Exhibitions

Paul McCarthy: ‘The world is now an extreme absurdity. The work is a reaction to that’

The veteran provocateur talks about his return to the enduring motif of Santa Claus, and his ongoing collaboration with the German actress Lilith Stangenberg, as an exhibition of his taboo-busting work opens in Paris

US exhibition unearths the Etruscans and their enduring cultural influence

Nearly 200 objects will be on view at San Francisco's Legion of Honor in a show exploring the influential civilisation

Cosmic, concrete, earthy: Nancy Holt’s Land Art on show in UK

The Goodwood Art Foundation hosts Britain's first major exhibition by the US artist

Venice Biennale’s jury resigns

The five-person jury resigned amid an escalating dispute over the participation of Israel and Russia at this year’s Biennale

The curator awakens: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art reveals inaugural exhibition lineup

George Lucas is curating 18 thematic exhibitions that will fill 100,000 sq. ft of the $1bn museum he and his wife Mellody Hobson are building in Los Angeles

New space dedicated to Oleg Prokofiev—whose abstract art was censored by Soviet Russia—opens in London

The paintings will be unveiled in "Bending Time", the inaugural exhibition at Prokofiev Studio in Hackney

East Africa meets Western Europe as Michael Armitage takes on Venice's Palazzo Grassi

The sweeping exhibition "The Promise of Change" demonstrates the painter’s fascination with art history and mythology, and his movement between dreams and documentary

Who is Gladys Hynes? Show reinstates forgotten artist who once represented Britain at the Venice Biennale

Exhibition at Charleston in Lewes, England, explores the work of the now 'non-existent' artist who was linked to avant-garde circles including the Bloomsbury Group

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

Two Brazilian curators selected to organise 2027 Bienal de São Paulo

Amanda Carneiro and Raphael Fonseca will organise the biennial’s 37th edition

The forgotten Chinese conceptualists: Melbourne show brings together works by New Measurement Group

The exhibition at Buxton Contemporary will reassess the output and importance of the 1980s scene

The village where Van Gogh spent his final days celebrates its most distinguished visitor

Two exhibitions open in Auvers-sur-Oise, the last stop on the artist’s journey

Vancouver Biennale names senior curator for 2027-29 edition

This marks a return to Vancouver for the Brazilian curator Marcello Dantas, who organised a Vik Muniz project in the city as part of the biennale’s 2013-15 edition

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Nominees for the Turner Prize 2026 announced by Tate

This year’s selection includes a “strong emphasis on sculptural practice”, says the Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson

Slags, bings and pipelines: Edinburgh landscape offers fitting backdrop for exhibition on fossil fuel extraction

While Jupiter Artland show brings together five artists whose work explores energy histories, the sculpture park and gallery has transitioned to nearly 100% renewable energy

British Art Show—exhibiting UK's 'most exciting' art in past five years—announces line up for tenth edition

Organised by curator Ekow Eshun, "A Chorus of Strangers" includes artists such as Alex Margo Arden, Alvaro Barrington, Lubna Chowdhary and Jesse Darling

US-Israel war on Iran disrupts art transport routes as prices surge

Rising oil prices affecting air freight and blocks to shipping routes are forcing Asian logistics firms to rethink plans and absorb losses

The Big Review: Rothko in Florence ★★★★★

A revelatory show, which has been years in the making, stretches across three venues in the birthplace of the Renaissance

Toronto Biennial takes waterways as inspiration for its fourth edition

Opening in September, the exhibition will feature works by 30 artists including Kent Monkman, Rebecca Belmore and Coco Fusco

France's Château La Coste hosts four decades of work by designer Marc Newson

The hotel and art centre in Provence is showing the famous ‘Lockheed Lounge’ chair and ‘Electra’, a monumental 6m-high sculpture unveiled for the first time

Berlin exhibition focuses in on women photographers of the Bauhaus

“New Woman, New Vision” explores lesser-known works from the Bauhaus archive

New Bienal de Yucatán to spotlight Mexican region’s growing art scene

The biennial will launch in November, anchored by Mérida’s rich community of artists, galleries and alternative spaces

Antwerp exhibition celebrates its homegrown fashion designers, the influential Antwerp Six

The Belgian city’s MoMu fashion museum celebrates the 40th anniversary of the designers’ international breakthrough

Readymades, replicas, reiterations: MoMA show explores Marcel Duchamp the inventor

The first major US exhibition of the conceptual artist in more than five decades presents his multi-sensory work and habit of making and remaking as “very, very today”

Philadelphia art museums celebrate America's 250th anniversary with blockbuster two-venue show

Sweeping exhibition will include more than 1,000 works by US artists, including paintings, photographs, sculptures and pieces of decorative art

George Costakis, collector and saviour of Soviet avant-garde art, celebrated with Athens exhibition

The anniversary show features works by Malevich, Popova and more, which Costakis rescued from potential oblivion

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‘The subject demanded a more restrained approach’: Carlos Rolón on revisiting the 1966 uprising in Chicago's Humboldt Park

The Chicagoan artist’s solo exhibition at 65Grand documents the Puerto Rican community, where he lives, through intricate, monochrome drawings, found material sculpture and more