Exhibitions

Whimsy wins the day at Desert X's 2025 edition

Two hours east of Los Angeles, a road trip worth the journey to outdoor projects by Alison Saar, Agnes Denes, Jose Dávila and others

Tutankhamun treasures head to Hong Kong for major Ancient Egypt show

Seven Egyptian venues will loan more than 200 works for the exhibition, including objects from Saqqara tombs

Our pick of the shows to see during Hong Kong art week

From Sin Wai Kin's latest video works to Sarah Sze's first solo exhibition in Asia

Alicja Kwade’s latest work, on show in Hong Kong, looks behind prison bars where time is torture

The Polish artist’s exhibition, Pretopia, draws on the origins and history of a former Victorian jail in the city

In her comeback show, painter Seung Ah Paik renders her body as a map

After stepping away from the art world and starting a family, the artist is having her first solo show in New York with Gratin and showing two new paintings at Art Basel Hong Kong with Bortolami

Tate Modern announces 2026 programme, including Frida Kahlo and Tracey Emin exhibitions

Meanwhile Tate Britain will explore the legacy of Bloomsbury Group members Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and tell the story of the 90s in a show curated by Edward Enninful

‘If necessary, I will shout at him!’: Richard Ansett's images of Grayson Perry go on show at Sotheby's

The selling exhibition will open in London on 28 March, alongside Perry's Wallace Collection show, ‘Delusions of Grandeur’

Jack Whitten at MoMA, Paris Noir at the Pompidou, Arpita Singh at the Serpentine—podcast

Tracing Whitten’s artistic development with the largest ever show of his work, the story of an exhibition exploring the lives of Black artists in France, and Hans Ulrich Obrist on a monumental painting by the esteemed Indian artist Singh

Matisse wanted to buy a Van Gogh portrait—instead, his brother bought a bicycle

Years later, inspired by Vincent’s paintings, the French artist became a “wild beast”

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‘I’m the most content I’ve ever been’: Tracey Emin on having her first museum show in Italy, losing her libido and why she had to take a break from painting

The British artist discusses the way her views on painting and life have shifted over the years as an expansive show of her works opens at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence

Massachusetts museum presents an artist's intimate portrait of a dying glacier

Ohan Breiding’s experimental film and photography, on view at Mass Moca, pay homage to the disappearing Rhône Glacier in Switzerland

You’ve got mail: pathbreaking exhibition on Van Gogh’s postman opens shortly in Boston, then heads to Amsterdam

While painting Joseph Roulin and his wife and children, Vincent wrote in great excitement: “I’ve done the portraits of an entire family”

‘A time travelling conversation about life and art’: the botanical collages of Mary Delany and Georgie Hopton

The exhibition opening at Bath's No.1 Royal Crescent, which pairs works by the 18th-century collagist and the contemporary artist, is part of a series of shows attempting to draw new audiences to the gallery

Roses, oil and beaver secretion: why French museums are appealing to visitors’ sense of smell

In an attempt to create a more immersive exhibition experience, art institutions in France have been employing some unusual scents

New York gallery for Visionary art offers an inner journey in time for the vernal equinox

The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in upstate New York is unveiling the second contemporary art exhibition in its Entheon museum at ‘an auspicious time of year’, according to its founders

As Tate marks Turner’s 250th birthday, his visions of a wild world still elevate, soothe and harrow the soul

A year-long event bonanza will mark the birthday of perhaps the greatest British artist ever

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Gaza’s Eltiqa collective holds show in exile in Dubai

As a retrospective at Jameel Arts Centre gathers together two decades of work from around the globe, a co-founder describes his personal flight to safety

Exhibitions to see during Tefaf Maastricht 2025

Discover the spiritual side of Andy Warhol, a musical rendition of a historic Egyptian uprising, and the uncanny universe of a reluctant Surrealist

Rare 15th-century manuscript is star of exhibition at Château de Chantilly in France

Richly coloured and decorated work is going on show after conservation, partly funded by the Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund

Gillian Wearing and Michael Landy’s joint exhibition shows the artistic power of love

The artist couple’s show in Naples, Italy, also taps into the city’s religious heritage

An architect’s dream: Refik Anadol launches AI tribute to Frank Gehry at Guggenheim Bilbao

The media artist presents “Living Architecture: Gehry”, generated from a new large architecture model containing visual data from the LA-based architect’s 65 years in practice

Revelation over last surviving portrait of England’s ‘nine day queen’ was made 20 years ago, art historian says

English Heritage has published new research into the picture, supporting the fact it may depict Lady Jane Grey, but its sitter was also proposed in a 2007 exhibition

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Louise Giovanelli: ‘Because of the curtains and tinsel, people think I grew up with working men’s clubs’

The UK painter’s first major museum show, at the Hepworth Wakefield, offers recognition of a talent whose ambiguous works can shift between the humdrum of the ordinary and the ecstasy of revelation

At home with Goya, Titian and Velázquez: Joana Vasconcelos makes a flamboyant impression in Madrid’s Liria Palace

The Portuguese artist mounts the first contemporary exhibition to be installed alongside the Duke of Alba’s fabled art collection

Censorship and Australia’s Venice Biennale pavilion, a controversial AI auction, and Elizabeth Catlett in Washington—podcast

What might the fallout be after Creative Australia’s unpopular decision to cancel Khaled Sabsabi’s project? Plus, AI art beyond this week’s open letter and a chat about Catlett’s terracotta sculpture ‘Tired’

Guts, verve, beauty and splendour: International Women’s Day exhibitions, events and auctions

‘Women in Revolt!’ heads to Manchester, Tracey Emin makes the Independent Women 2025 Influence List and EmpowerHER ‘25 creates a space where “women's voices in art could truly be seen and heard”

‘When will they ever learn?’: Anselm Kiefer reveals Amsterdam installation with anti-war message at its heart

‘Sag mir wo die Blumen sind’, the centrepiece of a new two-part exhibition, is titled after a 1950s anti-war song by the folk singer Pete Seeger

The Kiefer-Van Gogh exhibition comes to Amsterdam and London, with fresh works inspired by the German artist’s pilgrimage 60 years ago

At the last minute hundreds of Kiefer’s home-grown sunflower seeds stuck on a huge painting needed to be replaced after they had attracted insects

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'America gives me no shortage of subject matter': Vincent Valdez on making art that connects communities

The artist's first major museum survey, "Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream..." at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, tracks 20 years of his identity-driven photorealism