Exhibitions

Rocked on their heels: how exhibitions can change the course of artists’ lives

The revelation of witnessing a groundbreaking show can redefine an artist's creative trajectory

London exhibition explores untold history of how homelessness was criminalised

Work by artists and activists including 10 Foot, Matt Bonner and Gemma Lees shows how land enclosures and early colonial expansion began to change how unhoused people were treated

Venice show brings together two leading figures from the Polish avant-garde

The the 20th-century artists Tadeusz Kantor and Maria Jarema feature in a collateral exhibition at the 61st Biennale

British Museum reveals ticket prices for Bayeux Tapestry exhibition

The first tranche of tickets can be booked from 1 July; members, meanwhile, will only be able to visit free-of-charge twice

Boats and trains, not planes: reflections on a greener—but sometimes greenwashed—Venice Biennale

From curator Koyo Kouoh’s foregrounding of “all earthly elements” to Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo's new sustainable art island, references to the environment can be found throughout the Italian city

Tate Britain's James McNeill Whistler exhibition aims to show he was more than just a combative ‘coxcomb’

The show will bring to light the “incredible skill and magic and variety” in the painter’s work

59th Carnegie International tests the limits of connection and inclusion

Titled ‘If the word we’, the recurring exhibition's 2026-27 edition strives to celebrate both world-class artists and the community in and around Pittsburgh

Tate Britain previews new garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Featuring a Barbara Hepworth sculpture, the display is framed as a "taster" of Tate Britain's public sculpture garden to open next year

At Birmingham's Ikon Gallery, Angela de la Cruz's audacious, visceral art takes no prisoners

“Upright” is the artist's first exhibition in a UK institution since 2010

New York institutions offer nuanced and inclusive views of US’s 250th birthday

Museums across the city have organised shows dedicated to the history of the American Revolution, featuring at least three historical copies of the Declaration of Independence—but some are focusing on the present day, too

Photographer Giles Duley brings images of historic and current wars into dialogue in Manhattan pop-up show

For a pop-up exhibition in a penthouse apartment high above Midtown, the British photographer is showing archival materials, his own photos and three room-sized installations

Still in ‘war mode’: Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art reopens with exhibitions about conflict

Iranian museum's director speaks out about new, responsive programming and the team's ongoing struggle to protect its $3bn collection

Dinosaurs roam New York’s Bowery

The fossilised skeletons make an unusual incursion into a downtown gallery, meeting John Chamberlain's twisted-metal forms

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‘The content, material and form support each other’: Sandy Rodriguez on her Hispanic Society Museum show

The Los Angeles-based Chicana artist employs centuries-old Indigenous processes for making maps and other materials

Garment, body and space merge in Iris van Herpen’s first major New York show

The Dutch couturier blends art and fashion with nature and technology

Bringing back the salon: UK organisation aims to revive Brighton's contemporary art scene

The Adelaide Salon, which stages salon-style events and exhibitions, is taking over a royal palace and creating a new gallery space

Iran has not withdrawn from 2026 Venice Biennale, pavilion commissioner says

Mahdizadeh Tehrani, from Iran’s ministry of culture and Islamic guidance (MCIG), has said that the country is still negotiating to show at the event despite Biennale organisers announcing it would not participate

Nine shows to see during Frieze New York

Check out our top picks from the many exhibitions taking place across the city

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‘Common ground for me is everywhere I step’: Mohammad Omer Khalil on his five-institution show

The 90-year-old artist, who has lived and worked in New York since the 1960s, has been largely overlooked in the US

Enter the unsettled space of Asian American abstraction

A generation of painters sidestepped identity—only to discover that it had structured their work all along

With new Costume Institute exhibition and galleries, the Met makes powerful statement about fashion's place in museums

Featuring nearly 400 objects ranging from gowns to ancient Greek armour and vases, “Costume Art” argues the dressed body is the only form of artistic expression that connects each of the museum’s collecting areas

Frank Stella’s eye-dazzling collection of Navajo weavings to go on view

Geometric pattern explosion as abstract artist’s Diné rugs and blankets get first public showing, in New York City

Counterpublic comes to New York ahead of its next triennial, Coyote Time

As it prepares for its third edition, the St Louis-based triennial will present a performance by the Oglála Lakȟóta artist Kite at The Shed in partnership with Frieze

Exhibitions marking 250th anniversary of the US open in New York

New York museums are advancing an inclusive view of national history ahead of the US semiquincentennial, from scenes of the original Dutch colonists to art of Indigenous communities

The Big Review | Venice Biennale 2026: In Minor Keys ★★★½

Staged a year after the death of its curator, Koyo Kouoh, the Venice Biennale’s main exhibition unfolds as a sometimes-cacophonous procession guided by sentinels and hybrid beings in a rich but uneven show

Venice Biennale strike sees more than 15 pavilions temporarily or partially close

The action, organised by the campaign group Art Not Genocide Alliance, will culminate in a rally in the city

Alexander Morrison. With additional reporting by Carlie Porterfield and Gareth Harris

Sound-based Holy See pavilion opens at Venice Biennale as Vatican’s contemporary art ambitions grow

The Vatican meanwhile recently opened a contemporary art space, which next year will feature work by artists including Yan Pei-Ming

‘Exclusion can only satisfy the ego’: Venice Biennale president hits out at critics amid Russia and Israel controversy

At a conference on 6 May, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco said that calls to ban countries from the Biennale would go against its mission to be ‘the place where the world comes together’

Parasol Unit returns with a showcase of women from Central Asia and beyond

The non-profit London space, which closed in 2020, enters a new era at the Venice Biennale with an exhibition of 11 female artists

Shirin Neshat's Venice exhibition explores identity, exile and a social media tragedy

For her show at the Palazzo Marin, the artist found inspiration in the story of fellow Iranian Nasim Aghdam, whose dispute with YouTube escalated into violence