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
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
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
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
The must-see exhibitions of 2026: from Duchamp in New York to Baldessari in Beijing
We round-up the biggest shows opening each month
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
Our pick of the shows to see in the world's great art cities in 2026
The exhibitions to visit in London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and Madrid
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
'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





























