Exhibitions
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
The art world in 2025: our review of the biggest stories and shows—podcast
From the Los Angeles wildfires to Trump’s policies on culture and heritage, The Art Newspaper's editors analyse the year's biggest stories
Van Gogh in 2025: Record prices, memorable shows and the first Korean acquisition
This year also brought a disturbing threat to Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum
Ecuador's Bienal de Cuenca marks 40th anniversary with a playful theme but a serious tone
The biennial opens its 17th edition with a wide-ranging programme of 17 curators directing the projects of 51 artists across multiple venues
MoMA explores how African studio portraits offered a new vision of freedom
Show proposes that West and Central African photographers may have helped shape Black identities across the globe
56 participating artists, duos and collectives revealed for 2026 Whitney Biennial
The exhibition, co-curated by Whitney Museum of American Art staffers Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, will feature artists from 25 states and Puerto Rico, plus “places marked by the reach of US power”
At Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art, the anti-action art of Japan’s women artists finds a new lease of life
“Exhibitions weren’t held, research wasn’t done,” says the curator of a new show on a forgotten generation
The best exhibitions of 2025, as chosen by curators and museum directors
From Wolfgang Tillmans at Centre Pompidou to Linder at the Hayward, these are the shows that stood out this year
Made in LA biennial contemplates wildfires and immigrant arrests
The Hammer Museum hosts 28 artists' projects while looking back on a tumultuous year in California’s biggest city
Paris exhibition presents exceptional jewels—but Louvre heist treasures missing from line up
Three major pieces, stolen in the October robbery, are absent from the otherwise glittering presentation
‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency’: entire Nan Goldin series gets first-ever UK show
An exhibition at Gagosian brings all 126 images together, marking 40 years since Goldin published the seminal series
Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ planned exhibition on displacement of Palestinians sparks outpouring of support and criticism
The museum's upcoming “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba, Past and Present” has the support of Canadian Palestinian organisations and some Jewish groups, but has been denounced by others who fear it “will ignore key issues”
Sixth Kochi Biennale: what’s on show and who is funding it
The next edition of India's leading exhibition, curated by Nikhil Chopra and HH Art Spaces, features performances by Marina Abramovic and Tino Sehgal
Despite controversy, designs for Notre Dame’s new windows go on display in Paris
Stained-glass works by the French artist Claire Tabouret will replace the original windows, which suffered no damage in the fire that destroyed the cathedral’s spire
How ‘archaeological ceramicist’ Yasmin Smith has forever changed the way I look at flint
“Elemental Life” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia shows the artist's unique use of sculpture and glazes to explore history, ecology and geology
A haunting portrait of the Everglades appears in Miami
Isabelle Brourman, an artist known for her courtoom sketches from high-profile trials, is showing in a pop-up exhibition at the Rice Hotel
‘Drastic turmoil and change’: Tokyo show explores Japan's post-boom society through its art
"Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989-2010", co-curated by The National Art Center, Tokyo and M+, Hong Kong, brings together more than 50 artists from Japan and abroad
New exhibition explores how Max Beckmann's hard-edged signature style first emerged in his drawing
Show at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt also demonstrates how the German artist's practice was altered radically by his experiences during the First World War
Sixteen must-see exhibitions in South Florida during Miami Art Week
From the late greats Richard Hunt and Joyce Pensato at the Institute of Contemporary Art to Hiba Schahbaz at Moca North Miami, Jack Pierson at the Bass and a look back at the futurism of World’s Fairs at the Wolfsonian
A vocabulary of touch: exhibition of sculpture by blind and partially blind artists opens in Leeds
The Henry Moore Institute's new show, ‘Beyond the Visual’, unpacks the value of the haptic and how perception involves all the senses




























