Exhibitions
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
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
This year's Carnegie International will feature 61 artists, including Jasleen Kaur and Li Yi-Fan
The latest iteration of the recurring exhibition boasts more specially commissioned works than ever before
London show highlights how drawing was at the heart of Lucian Freud’s practice
The National Portrait Gallery is exploring a less familiar aspect of the artist’s work through his archive and recently acquired etchings
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
‘I'm going to miss the quiet life we had’: Greenlander artist Inuuteq Storch on Trump, travel and his ambitions to build a photography museum
As his latest exhibition opens at the Hasselblad Center, Storch discusses his love and hope for his home country
World Cup art initiatives go for goal in Mexico City
Ambitious cultural programme will accompany the 2026 Fifa World Cup tournament
Art Basel Qatar, Dürer portrait debate, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Edvard Munch—podcast
Ben Luke talks to art market editor Kabir Jhala about the inaugural fair in Doha, explores the debate surrounding a painting of Dürer’s father, and we hear about the synergies between two 20th-century painters
Gwen John—the quiet ‘seer of strange beauties’—gets major show in Wales
The exhibition, dedicated to the painter who sold few works during her lifetime and was largely overlooked in favour of her brother, will also travel to Scotland and tour the US
Saudi Arabia looks to its Modern art history as the art world eyes up the Gulf
With the inaugural Art Basel opening in Qatar, and with Frieze in Abu Dhabi later this year, the Kingdom is looking to the past with its exhibitions and auctions
Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Lydia Ourahmane among artists confirmed for new Qatar quadrennial
The headline exhibition Unruly Waters will chart Qatar’s “past and present role as a geopolitical hub”
Vancouver Art Gallery show celebrates Emily Carr's affinity with nature
The Canadian painter is the subject of a major exhibition of her landscapes, inspired by British Columbia
Five artists announced for India's Venice Biennale pavilion
Organised by curator Amin Jaffer, the selected artists all use organic materials traditional to India in their work
Exhibitions to see during Mexico City Art Week
From audio-tape portraits to the mother-daughter relationship, we share some must-see shows
Mexico City exhibition explores dynamic exchange between Americas and Southeast Asia
An exhibition marking 50 years of relations with Singapore is organised around the Philippines-Mexico galleon trade system
Pioneering sculptor Geles Cabrera’s Mexico City retrospective marks centennial
The exhibition at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes traces the 99-year-old Mexican artist’s unique and dynamic approach to the human figure and highlights her work as a cultural organiser
From a bakery pop-up to an I.M. Pei survey: the exhibitions to see in Doha during Art Basel Qatar
Several major shows are taking place in the city during the inaugural edition of the fair
Venice Biennale: South African pavilion scandal, Marian Goodman remembered, Paul Cezanne in Basel—podcast
We discuss the cancellation of Gabrielle Goliath’s pavilion and the artist’s attempt have the decision overturned, pay tribute to the lauded gallerist Marian Goodman, and hear about Cezanne’s famous ‘The Card Players’
Van Gogh and café culture: 'The absinthes and brandies would follow each other in quick succession'
A touring exhibition on Parisian cafés is opening in Denmark and then goes to America
Anish Kapoor to show some of his most ambitious projects—realised or not—in Venice
The exhibition of architectural models and sculptures at the artist's Cannaregio foundation will explore the less commercial side of his practice
Museum wall texts are an art in their own right—but will they survive the digital age?
With shortened attention spans and constant technological distractions, some museums are getting rid of labels altogether
Show unpacks legacy of polymath architect who restored Paris's Notre-Dame (the first time)
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's epic 19th-century redesigns of the cathedral are a highlight of the exhibition at Bard Graduate Center in New York
A brush with… curator James Lingwood
From the pleasures of Paris to the writings of Italo Calvino, the curator, writer and producer shares his cultural influences
Denmark exhibition invites visitors to come face to face with Basquiat’s ‘head’ works
Show at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presents early drawings of human heads that remained largely unseen during the artist’s lifetime
Tarek Atoui—known for his innovative musical performances—will take over Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this autumn
The Lebanese artist and composer blends sound, technology and sculpture to reference current social, historical and political realities
‘Rubens with jokes’: UK exhibitions place Beryl Cook in the art historical canon
Two new shows in the artist’s hometown of Plymouth examine her themes and influences
Conceptual artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s gets expansive tribute in California show
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive aims to present a more complete view of the late artist’s varied practice
Practice what you preach: artists reflect on ocean crisis at England's Baltic as centre wins sustainability award
Shezad Dawood, Joan Jonas and Otobong Nkanga are among the artists included in the group exhibition 'For All At Last Return'
Naomi Campbell reflects on Picasso’s muses for exhibition in Swiss Alps
The supermodel has penned an essay for Nahmad Contemporary's upcoming show in Gstaad





























