Exhibitions

4,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian handprint discovered by Cambridge museum

Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum, UK, found the marking on an artefact due to go on display in an exhibition this autumn

Folkestone Triennial 2025 review: environmental catastrophe—but also hope, joy and a jolly salamander

The sixth edition of the sprawling exhibition on the English coast includes sculptures, immersive installations and films by 18 artists

Van Gogh was not fantasising when he painted mountain landscapes with ‘The Two Holes’

A pair of pictures with this bizarre geological feature both ended up in New York

Jenny Saville: ‘You are having a conversation with the paint, as well as with the sitter’

The artist’s large-scale paintings caught the eye of Charles Saatchi when she was just out of art school. Three decades on, with a solo show at the National Portrait Gallery, Saville discusses her unique take on portraiture

Right royal style: 90 years of Queen Elizabeth II’s fashion to go on show at Buckingham Palace

The late monarch's wedding and coronation dresses will form part of a 200-piece exhibition at the King's Gallery, opening in Spring 2026

The Big Review | David Hockney 25 at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris ★★★★

The largest ever exhibition on the British artist takes over the entire Fondation Louis Vuitton building with works that go back to the very beginning

Artists travel back in time with work created from ancient wood discovered at site of lost London river

Jane and Louise Wilson’s work will go on show at site of Roman temple in the heart of London

Christie’s celebrates the late Syrian artist Marwan with non-selling London show

The exhibition is auction house’s third dedicated to Middle Eastern art, part of a strategy to support the region

Millais treasure trove goes on long-term loan to Scottish gallery

The Raphaelite figure's great-grandson has loaned over 150 works on paper

Blood, skeletons and syphilis: the story of Edvard Munch’s obsession with health

An exhibition at the Munch museum in Oslo shows how the artist’s fascination with medicine, bodies and mental illness was reflected in his art

Vandalised portraits of Windrush generation restored and reinstated in London square

Twenty photographs in the ‘Windrush Untold Stories’ exhibition were daubed with paint earlier this month while on display in London

Capitalism, cityscapes and the climate crisis take centre stage at Luma Arles

Shows by Peter Fischli, Bas Smets and Wael Shawky explore reflection, urban ecologies and the mythology of Pompeii

Ancient art on wheels: how Mumbai's leading museum is sending miniature exhibitions by bus into the Indian countryside

CSMVS's mobile museum venture, created in collaboration with an exhibition it curated with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Berlin State Museums and the British Museum, examines the underlying connections between ancient civilisations

Resistance is febrile at this summer's Rencontres d’Arles

The 56th edition of the photography festival asserts the medium’s disobedient streak

Sunstroke and protocol faux pas: works by royal tour artists go on show at Buckingham Palace

Since 1985, 43 artists have visited 95 countries and produced 300 paintings for the personal collection of the King—but it hasn't always been smooth sailing

Kew Gardens to host largest-ever open-air Henry Moore show

Opening in May 2026, thirty works will be dotted around the 320-acre Unesco World Heritage site

‘Our pattern, our document’: this Indigenous Australian community is using design to assert its rights

An exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney is showing how Yolŋu people in the Northern Territory have employed sacred imagery in the fight to retain ownership of their land

Bayeux Tapestry to return to UK for first time in almost 1,000 years

The tapestry will be displayed at the British Museum from September 2026, as part of a bilateral season of culture between the UK and France

A blockbuster Gerhard Richter retrospective, co-organised by Nicholas Serota, is coming to Paris

The German blue-chip artist will show more than 250 works at Fondation Louis Vuitton from October

‘An act of solidarity’: exhibitions raising funds and awareness for Palestinians open in London

One show presents works by over 200 artists, while another focuses on protests across the UK

As an Emily Kam Kngwarray survey opens at Tate Modern this week, contemporary Indigenous artists are finally taking centre stage in the UK

Other landmark shows of First Nation artists this summer include Duane Linklater at Camden Art Centre and Santiago Yahuarcani at the Whitworth

Somerset House to mark 25 years as a public space with weekend of free events

London centre for innovation and contemporary art will feature work by Tai Shani, Nick Ryan and Gaika during “Step Inside 25 Weekend”, alongside a pop-up basketball installation, drawing workshops and an immersive disco experience

Gustave Caillebotte blockbuster that sparked controversy in France opens in Chicago—with one key difference

The show launched in Paris to claims that it was a tainted exercise in queering the French artist

The magic of Troy Hill—a series of unique whole house art installations in Pittsburgh

Inspired by a visit to Naoshima art island in Japan, a US collector has commissioned a compelling group of site-specific installations

Why Helen Chadwick’s earthy, provocative art remains as vital as ever

Exhibitions around the country are showing, nearly 20 years after her untimely death, just how groundbreaking the British artist was

UAEnews

Exhibition in Abu Dhabi marks collaboration between Korean and Emirati institutions

An exhibition of Korean art this summer at Manarat Al Saadiyat will be followed by a show of Emirati art in Seoul this winter

Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey, Cecilia Alemani on SITE Santa Fe, Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg—podcast

We speak to Jafa and Leckey about their forthcoming London exhibition, ask Alemani about the US-based biennial—whose title this year was inspired by a film by Godfrey Reggio—and zone in on a landmark dance collaboration

Three works by artist and sexual abuser Eric Gill withdrawn from UK exhibition after consultation with survivors group

The Ditchling Museum in Sussex took on board the objections of the Methodist Survivors Advisory Group