The Taiwan-born artist is best known for a series of year-long performances where he subjected his mind and body to near-torturous conditions. As a major retrospective of his work opens in the US, he tells us why he created these remarkable pieces

The show will include the rare loan of the masterpiece held by London's National Gallery

The Phillips Collection was founded amid a president’s calls for a return to “normalcy”, and today the museum is addressing a city and a country grappling with a similar dynamic

The Gagosian show will feature a dozen of Cornell’s most recognisable works

Running from 6–9 November, the 2025 programme promises “bold, experimental and unapologetic” work

From Phung-Tien Phan’s everyday objects and Eiki Mori’s anti-authoritarian flags, to human/natural catastrophes, guerilla art and the African diaspora

The artist’s mid-career retrospective traces the evolution of her practice through installations, documentation and live performances

The exhibition ‘Prism of the Real’ at Tokyo’s National Art Center challenges the idea of Japan as a fixed national entity

Walk&Talk, launched in 2011 as a celebration of street art, this year hosts an abundance of works by more than 80 artists in nine venues around the island of São Miguel

A sneak preview of next year’s major shows, around the world

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents a display of the artist’s fragile, light-filled works celebrating his mastery of sea, sky and shore

Giant statues and a section of Trajan’s Column flaunt the might and culture of the empire under the successful ruler

The director of exhibitions at London's Somerset House on why he keeps returning to Brian O'Doherty's writing

The show will take place at the Palazzo Tiepolo Passi and will include 35 works dating from 2015 to 2019

New York’s performance art biennial also features a slate of Lithuanian artists, a reimagined tale of supernatural mourning and a pop-rock supergroup singing protest songs

Affinities and distinctions are equally welcomed in a pair of exhibitions at the London venue

An Ottoman blade once believed to have been owned by the famous monarch is at the heart of Strawberry Hill House’s latest show

The show benefiting the Ali Forney Center at David Zwirner comes as LGBTQ+ organisations in the US struggle to replace government funding that has been rescinded or withdrawn

This sometimes muddled show gets lost in its own lyricism, but works by the likes of Marlene Almeida and a performance rescue the endeavour

The jugs include the British Museum’s Asante Ewer, which was made in England but ended up in West Africa, before being looted by the British

Works by the six international artists shortlisted for the UK’s biggest contemporary art prize can be seen at five venues, including the National Museum Cardiff

In a departure from her practice, the artist, commissioned by the fashion brand Miu Miu, wrote a libretto for the two-hour long performance

The massive, historic works at the core of “Monuments” were never meant to travel, and moving them has been an enormously complex job

Offering commentary on international relations and soft power, the ambitious video work features an 81-episode recreation of the American TV show, “Santa Barbara”

The exhibition will include 23 works across four locations, all under the theme of The Light Compass

The dealer’s first curatorial project since her release from prison re-examines the art boom of the 1980s, when she cemented her place in the market

From Turner winner Helen Marten at Palais d’Iéna, to Gerhard Richter at Fondation Louis-Vuitton

The Philadelphia survey shows that there was more to this “naive” artist

For the occasion, the institution has also remodelled its lobby and put together a separate exhibition looking back at its history

The show at the Brick and the Museum of Contemporary Art addresses the US’s fraught racial history—featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments alongside works by Kara Walker, Leonardo Drew, Torkwase Dyson and others