Exhibitions

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Just a number: drawing by 11-year-old Joseph Wright of Derby goes on view for the first time

The modest pencil drawing is part of the exhibition ‘Life on Paper’ at Derby Museum and Art Gallery

Gagosian's spring show skips and rhymes through De Kooning's career

The ambitious New York exhibition picks out visual motifs that can be seen throughout the artist's practice

‘Art is an important way of depicting these atrocities’: London show shines a light on sexual violence in conflict

The Imperial War Museum exhibition, which has been six years in the making, is the first major UK museum show to explore the under-reported topic

Seeing God in nature: US National Gallery exhibition celebrates art from the dawn of European natural history

Works by the Flemish artists Joris Hoefnagel and Jan van Kessel, among others, charm audiences with their enchanting depictions of nature’s “little beasts”

Boston Public Art Triennial launches with more than a dozen projects across the city

Works at the inaugural triennial entreat locals and visitors alike to imagine new ways of understanding our world

John Singer Sargent exhibition in London shines a light on the lives of the ‘dollar princesses’

The show at Kenwood House features 18 portraits of American heiresses who came over to the UK to marry into aristocracy—with many of them going on to make a considerable mark on British society

Elsa James’s exhibition in my home county, Essex, is a potent rejection of the erasure of history

The show gives voice to sidelined Black figures and is a “direct and unapologetic” means of confronting Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade

In a new exhibition, the Getty Centre uncovers the mysterious world of medieval codes

The Los Angeles show aims to make the emojis of the past more accessible

Artist couple open north London not-for-profit in former Zabludowicz gallery

Husband-and-wife artist duo Philip and Charlotte Colbert have opened Camden Arts Projects, which kicks off its programme with a show of works by Martin Creed

Kinetic energy: events across Europe and the US celebrate Jean Tinguely anniversary

100 years since the artist’s birth, there are exhibitions, commissions—and even an actual birthday party

Adam Lindemann opens exhibition of 19th-century African sculpture and contemporary Black abstraction

The dealer brings together five Urhobo sculptures for the first time in the US in an exhibition at his private residence on Manhattan's Upper East Side

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Comment | The greatest failure of PST Art: its successes are not travelling

As the Getty wraps up its third edition of this initiative, it is time to address a persistent problem

Folk is having a revival—in the art world too

The Neo Ancients festival in the small Gloucestershire town of Stroud featured artists whose works have a more "pastoral" approach towards art production

Bauhaus thread weaves through expansive textile show at MoMA

Around 150 woven works by artists around the globe tell the story of abstraction through a new, craftier lens

The Big Review | The reopening and rehang of the Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery, London ★★★★★

The two-year remodelling of the Sainsbury Wing as the National Gallery's main entrance has allowed for new restorations and fresh curation of the museum's unrivalled collection of early Renaissance pictures. The effect is revelatory

Could 17th-century Italy provide a useful model for today’s challenging art market?

An exhibition in New York spotlights an intriguing episode in trade history , in which an influx of foreign artists to Rome prompted everyone from barbers to lawyers in the city to develop side hustles as art dealers

The best museum shows to see during Tefaf New York 2025

An exhibition that is solid gold, Sargent’s scandalous time in Paris and the Morgan Library and Museum’s promised gifts are some of the highlights taking place during the fair

Whitney Museum of American Art invites visitors to take in the river view

Mary Heilmann’s fifth-floor installation creates a calm space of refuge amidst the frenetic pace of Frieze week

New York’s Hotel Chelsea honors the late artist Teruko Yokoi with new restaurant

The artist’s former residence opens a restaurant named Teruko this month, featuring her works

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Ten top shows to see in New York during Frieze week

Our pick of exhibitions includes Rashid Johnson's biggest ever show, Amy Sherald at the Whitney and hypermasculinity in Nigerian culture

On the Met Gala’s Cy Gavin-designed blue carpet, art was front and centre

Rashid Johnson and Amy Sherald—both currently having solo shows at New York museums—joined more artists and celebrities to celebrate “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”

The Big Review | Caravaggio 2025 at Palazzo Barberini, Rome ★★★

Bringing together 24 compelling paintings by the Baroque master is a fine achievement, but this show does not live up to its lofty promise of rediscovering Caravaggio’s art in a new light

The nonconformist: Ben Shahn is honoured in a ‘homecoming’ show at New York's Jewish Museum

The US artist and activist tackled the social issues of his time, from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War

In a new exhibition, the British Museum traces the shared roots of three ancient Indian religions

Devotional art reveals how Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism have more in common than is widely believed

With a cut and a caress: Italian exhibition explores Rebecca Horn’s legacy

Show at Castello di Rivoli includes installations, sculptures, videos, films and drawings by the artist, who died last September

Immediately after the Second World War, how did six exhibitions attempt to make sense of the atrocities?

In a new show, The Deutsches Historisches Museum explores how institutions in cities across Europe reacted to Nazi horrors

Face to face: at Pallant House Gallery, meet the artists who paint, draw and sculpt other artists

Opening on 17 May, “Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists” explores the tradition of portraiture among artistic peers, from the Bloomsbury Group to the British Black Arts Movement

Left at the altar: Luc Tuymans's paintings to replace Tintoretto works at Venetian church

The Belgian artist’s works will hang in place of “The Last Supper” and “The People of Israel in the Desert” while the masterpieces undergo restoration