Exhibitions

Comment | Reflecting on my father’s art and life on the occasion of his posthumous exhibition

As the late outsider artist Samuel Kahn’s first solo show opens in Virginia, his daughter reconsiders the impact of his work

Self-portraits, Surrealism and sanitary pads: what to expect from Tate Modern's Frida Kahlo show

The exhibition will explore the late Mexican artist’s impact on women artists across Mexico, the Americas and Europe

Five shows to see during Singapore Art Week

From a survey of Basoeki Abdullah's painterly diplomacy to an immersive exhibition of maritime-themed works

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Singapore Art Week puts women artists from the region to the fore

A new book and a major exhibition are highlighting contemporary female artists from Singapore, the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries

From shopping malls to housing estates, Singapore Biennale integrates art into the city’s urban fabric

Works that address resistance, ecology and colonialism are part of the year’s vibrant exhibition titled "Pure Intention"

Ten essential works of art to see in Graubünden, home of the Engadin valley

World leaders descend on Davos this week—but the wider region has much more to offer than the World Economic Forum

New London exhibition uses architecture to explore the experiences of Iran’s American diaspora

Arash Nassiri’s film installation at London’s Chisenhale Gallery uses an abandoned “Persian Palace” to reflect on the lives of Iranians who have settled in LA and elsewhere in the West

San Francisco museum rejects permanent space in favour of site-specific exhibitions

For the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco’s nomadic debut, the artists Lily Kwong and Tara Donovan have devised projects using nature and light on the grounds of an unusual downtown skyscraper

Amoako Boafo solo exhibition to open in Venice during 2026 Biennale

Gagosian will bring the Ghanaian artist to Venice's Palazzo Grimani in May

Hawai’i at the British Museum, a Venice palazzo for sale, Joseph Beuys’s ‘Bathtub’—podcast

Ben Luke hears about the British Museum’s fresh approach to the stewardship of its collection of Hawaiian objects, discusses the eerie history of Ca’ Dario and learns more about a late Beuys work

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

Kochi Biennale co-founder Bose Krishnamachari steps down as president

The artist and curator has resigned from his position at the Kochi Biennale Foundation citing “pressing family reasons”

The road to ‘Fridamania’: how Frida Kahlo became a global phenomenon

A new show will explore the Mexican artist's complex personality and her rise to fame over the past 50 years

From 10,000 pennies to a Beatles record haul, the obsessive work of Rutherford Chang heads to Beijing

The “near frightening rigour” of the post-conceptualist artist is celebrated at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art

Ai Weiwei’s first India solo exhibition to open in New Delhi

A selling show at Nature Morte gallery will include work from across the outspoken Chinese artist’s career—amid reports of rising censorship in India

The Year Ahead 2026: the big exhibitions and the key museum openings—podcast

From the opening of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, New York, The Art Newspaper's editors look ahead to next year's biggest stories

The Big Review | Jacques-Louis David at the Musée du Louvre, Paris ★★★★★

The major survey repositions the French artist as more than a Neoclassicist, emphasising instead his realism and idealism

Van Gogh shows in 2026: America, Japan and the Netherlands

Must-see exhibitions coming this year include ‘Van Gogh’s Sunflowers’ in Philadelphia and ‘Yellow: Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour’ in Amsterdam

Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ will head to Japan this summer in rare loan

The famous painting, held in the Mauristhuis museum in The Hague, was banned from travel in 2014

‘Certain things you can only see from the sky’: artist Precious Okoyomon on how flying planes has inspired their practice

The artist’s experience of being a recreational pilot has played into many of their works—including some on view in a current Paris exhibition

More US artists forced to pay for their own shows as museum and culture budgets shrink

A non-profit initiative in Miami exposes the widening funding gap redefining who can afford to exhibit at American institutions

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A taster of the British Museum's Hawaii show in three objects

The curator Alice Christophe delves into the catalogue and picks out some key objects ahead of the exhibition in London

Alice Christophe. With an introduction by Gareth Harris

How Gertrude Abercrombie and her Magic Realist cohorts shifted the dial on American Regionalism

Milwaukee show explores how the Queen of Chicago and her friends offered a different vision of the Midwest

Paris exhibition provides a new canon-busting vision of Minimalism

Bourse de Commerce show celebrates the movement's unsung stars such as Meg Webster

The waves that disappeared—Art duo Cooking Sections track lost tides in new installation

Centro Botin presentation also taps into community concerns about dredging and port expansion

Guatemala’s Bienal de Arte Paiz nurtures connections across geography and history

In its largest edition yet, the biennial frames art as an “arboreal metaphor” for exchange, resistance and resilience

Late UK artist Sarah Cunningham honoured with Nottingham Contemporary show

Exhibition next autumn marks return of the artist’s work to the city where she was born

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'We can imagine alternatives to the present': Cannupa Hanska Luger on his exhibition at the Joslyn Art Museum

For his new show, the multidisciplinary artist drew inspiration from 19th-century watercolours of Indigenous communities by the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer

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