Exhibitions

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

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'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

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Aimee Dawson, Philippa Kelly and David Clack

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

Compiled by José da Silva

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

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‘We need to rethink’: new exhibition revisits an Israeli conceptual art project, 53 years on

The show complicates and expands on the legacy of the 1972 exhibition “Metzer-Meiser”, which explored the seamline between the titular Israeli and Arab communities

The Big Review | Fra Angelico at Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, Florence ★★★★★

This two-venue show in Florence makes clear that the “angelic” early Renaissance artist was as lucid and inventive a storyteller as he was dazzling

‘We are living through an extremely traumatic moment’: Adrián Villar Rojas's new sculpture explores ‘existential anxieties’

Commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary and the Aspen Art Museum, the work will be on display at the watchmaker's Swiss headquarters until spring 2026 then will travel to Colorado

Frenemies or rivals? Tate Britain show explores Turner and Constable's turbulent relationship

Celebrating the 250th anniversaries of the emblematic British artists, the exhibition will tell the story of their interlinked careers, their work and its reception

Sculptor Alma Allen officially selected to represent US at 2026 Venice Biennale

The state department’s announcement, delayed by the US government shutdown, says Allen’s presentation will further Donald Trump’s “focus on showcasing American excellence”

Queer sexuality in Islamic art explored in Norway exhibition

'Deviant Ornaments' at Oslo's Nasjonalmuseet brings together more than 40 objects from the past 1,000 years alongside contemporary art

Penn Museum opens Native North America Gallery after two-year overhaul

The Philadelphia museum, located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, has completely rethought the 2,000-sq.-ft gallery in collaboration with eight Indigenous curators