Exhibitions

New exhibition explores how Max Beckmann's hard-edged signature style first emerged in his drawing

Show at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt also demonstrates how the German artist's practice was altered radically by his experiences during the First World War

Sixteen must-see exhibitions in South Florida during Miami Art Week

From the late greats Richard Hunt and Joyce Pensato at the Institute of Contemporary Art to Hiba Schahbaz at Moca North Miami, Jack Pierson at the Bass and a look back at the futurism of World’s Fairs at the Wolfsonian

A vocabulary of touch: exhibition of sculpture by blind and partially blind artists opens in Leeds

The Henry Moore Institute's new show, ‘Beyond the Visual’, unpacks the value of the haptic and how perception involves all the senses

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‘We need to rethink’: new exhibition revisits an Israeli conceptual art project, 53 years on

The show complicates and expands on the legacy of the 1972 exhibition “Metzer-Meiser”, which explored the seamline between the titular Israeli and Arab communities

The Big Review | Fra Angelico at Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, Florence ★★★★★

This two-venue show in Florence makes clear that the “angelic” early Renaissance artist was as lucid and inventive a storyteller as he was dazzling

‘We are living through an extremely traumatic moment’: Adrián Villar Rojas's new sculpture explores ‘existential anxieties’

Commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary and the Aspen Art Museum, the work will be on display at the watchmaker's Swiss headquarters until spring 2026 then will travel to Colorado

Frenemies or rivals? Tate Britain show explores Turner and Constable's turbulent relationship

Celebrating the 250th anniversaries of the emblematic British artists, the exhibition will tell the story of their interlinked careers, their work and its reception

Sculptor Alma Allen officially selected to represent US at 2026 Venice Biennale

The state department’s announcement, delayed by the US government shutdown, says Allen’s presentation will further Donald Trump’s “focus on showcasing American excellence”

Queer sexuality in Islamic art explored in Norway exhibition

'Deviant Ornaments' at Oslo's Nasjonalmuseet brings together more than 40 objects from the past 1,000 years alongside contemporary art

Penn Museum opens Native North America Gallery after two-year overhaul

The Philadelphia museum, located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, has completely rethought the 2,000-sq.-ft gallery in collaboration with eight Indigenous curators

‘This is how art history is built’: unprecedented Mumbai exhibition unites works of Indian and Arab Modernism

The Barjeel collection in Sharjah has loaned works to the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation for the first-ever show to examine 20th-century art of both regions

William Nicholson, often overlooked in favour of his more famous son, is coming out of the shadows

Head of a family of artists including the more famous Ben, a Pallant House Gallery exhibition shows this father is ripe for reassessment

Live conservation reveals hidden surprises of unfinished Spencer painting

“Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta” is the centre piece of a new exhibition at the Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, where the artist spent most of his life

An eerie Renaissance masterpiece, fresh from a four-year restoration process, goes on show in Berlin

Ambiguity and subtlety have returned to the Carpaccio work, following the removal of grime and old varnish

In his own words: Antwerp museum uses AI to recreate Magritte's voice

A 1938 lecture given by the notoriously tight-lipped Surrealist can be heard as part of the exhibition “Magritte. La ligne de vie”

Climate report from Getty’s PST Art programme urges cultural organisations to confront exhibitions’ impacts

The report is a significant step toward addressing the environmental sustainability of art world activities

Fast-rising Montana art organisation to take over century-old theatre

Bozeman-based Tinworks Art will start programming at the historic Rialto Theater with screenings of Matthew Barney’s neo-Western film “Redoubt”

Sculptor Alma Allen reportedly selected to represent US at 2026 Venice Biennale

After plans for a Robert Lazzarini presentation collapsed, another sculptor has reportedly been picked for the US Pavilion

Art sector could collectively cut over five million tonnes of CO₂ a year, report suggests

Gallery Climate Coalition’s inaugural Stocktake Report shows the difference the art sector can make when it comes to the climate—but the next five years are crucial, says chair Frances Morris

‘The Hay Wain’ to go on show in Constable's home county for the first time

The famed painting will travel to Suffolk next year as part of an exhibition marking 250 years since the artist's birth

Children curate exhibition of Clyfford Still works inspired by their reservation

A hundred students from the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation contributed to Clyfford Still Museum’s new show

Jenny Saville to present unseen Venice-inspired works to coincide with 61st Biennale

An exhibition featuring 30 works by the record-breaking UK artist will open in the lagoon city in March 2026

The British artist David Shrigley wants £1m for piles of old rope

The artist, whose practice is underpinned by humour, has a poke at the art market with his new London exhibition

Rediscovering Roger Fry, the overlooked Bloomsbury artist who helped bring Cézanne and Van Gogh to the world

A new exhibition at Charleston in Firle while display the extraordinary paintings of an art historian who changed public tastes

Torkwase Dyson and Alia Farid among artists commissioned for next Carnegie International

More than a dozen participating artists have been announced for the 2026 edition of the longest running recurring exhibition in North America

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Tania Willard wins Canada’s top contemporary art prize

The British Columbia-based artist, who is a member of the Secwépemc First Nation, described the experience of taking home the C$100,000 Sobey Art Award as “a waking dream”

Tehching Hsieh: ‘I didn’t try to be a superman, my work is not about heroism’

The Taiwan-born artist is best known for a series of year-long performances which subjected his mind and body to near-torturous conditions. As a major retrospective of his work opens in the US, he discusses these remarkable pieces

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Comment | As the US’s 250th anniversary approaches, museums must keep pushing the American story forward

The Phillips Collection was founded amid a president’s calls for a return to “normalcy”, and today the museum is addressing a city and a country grappling with a similar dynamic

Film-maker Wes Anderson to recreate Joseph Cornell’s New York studio in Paris this Christmas

The Gagosian show will feature a dozen of Cornell’s most recognisable works