Exhibitions

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Center at David Zwirner comes as LGBTQ+ organisations in the US struggle to replace government funding that has been rescinded or withdrawn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

Three medieval ewers shrouded in mystery go on display in York

The jugs include the British Museum’s Asante Ewer, which was made in England but ended up in West Africa, before being looted by the British

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Home, belonging, displacement, community: Artes Mundi exhibitions open across Wales

Works by the six international artists shortlisted for the UK’s biggest contemporary art prize can be seen at five venues, including the National Museum Cardiff

Turner Prize-winning artist Helen Marten stages epic opera during Art Basel Paris

In a departure from her practice, the artist, commissioned by the fashion brand Miu Miu, wrote a libretto for the two-hour long performance

Heavy in more ways than one: Confederate statues hit the road for Los Angeles exhibition

The massive, historic works at the core of “Monuments” were never meant to travel, and moving them has been an enormously complex job

Ragnar Kjartansson's politically charged soap opera—halted by the Russia-Ukraine war—goes on show in Reykjavík

Offering commentary on international relations and soft power, the ambitious video work features an 81-episode recreation of the American TV show, “Santa Barbara”

KAWS to take centre stage at second edition of Manar Abu Dhabi

The exhibition will include 23 works across four locations, all under the theme of The Light Compass

‘Be really great. No alternative’: what Mary Boone has learned from a half-century in the art world

The dealer’s first curatorial project since her release from prison re-examines the art boom of the 1980s, when she cemented her place in the market

Must-see shows during Art Basel Paris 2025

From Turner winner Helen Marten at Palais d’Iéna, to Gerhard Richter at Fondation Louis-Vuitton

Show at the Barnes Foundation charts Henri Rousseau's rise from mockery to acclaim

The Philadelphia survey shows that there was more to this “naive” artist

San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora marks 20 years with a show about Blackness and the cosmos

For the occasion, the institution has also remodelled its lobby and put together a separate exhibition looking back at its history

At a Los Angeles exhibition, contemporary artists face off with decommissioned Confederate statues

The show at the Brick and the Museum of Contemporary Art addresses the US’s fraught racial history—featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments alongside works by Kara Walker, Leonardo Drew, Torkwase Dyson and others

Sound and vision: artists take to the decks for Peter Doig’s Serpentine show

The painter’s latest exhibition includes a vintage sound system, through which Doig and a roster of his famous friends, including Brian Eno and David Byrne, will play their favourite tracks

The greatest Cypriot show in Florida: Ringling Museum opens its first permanent ancient-art gallery

The project has been almost 100 years in the making, when one of the Ringling brothers bought thousands of works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and took them home to Sarasota

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'It's about world-making': Tavares Strachan on his expansive new Lacma exhibition

The artist sheds light onto his interdisciplinary approach to excavating "invisible" histories

Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris opens epic Gerhard Richter retrospective

The 93-year-old German artist is showing 275 works, from his breakthrough photographic paintings of the 1960s to last year’s ink-cloud drawings

At London's Barbican, Lucy Raven chronicles the destruction of a California dam

The artist’s video installation explores devastating impacts on the environment and Indigenous communities

Freedom of expression: Tate exhibition offers an overdue showcase of Nigeria’s Modernist artists

The show’s 300 works reveal how the country’s artists celebrated their culture and challenged colonialism

These artists want your help distracting fossil fuel executives

In their collaborative and solo projects, currently on view at Pioneer Works in New York, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne cheekily empower visitors to fight climate change

Wayne Thiebaud’s first UK show reveals the hidden depths of his deceptively simple paintings

At the Courtauld Gallery, the artist's pastel-coloured works are clearly shown to be still lifes with bite

Indigenous artists transform works at Metropolitan Museum in unsanctioned augmented reality project

The digital interventions by 17 Native artists, launched on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, put pointed twists on works in the museum’s American Wing

With Ruth Asawa, MoMA is set to open its biggest show ever by a woman artist

But the museum is not promoting the show that way—and might not even have registered its record-breaking size

An exhibition in New York City takes on censorship in the art world

As political art becomes increasingly subject to censorship in Trump's America, the free speech-focused organisation Art At A Time Like This organised a poignant show

‘I want to haunt people’: Palestinian artist's London exhibition interrogates myth, history and the erasure of heritage

Opening as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas takes effect, Dima Srouji's show shares stories of a lifetime under occupation

Comment | Museums can't get enough of anniversary exhibitions—but surely there's better ways to serve the public

This year museums are falling over themselves to celebrate Robert Rauschenberg’s 100th birthday. But, asks Julia Halperin, who is it really all for?

An exhibition on the potato in art? Only Van Gogh could pull it off

Vincent once painted “rat’s back” potatoes which, despite their name, are very tasty

Beijing exhibition exploring Xinjiang heritage accused of ‘slipping into cultural appropriation and misrepresentation’

An anonymous collective claims a show held at Maca Art Center, featuring work of the Beijing-based artist Dan Er, conflated the cultures of Xinjiang’s 47 ethnic groups and contained inaccurate generalisations