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
‘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
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
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
‘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
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





























