Exhibitions
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
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
‘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
‘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
‘This is how art history is built’: unprecedented Mumbai exhibition unites works of Indian and Arab Modernism
The Barjeel collection in Sharjah has loaned works to the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation for the first-ever show to examine 20th-century art of both regions
William Nicholson, often overlooked in favour of his more famous son, is coming out of the shadows
Head of a family of artists including the more famous Ben, a Pallant House Gallery exhibition shows this father is ripe for reassessment
Live conservation reveals hidden surprises of unfinished Spencer painting
“Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta” is the centre piece of a new exhibition at the Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, where the artist spent most of his life
An eerie Renaissance masterpiece, fresh from a four-year restoration process, goes on show in Berlin
Ambiguity and subtlety have returned to the Carpaccio work, following the removal of grime and old varnish
In his own words: Antwerp museum uses AI to recreate Magritte's voice
A 1938 lecture given by the notoriously tight-lipped Surrealist can be heard as part of the exhibition “Magritte. La ligne de vie”
Climate report from Getty’s PST Art programme urges cultural organisations to confront exhibitions’ impacts
The report is a significant step toward addressing the environmental sustainability of art world activities




























