Exhibitions

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Avast me hearty: much loved National Maritime Museum curator gets touching send off

Visitors to the museum's pirates exhibition may spot ongoing tributes from staffers

April's must-see exhibitions: Matisse, Morris and the design of the 1940s

The Art Newspaper's pick of the top shows to see around the world this month

Guggenheim shows to champion Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, who still ‘needs to be rediscovered by many audiences’

The career survey of the Portuguese abstract painter starts in Venice before moving to Bilbao

Robert Rauschenberg's centenary celebrations are starting with old friends

Rarely seen works and other treats will go on show in worldwide exhibitions, starting in Milan and Munich this April

With ‘Art and Design in the 1940s’, Philadelphia Museum of Art is exploring a decade of two halves

Using the museum's vast archive, this exhibition highlights the impact of war followed by optimism

Henri Matisse’s daughter Marguerite inspires a new angle on the ubiquitous artist

In the year that copyright on the French artist’s work expires, an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris aims to provide new insights into his life and career

From artisans to AI: London exhibition explores the legacy of William Morris

A show in Walthamstow examines the influence of the British artist, designer and political activist through a plethora of objects—many donated by the public

Must-see shows during Art Basel Hong Kong

Filmmaker Wong Kar Wai inspires an outdoor installation, Louise Bourgeois brings rarely-seen sculptures and eight artists from across the region are spotlit

‘Mystery of a masterpiece’: how Van Gogh’s postman portrait ‘disappeared’ from London’s Tate Gallery a century ago

Now owned by New York’s MoMA, the painting of Joseph Roulin is the star loan for a major exhibition opening in Boston

This Devon exhibition explores why, when it comes to the environment, the planetary is not at odds with the local

A racial justice activist by trade, Ashish Ghadiali's show at Thelma Hulbert Gallery is his first as an artist

Whimsy wins the day at Desert X's 2025 edition

Two hours east of Los Angeles, a road trip worth the journey to outdoor projects by Alison Saar, Agnes Denes, Jose Dávila and others

Tutankhamun treasures head to Hong Kong for major Ancient Egypt show

Seven Egyptian venues will loan more than 200 works for the exhibition, including objects from Saqqara tombs

Our pick of the shows to see during Hong Kong art week

From Sin Wai Kin's latest video works to Sarah Sze's first solo exhibition in Asia

Alicja Kwade’s latest work, on show in Hong Kong, looks behind prison bars where time is torture

The Polish artist’s exhibition, Pretopia, draws on the origins and history of a former Victorian jail in the city

In her comeback show, painter Seung Ah Paik renders her body as a map

After stepping away from the art world and starting a family, the artist is having her first solo show in New York with Gratin and showing two new paintings at Art Basel Hong Kong with Bortolami

Tate Modern announces 2026 programme, including Frida Kahlo and Tracey Emin exhibitions

Meanwhile Tate Britain will explore the legacy of Bloomsbury Group members Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and tell the story of the 90s in a show curated by Edward Enninful

‘If necessary, I will shout at him!’: Richard Ansett's images of Grayson Perry go on show at Sotheby's

The selling exhibition will open in London on 28 March, alongside Perry's Wallace Collection show, ‘Delusions of Grandeur’

Jack Whitten at MoMA, Paris Noir at the Pompidou, Arpita Singh at the Serpentine—podcast

Tracing Whitten’s artistic development with the largest ever show of his work, the story of an exhibition exploring the lives of Black artists in France, and Hans Ulrich Obrist on a monumental painting by the esteemed Indian artist Singh

Matisse wanted to buy a Van Gogh portrait—instead, his brother bought a bicycle

Years later, inspired by Vincent’s paintings, the French artist became a “wild beast”

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‘I’m the most content I’ve ever been’: Tracey Emin on having her first museum show in Italy, losing her libido and why she had to take a break from painting

The British artist discusses the way her views on painting and life have shifted over the years as an expansive show of her works opens at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence

Massachusetts museum presents an artist's intimate portrait of a dying glacier

Ohan Breiding’s experimental film and photography, on view at Mass Moca, pay homage to the disappearing Rhône Glacier in Switzerland

You’ve got mail: pathbreaking exhibition on Van Gogh’s postman opens shortly in Boston, then heads to Amsterdam

While painting Joseph Roulin and his wife and children, Vincent wrote in great excitement: “I’ve done the portraits of an entire family”

‘A time travelling conversation about life and art’: the botanical collages of Mary Delany and Georgie Hopton

The exhibition opening at Bath's No.1 Royal Crescent, which pairs works by the 18th-century collagist and the contemporary artist, is part of a series of shows attempting to draw new audiences to the gallery

Roses, oil and beaver secretion: why French museums are appealing to visitors’ sense of smell

In an attempt to create a more immersive exhibition experience, art institutions in France have been employing some unusual scents

New York gallery for Visionary art offers an inner journey in time for the vernal equinox

The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in upstate New York is unveiling the second contemporary art exhibition in its Entheon museum at ‘an auspicious time of year’, according to its founders

As Tate marks Turner’s 250th birthday, his visions of a wild world still elevate, soothe and harrow the soul

A year-long event bonanza will mark the birthday of perhaps the greatest British artist ever

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Gaza’s Eltiqa collective holds show in exile in Dubai

As a retrospective at Jameel Arts Centre gathers together two decades of work from around the globe, a co-founder describes his personal flight to safety

Exhibitions to see during Tefaf Maastricht 2025

Discover the spiritual side of Andy Warhol, a musical rendition of a historic Egyptian uprising, and the uncanny universe of a reluctant Surrealist

Rare 15th-century manuscript is star of exhibition at Château de Chantilly in France

Richly coloured and decorated work is going on show after conservation, partly funded by the Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund