Exhibitions

Rare view into Tom Wesselmann’s studio for pop-up duo show with Tomokazu Matsuyama

The Pop pioneer's estate, with support from Almine Rech, has organised an intergenerational pairing of Wesselmann's Americana and Matsuyama's contemporary art-historical mashups

Turner Prize 2026 opens in North Yorkshire at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

The exhibition featuring shortlisted artists Tanoa Sasraku, Marguerite Humeau, Simeon Barclay and Kira Freije opens to the public on 26 September

The astonishing story of Van Gogh collector Gertrud Dübi-Müller is finally celebrated in an exhibition at Switzerland’s Kunstmuseum Basel

She bought a Van Gogh portrait as early as 1908 as an orphaned teenager, and three years later became the first woman in her city to own a car

Painting believed to be a newly discovered Goya to go on show at Museo del Prado in 2028

Spain’s culture ministry says “everything seems to indicate” that a painting owned by the gallerist Artur Ramon is an unknown work by the Spanish master

Florence exhibition celebrates the beauty of art that has been broken into pieces

The show at Palazzo Strozzi—a collaboration with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC—focuses on damaged works spanning 4,500 years

British Museum bans visitors from photographing Bayeux Tapestry

Some ticket holders have reportedly been turned away from the exhibition because previous visitors had taken too long taking photos

Floating synagogue installation in Venice destroyed by harsh winds—but artist plans to ‘begin again’

Anna Kamyshan says she intends to “accept what I could not control” after the work, intended to symbolise both uncertainty and hope, was torn apart by a squall

Paul Cezanne’s influence on generations of artists laid bare in Parisian exhibition

A landmark exhibition traces the French artist’s impact on painters ranging from Pablo Picasso to Peter Doig

From a murder case to hidden works: new details about mysterious 17th-century painter Claudia del Bufalo revealed

Research completed ahead of an exhibition in Oslo has shone fresh light on the painter currently known only for a single portrait

This autumn’s standout shows in New York, from Modern architecture in Africa to Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles

Exhibitions celebrating Arthur Jafa and Teresa Margolles, examining the legacy of Orientalism, and more are on the itinerary this season

Perfect posture? MoMA exhibition explores perspectives on body politics in public spaces

Seven contemporary artists respond to Marianne Wex’s groundbreaking 1970s feminist work on body language in the New York show

Why traditional Chinese artist Bada Shanren’s eye-rolling birds are attracting a wave of young visitors, 400 years on

The largest ever show on 17th-century Chinese master Bada Shanren has found unexpected resonance with a new generation, inspiring popular memes and merchandise

Comment | Why museums should tread carefully with audio and video in exhibition spaces

Cultural institutions must avoid falling into the trap of treating art as a visitor attraction

Dutch museum puts all 88 of its Van Gogh paintings on display for the first time in more than two decades

The Kröller-Müller Museum shows its vast collection of Van Gogh pictures in a bold display around the themes of faith, hope and love

Comment | Sunil Gupta’s intimate photographs show how art and activism can work together

The images in the British-Indian artist’s retrospective at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, England, are both tender and powerful

Tate Modern to stage its first Monet exhibition next year

The exhibition, which explores the passage of time across Monet’s oeuvre, is partly sponsored by Anthropic, which sponsored another Monet show earlier this year

Ukrainian Orthodox ‘treasures’ from Kyiv monastery go on view at the V&A in London

The opening of the free display was marked by a symposium discussing British and Ukrainian collaboration to protect and preserve the embattled country's cultural heritage

London gallery brings together 200 works by Iranian artists as part of ‘very special’ joint initiative

Ab-Anbar Gallery is offering a rare access to contemporary Iranian art as sanctions, war and economic pressures isolate the country’s art scene

Renoir show at London’s National Gallery sees record ticket sales ahead of opening

'Renoir and Love', which opens this October in collaboration with the Musee d'Orsay and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has already sold more than 22,000 tickets

Estorick Collection celebrates trailblazing avant-garde photography duo from Trieste

The London institution’s forthcoming exhibition reveals the life and work of the Wulz sisters from northern Italy, who began taking photographs in the 1920s

Marlow Moss, overshadowed De Stijl pioneer, gets first London show in decades

A Jewish non-binary lesbian who fled the Nazis and lost much of her work in a 1944 studio fire, Moss's paintings and sculptures are the subject of a commercial exhibition at Ward Moretti

Review | ‘£1 a minute’: is the British Museum's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition worth it?

Our correspondent Martin Bailey visits the blockbuster show on its first day to see what the experience is really like for the paying public

Portrait of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition sponsor goes on view at British Museum amid scrutiny over ties to IDF

A painting of Igor Tulchinsky is on display within the museum’s blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry show

The Bayeux Tapestry, damaged heritage in Iran, Tschabalala Self’s Trafalgar Square sculpture—podcast

We take a look at the celebrated embroidery as it goes on view at the British Museum, speak to our reporter Sarvy Geranpayeh about the efforts to protect important sites in Iran and hear from Self about her Fourth Plinth commission

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Alexander Morrison and David Clack
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Epstein files reading room and bookmobile begin US tour in Dallas

With stops in Texas, Iowa and Nebraska, the display of the complete Epstein files and works by the artist Maria Farmer hopes to make people think about the sex-abuse case more deeply

Paris exhibition presents Tintoretto alongside his French fanboys

The Musée Jacquemart-André will show works by the Venetian master, who was revered by artists including Fragonard, Cézanne and Delacroix

An exhibition imagines Emmett Till’s life if it hadn’t been brutally cut short

“If Emmett Till Lived”, curated by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, draws from the collection of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Photography to visualise a possible narrative of Till’s life had he not been murdered at age 14

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‘It was a calling’: 25 years after the 11 September attacks, Joel Meyerowitz reflects on his photos of Ground Zero

The legendary photographer spent nine months documenting the cleanup in Lower Manhattan to complete his series “Aftermath”, which is currently on view at Florida’s NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale

Can triennials reduce their environmental impact? St Louis’s Counterpublic hopes to be a model

The event’s organisers are working to reduce the ecological footprint of temporary exhibitions and will share findings from their 2026 edition in a climate impact report