Exhibitions

Two Renoir exhibitions at Musée d’Orsay explore the joy of human connection

A double bill at the Paris museum demonstrates how the artist went beyond “pretty little paintings”

Tefaf Maastricht: exhibitions to see beyond the fair

From an exhibition curated by a painting to a boat load of phalluses

New public art biennial to take over Dallas’s urban greenbelt park

The open-air exhibition KTX Biennial, curated by SculptureCenter’s Jovanna Venegas, will bring works by international contemporary artists to the city’s busy 3.5-mile pedestrian and cycling corridor

Texas university's sudden cancellation of exhibition with works critical of Ice sparks censorship row

The removal of Victor Quiñonez’s immigration-themed exhibition at the University of North Texas without explanation has intensified concerns about artistic freedom at public universities in the state

São Paulo pop-up exhibition spotlights spherical home by architect Eduardo Longo

The fifth edition of “Aberto”, an annual exhibition melding Modernist architecture and contemporary art, offers the public a rare opportunity to visit Longo’s Casa Bola

Late British artist Lynn Chadwick to be focus of major retrospective at UK’s Houghton Hall

The artist’s sculpture “Back to Venice” (1988) will also be offered at Christie’s London’s in March

Ancient Egyptian form of ‘Tipp-Ex’ identified on papyrus at UK’s Fitzwilliam Museum

A white fluid on a 3,300-year-old papyrus was used to make the figure of a jackal slimmer, researchers have found

The Big Review | The Woman Question 1550-2025 ★★★★½

Works spanning centuries have been brought together in an exhibition highlighting how hard-fought women’s rights are under constant threat

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

Blockbuster show on ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II opens in London

Organised in collaboration with the Egyptian government, the exhibition comes to London in the latest stage of a world tour

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