Exhibitions

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

Fast-rising Montana art organisation to take over century-old theatre

Bozeman-based Tinworks Art will start programming at the historic Rialto Theater with screenings of Matthew Barney’s neo-Western film “Redoubt”

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

After plans for a Robert Lazzarini presentation collapsed, another sculptor has reportedly been picked for the US Pavilion

Art sector could collectively cut over five million tonnes of CO₂ a year, report suggests

Gallery Climate Coalition’s inaugural Stocktake Report shows the difference the art sector can make when it comes to the climate—but the next five years are crucial, says chair Frances Morris

‘The Hay Wain’ to go on show in Constable's home county for the first time

The famed painting will travel to Suffolk next year as part of an exhibition marking 250 years since the artist's birth

Children curate exhibition of Clyfford Still works inspired by their reservation

A hundred students from the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation contributed to Clyfford Still Museum’s new show

Jenny Saville to present unseen Venice-inspired works to coincide with 61st Biennale

An exhibition featuring 30 works by the record-breaking UK artist will open in the lagoon city in March 2026

The British artist David Shrigley wants £1m for piles of old rope

The artist, whose practice is underpinned by humour, has a poke at the art market with his new London exhibition

Rediscovering Roger Fry, the overlooked Bloomsbury artist who helped bring Cézanne and Van Gogh to the world

A new exhibition at Charleston in Firle while display the extraordinary paintings of an art historian who changed public tastes

Torkwase Dyson and Alia Farid among artists commissioned for next Carnegie International

More than a dozen participating artists have been announced for the 2026 edition of the longest running recurring exhibition in North America

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Tania Willard wins Canada’s top contemporary art prize

The British Columbia-based artist, who is a member of the Secwépemc First Nation, described the experience of taking home the C$100,000 Sobey Art Award as “a waking dream”

Tehching Hsieh: ‘I didn’t try to be a superman, my work is not about heroism’

The Taiwan-born artist is best known for a series of year-long performances which subjected his mind and body to near-torturous conditions. As a major retrospective of his work opens in the US, he discusses these remarkable pieces

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Comment | As the US’s 250th anniversary approaches, museums must keep pushing the American story forward

The Phillips Collection was founded amid a president’s calls for a return to “normalcy”, and today the museum is addressing a city and a country grappling with a similar dynamic

Film-maker Wes Anderson to recreate Joseph Cornell’s New York studio in Paris this Christmas

The Gagosian show will feature a dozen of Cornell’s most recognisable works

Five must-see shows this Dublin Gallery Weekend

Running from 6–9 November, the 2025 programme promises “bold, experimental and unapologetic” work

Five must-visit exhibitions during Art Week Tokyo

From Phung-Tien Phan’s everyday objects and Eiki Mori’s anti-authoritarian flags, to human/natural catastrophes, guerilla art and the African diaspora

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Aki Sasamoto invites viewers to her singular ‘life laboratory’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

The artist’s mid-career retrospective traces the evolution of her practice through installations, documentation and live performances

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Exhibition explores two transformative decades of innovative art created in Japan, for the world

The exhibition ‘Prism of the Real’ at Tokyo’s National Art Center challenges the idea of Japan as a fixed national entity

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Long-running Azores art festival blossoms into a biennial

Walk&Talk, launched in 2011 as a celebration of street art, this year hosts an abundance of works by more than 80 artists in nine venues around the island of São Miguel

Must-see Van Gogh exhibitions in 2026

A sneak preview of next year’s major shows, around the world

Catch of the day: Winslow Homer’s delicate watercolours get very rare outing in Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents a display of the artist’s fragile, light-filled works celebrating his mastery of sea, sky and shore

Trajan’s force: Houston exhibition to explore Ancient Rome’s imperial peak

Giant statues and a section of Trajan’s Column flaunt the might and culture of the empire under the successful ruler

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A brush with... Cliff Lauson

The director of exhibitions at London's Somerset House on why he keeps returning to Brian O'Doherty's writing

Rarely seen Matthew Wong works to go on show in Venice

The show will take place at the Palazzo Tiepolo Passi and will include 35 works dating from 2015 to 2019

Performa brings digital doubles, kids reciting animal noises and more to New York

New York’s performance art biennial also features a slate of Lithuanian artists, a reimagined tale of supernatural mourning and a pop-rock supergroup singing protest songs

Twisting tale of ‘Henry VIII’s lost dagger’ to be told in London exhibition

An Ottoman blade once believed to have been owned by the famous monarch is at the heart of Strawberry Hill House’s latest show

New York exhibition seeks to raise funds for LGBTQ+ youth centre

The show benefiting the Ali Forney Center at David Zwirner comes as LGBTQ+ organisations in the US struggle to replace government funding that has been rescinded or withdrawn

The Big Review | 36th Bienal de São Paulo ★★★★

This sometimes muddled show gets lost in its own lyricism, but works by the likes of Marlene Almeida and a performance rescue the endeavour