Exhibitions

Venice Biennale 2026: all the national pavilions, artists and curators so far

The latest announcements of the key players representing their countries at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia

Smells like teen spirit: inside the world’s first scent-lending library

The Seattle-based artist Donna Lipowitz provides a popular service that no one nose they need

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‘There’s a bead connection to every place’: Wendy Red Star on exploring the real and symbolic currency of beads

The Apsáalooke artist’s new exhibition at Sargent’s Daughters in New York takes the form of a simulated trading floor for glass beads

The year of André Malraux: France salutes its pioneering intellectual with exhibitions and more

The author, art theorist and first culture minister of France, who died 50 years ago, is celebrated with more than 130 events, exhibitions and books this year

Venice Biennale details revealed, Beatriz González and Tracey Emin in London—podcast

Ben Luke speaks to Jane Morris about the 2026 Biennale artists and framework, takes a tour of the late González's show at the Barbican. Plus, a conversation about a long-hidden Emin work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Alexander Morrison

Tracey Emin: 'Racist behaviour is dividing our country'

As her landmark Tate Modern exhibition opens, the artist discusses the rise of Reform UK and the British Museum's "terrible colonial past"

Monumental commissions and pioneering women artists take centre stage at Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026

“In Interludes and Transitions” includes more than 25 commissions and works by Samia Halaby, Etel Adnan, Pacita Abad and Kamala Ibrahim Ishag

Comment | Time for a rethink: women artists were never meant to merely be canon fodder

Exhibitions pairing Munch with Paula Modersohn-Becker and Maria Lassnig provide opportunities to subvert the established order

Venice exhibition of US artist Hernan Bas will tackle issue of mass tourism

“The Visitors” includes more than 30 new paintings of youths who represent “cliches of the contemporary tourist”

Rose Wylie: ‘It’s very, very fragile where a painting ends. All the time it sits on a precarious edge’

After beginning her career in the 1950s, and then taking 25 years out to raise a family, the artist finally hit her stride in the 2000s. Now, she is the first female painter to have a show in the main galleries of the Royal Academy of Arts in London

UK exhibition celebrates the artisans throughout history who went to war

Fitzwilliam Museum’s new show "War Craft" examines art made on or near the front lines, often from materials found on the battlefield

12 must-see exhibitions in and around Los Angeles during Frieze

From the latest additions to Judith Baca's "Great Wall of Los Angeles" at Jeffrey Deitch and "Monuments" at Moca and the Brick, to the Julia Stoschek Foundation's epic pop-up show of video art and medieval creation stories at the Getty

South Africa pavilion will be empty at 2026 Venice Biennale, culture ministry says

The announcement comes after a court dismissed Gabrielle Goliath’s attempt to have her project reinstated—a ruling that has been met with anger by members of South Africa’s art world

Art collective Cooking Sections’ food projects are helping save the planet

Art duo are delivering actionable ecological change through sustainable food production and consumption schemes

Artist Gabrielle Goliath’s attempt to reinstate cancelled Venice Biennale pavilion dismissed by court

The artist and the curator Ingrid Masondo will be challenging the decision handed down by a judge from South Africa’s high court

Show on fantastical neoclassicist Johan Tobias Sergel heads to Stockholm and New York

Little known outside his native Sweden, the artist was a master of marble, but also created grotesque and erotic drawings

Creativity through adversity: Kansas exhibition explores Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani's life and work

For the Sacramento-born artist, who faced wartime incarceration for his Japanese ancestry as well as homelessness, art was a way to survive crises

David Hockney to create ten metre-long window installation for Turner Contemporary

The work, depicting a sunrise in Normandy, is part of the Margate gallery's 15th anniversary celebrations

The Big Review | Monuments, The Geffen Contemporary at Moca and The Brick, Los Angeles ★★★★★

By not going down more obvious routes, the exhibition, which places nine Confederate monuments in dialogue with 19 artists, avoids preachiness

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Tracey Emin: ‘I’ve done more in my last five years than in the whole rest of my life’

Tate Modern is hosting the largest retrospective to date of one of the UK’s biggest artists, who has never shrunk away from laying bare the most intimate and even traumatic details of her personal life

‘Good people are being compelled to censor themselves’: exhibition of Black artists reinterpreting the US flag opens without key Dread Scott work

The artist was approached about including his seminal work in an exhibition at the University of Maryland’s Driskell Center, but ultimately it was not featured; he and the curators disagree on the reasons why

This year's Carnegie International will feature 61 artists, including Jasleen Kaur and Li Yi-Fan

The latest iteration of the recurring exhibition boasts more specially commissioned works than ever before

London show highlights how drawing was at the heart of Lucian Freud’s practice

The National Portrait Gallery is exploring a less familiar aspect of the artist’s work through his archive and recently acquired etchings

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‘I'm going to miss the quiet life we had’: Greenlander artist Inuuteq Storch on Trump, travel and his ambitions to build a photography museum

As his latest exhibition opens at the Hasselblad Center, Storch discusses his love and hope for his home country

World Cup art initiatives go for goal in Mexico City

Ambitious cultural programme will accompany the 2026 Fifa World Cup tournament

Art Basel Qatar, Dürer portrait debate, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Edvard Munch—podcast

Ben Luke talks to art market editor Kabir Jhala about the inaugural fair in Doha, explores the debate surrounding a painting of Dürer’s father, and we hear about the synergies between two 20th-century painters

Hosted by Ben Luke and Alexander Morrison. Produced by David Clack

Gwen John—the quiet ‘seer of strange beauties’—gets major show in Wales

The exhibition, dedicated to the painter who sold few works during her lifetime and was largely overlooked in favour of her brother, will also travel to Scotland and tour the US

Saudi Arabia looks to its Modern art history as the art world eyes up the Gulf

With the inaugural Art Basel opening in Qatar, and with Frieze in Abu Dhabi later this year, the Kingdom is looking to the past with its exhibitions and auctions

Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Lydia Ourahmane among artists confirmed for new Qatar quadrennial

The headline exhibition Unruly Waters will chart Qatar’s “past and present role as a geopolitical hub”

Vancouver Art Gallery show celebrates Emily Carr's affinity with nature

The Canadian painter is the subject of a major exhibition of her landscapes, inspired by British Columbia