Exhibitions

What did you miss? Summer art world news and what’s coming up—podcast

In this week's episode, Ben Luke speaks to three editors at The Art Newspaper about developments in July and August as well as events they are looking forward to

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Alexander Morrison
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‘Putin didn’t win; art won’: Venice Biennale president defends decision to allow Russia’s participation

Pietrangelo Buttafuoco said he would do “everything” again in regards to his clash with the Italian government and the European Commission on the issue

Long-hidden Van Gogh self-portrait to star in major Paris exhibition

Now owned by the Niarchos Greek shipping family, it will be loaned to a huge show on the fabled pioneer collector Gustave Fayet

Ten surprising facts about the Bayeux Tapestry

As the British Museum opens its decades-in-the-making exhibition of the nearly 1,000-year-old embroidery, we pored over its past and present journey

From DIY endeavour to London art world mainstay: Bold Tendencies celebrates 20 years

The not-for-profit organisation puts on ambitious art, music and performance in the unlikely setting of a multi-storey car park in Peckham

Leading Mexican curator Cuauhtémoc Medina tapped to organise next edition of Guatemala’s Bienal de Arte Paiz

Medina will curate the 25th iteration of one of Latin America’s second-oldest biennial, opening in November 2027

From Dante’s Hell to Zelda: rare fantasy map collection to go on view in Zurich

Cartographical works tied to famous works of fiction will feature in an exhibition at Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Police and firefighters break into gallery after sculpture is mistaken for a person in distress

The sculpture, of an art preparator whose torso is concealed in a crate with their legs sticking out, prompted a late-night rescue mission at Vancouver’s Access Gallery

Houston exhibition explores memory and mythmaking in the American landscape

‘Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee’ brings together work of Beverly Buchanan and Dionne Lee that highlights histories hidden in the environment

Rembrandt self-portrait returns to German city 80 years after it was illegally removed

The work is on loan to the exhibition ‘Rembrandt 1632: The Creation of a Brand’ at the Ducal Museum Gotha

‘We are united’: King Charles III and President Macron attend private preview of London's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition

Likely commissioned in France but made in England, the tapestry could have been called ‘the Canterbury Embroidery’ joked the King in a speech

The Big Review: Frida, The Making of an Icon ★★★½

Tate show provides a decent selection of the artist’s work but somewhat unravels in its attempt to fully assess her star status

In Korea and Japan, art breaches an often troubled shared history

An exhibition organised jointly in Yokohama and Seoul explores painful, and sometimes neglected, episodes from the countries’ past

Five shows to see during Seoul art week

There are plenty of exhibitions to see beyond the fairs

Metropolitan Museum and designer John Galliano cancel planned Costume Institute exhibition amid backlash

A chorus of Jewish community leaders, donors, politicians and others criticised the Met’s decision to honour Galliano in light of a 2011 conviction for an antisemitic hate crime

Comment | Felix Gonzalez-Torres's major survey in Madrid shows how his art was both stridently political and gently lyrical

The exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofía demonstrates the wealth of meanings in the artist's work

‘We don't think it should be controversial to talk about these subjects’: Bonniers Konsthall opens exhibition on art as antifascist resistance ahead of Swedish election

The group show ‘The Defeated: The Aesthetics of Resistance 2026’, which opened in Stockholm this week, is inspired by the antifascist, postwar literature of German-Swedish writer Peter Weiss

Curveball at the Art Gallery of Ontario as Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dylan Cease showcases painting skills

Cease, who took up painting in 2022, displayed one of his works at the revered Toronto gallery and launched a line of merchandise benefiting the institution

Artist Piers Secunda creates paintings from ashes of Ukrainian buildings bombed by Russia

Works in the exhibition “Nature Morte”, on display at Fitzrovia Gallery, are accompanied by open-source information about individuals identified by the Ukrainian governmen as complicit in war crimes

‘These are party houses aren't they?’ Why Britain's stately homes are opening up to contemporary art

Showing works by artists including Tracey Emin and Phyllida Barlow over the summer is helping to attract new audiences and bolster income for historic buildings

Young adults with experience of having parents in prison to curate exhibition at London’s Southbank Centre

Rock, Paper, Scissors will bring together more than 200 works by people in criminal justice settings

Comment | A Henry Moore exhibition at Kew highlights the uneasy relationship between art and nature

The great bronze brutalist forms seem more to suggest the impossibility of returning to natural innocence

At the Venice Biennale, collateral exhibitions embrace the possibilities of digital art

Both AI-generated art and digital art have had a tough time lately, but the 61st Venice Biennale offers the digitally-minded some work to feel good about

Dresden’s star Correggio altarpiece, newly restored, will anchor major exhibition

The High Renaissance master’s “Madonna of St Sebastian” shows off its colours after nearly four years of treatment

Hurvin Anderson commission to feature in ‘Beyond Bayeux’ exhibition spotlighting contemporary British tapestries

The work, made for the sexcentenary of Oxford's Lincoln College, will be shown alongside other artist-designed tapestries woven at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh

Heart of gold: exhibitions tune into Peter Simensky's sculptural radios and celebrate his legacy

The late artist’s ‘pyrite radios’ feature alongside works by his friends, students and collaborators at the Maine College of Art & Design

Louvre to lend Islamic art treasures to the Smithsonian

Upcoming exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, will feature 26 works from the Louvre, some of which have never been shown in the US

Treasures from Ancient Egypt’s ‘Golden City’, and the stories of the people who made them, revealed in San Francisco show

Twenty artefacts from Pharaoh Amenhotep III's abandoned city, discovered on Luxor’s west bank in 2021, are part of the exhibition at the de Young Museum

Artists visualise environmental fragility and resilience on New York’s Governors Island

A new public work by Alan Michelson and an exhibition by Leslie Wayne explore climate change and fragile ecosystems