream: Printmaking in America on show at the British Museum

200 works are now on show which explore hot topics from the 1960s onward, from Vietnam to the AIDs crisis

How an art work could literally save lives in Syria

Danish collective SUPERFLEX's hospital equipment installation will be shipped to war-torn country after exhibition

Tate Britain banks on David Hockney retrospective to pull in the crowds

Wide-ranging show includes 150 works by the California-based artist, spanning 60 years

Tate Britain banks on David Hockney retrospective to pull in the crowds

More than 150 works will be on display, from those executed early in his career to some whose paint is still wet