Exhibitions

Visions of 18th-century France: how the Goncourt brothers taught America about Rococo

A focused show in Washington, DC, looks at why US collectors had a passion for French painting

Five of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers to be reunited on Facebook

Willem van Gogh, the great grandson of Theo, the artist’s brother, will also speak in the presentation

Works by Rachel Whiteread and Cornelia Parker to be shown for the first time in Saudi Arabia

British Council exhibition organised by six emerging Saudi women curators breaks new ground

Anglo(art)phile Hilton Als to organise series of contemporary shows at the Yale Center for British Art

American author and critic has chosen painters Celia Paul, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Peter Doig for successive solo exhibitions starting next year

Lost Keith Vaughan photographs go on show in London, capturing illicit love at a time when homosexuality was still illegal

Images, to be shown at Austin Desmond Fine Art, depict British artist with group of male friends on holiday at Pagham Beach in West Sussex

Can graphic design save lives?

Wellcome Collection show will focus on designers’ work during times of war and plague

Folkestone Triennial returns to the Kentish coast

The town has been slowly blossoming into a hub for art since the establishment of the triennial, and the fourth edition hopes to continue this trend

Pacific Standard Time LA/LA: five must-see exhibitions

More than 70 institutions are presenting shows in the second edition of PST across Los Angeles

Richard Deacon fills the Royal Academy’s ‘sculpture ledge’

Works by more than 20 Academicians installed in Sackler Galleries in time for Matisse show

Edinburgh Art Festival: artists look to Maori traditions, 19th-century botany and jellyfish

Jupiter Artland’s new permanent piece by Pablo Bronstein joins two ten-metre-high pavilions in a Gothic and Chinoiserie style

Paris exhibition and auction throw spotlight on refugee NGOs in France

Works by Cindy Sherman and Glenn Ligon to go on show at the Palais de Tokyo and on the block in Christie’s sale

Artists including Mona Hatoum design prayer rugs for San Francisco show

Visitors will be able to sit on 36 wool rugs arranged across the floor of a former interfaith chapel

What would Oscar Wilde have made of the fuss? On Queer British art at Tate Britain

The museum celebrates the artists who had to hide their sexuality

Personal recordings immerse visitors in lives of Modern British artists

The Lightbox gallery features the voices of artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi and Elisabeth Frink

Major Modern Russian collection heads to Fondation Louis Vuitton

After Shchukin show, private Paris museum cements Franco-Russian relationship with exhibition of blue-chip works bought by Morozov brothers

Tate Impressionist blockbuster reunites six of Monet’s Houses of Parliament pictures

UK entrepreneur Andrew Brownsword is lending a Sisley painting of the Thames

Depression and radicalisation: images reveal plight of displaced male refugees

Edward Jonkler’s photographs, on view in London, show men held in limbo at centres in Europe and the Middle East

Catherine Opie turns her lens on David Hockney, Gillian Wearing and Isaac Julien

Debut show at Thomas Dane Gallery includes new works from US photographer’s Portraits and Landscapes series

V&A celebrates the designers who made the most of plywood

From surfboards to a Second World War bomber, new show charts the rise of the humble material

Emotions run high in Emma Hart's Whitechapel Gallery exhibition

Artist spent six months in Italy studying psychology and maiolica for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women

Manifesta 12 to provide ‘blueprint’ for development of Sicilian capital

Urban study by Rem Koolhaas's studio part of biennial that will serve as a platform for social change

Tate Modern exhibition aims to be a 'turning point' for African-American artists

Soul of a Nation features works by more than 60 black artists who shaped the civil rights era

Parviz Tanavoli's Lions of Iran exhibition gets green light after Hassan Rouhani’s victory

Almost 1,000 guests attended the opening night to support the show, organised by Iran's leading artist 

Adjusted to fit: on Louise Lawler at MoMA

Lawler's work proves that conditions of display have a heavy bearing on how we see art and its history

Whitechapel Gallery to host first major Thomas Ruff retrospective in London

Photographs from 1980s will also go on show at the National Portrait Gallery to coincide with the autumn survey

Royal Academy of Arts to stage its greatest spectacle

Show in 2018 will celebrate 250 years of the world’s most prestigious open exhibition

Muholi defies stigma and stereotypes at the Stedelijk

Around 80 pictures spanning over a decade are on display in Amsterdam

Forged in war, revolution and turmoil, works head for Les Rencontres d’Arles

The annual photography festival assembles works that open up doors closed by political turbulence