Exhibitions

The Big Review | Venice Biennale 2026: In Minor Keys ★★★½

Staged a year after the death of its curator, Koyo Kouoh, the Venice Biennale’s main exhibition unfolds as a sometimes-cacophonous procession guided by sentinels and hybrid beings in a rich but uneven show

Venice Biennale strike sees more than 15 pavilions temporarily or partially close

The action, organised by the campaign group Art Not Genocide Alliance, will culminate in a rally in the city

Alexander Morrison. With additional reporting by Carlie Porterfield and Gareth Harris

Sound-based Holy See pavilion opens at Venice Biennale as Vatican’s contemporary art ambitions grow

The Vatican meanwhile recently opened a contemporary art space, which next year will feature work by artists including Yan Pei-Ming

‘Exclusion can only satisfy the ego’: Venice Biennale president hits out at critics amid Russia and Israel controversy

At a conference on 6 May, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco said that calls to ban countries from the Biennale would go against its mission to be ‘the place where the world comes together’

Parasol Unit returns with a showcase of women from Central Asia and beyond

The non-profit London space, which closed in 2020, enters a new era at the Venice Biennale with an exhibition of 11 female artists

Shirin Neshat's Venice exhibition explores identity, exile and a social media tragedy

For her show at the Palazzo Marin, the artist found inspiration in the story of fellow Iranian Nasim Aghdam, whose dispute with YouTube escalated into violence

S&M-inspired Greek Pavilion in Venice confronts its fascist chains

Andreas Angelidakis's Biennale exhibition honours the murdered drag artist Zak Kostopoulos, while confronting the pavilion's fraught history

Beware the technology rat trap: Cooper Jacoby’s standout contribution to New York’s Whitney Biennial

The US artist’s sculptures explore the ways in which AI behemoths and other corporations turn our data into financial assets

Cultural workers at Venice Biennale to strike over Israel’s participation

A rally is also planned to take place in the city on the same day, 8 May

Muscle memory: Natasha Tontey’s wild Venice installation explodes perceptions of Indonesian history

The artist’s B-movie inspired project at Ateneo Veneto reimagines the story of Len Karamoy, an overlooked member of the resistance movement Permesta

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‘A remarkably tenacious motif’: the many faces of Marilyn Monroe revealed in new book and show

Different artists’ takes on the film star are explored ahead of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London

Venice exhibition of site-specific films aims to capture the hyper stimulating times we are living in

The show "Canicula" is the third in a series presented by Fondazione In Between Art Film

‘It’s really important that the public is not just a silent witness’: Marina Abramović on her Venice Biennale exhibition

The self-styled “grandmother of performance art” is the first female living artist to exhibit at the Gallerie dell’Accademia—and she wants everyone to join in

Iran will not participate at the 2026 Venice Biennale

Iran appears to have withdrawn from the 61st edition of the event, amid rising tensions and fears of renewed conflict in the Middle East

The Venice Biennale has long been a sales platform—now no one is pretending otherwise

From a Christie's exhibition to a posthumous display of Mel Ramos, this year numerous explicitly commercial shows signal a shift in attitude

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

The Big Review | Lacma's David Geffen Galleries ★★★★

This vast, visionary new building on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art campus flaunts strengths in displaying antiquities