Exhibitions

Lest we forget: Ai Weiwei’s first show in Turkey is a meditation on refugee crisis

Chinese artist’s biggest exhibition to date uses porcelain as a way of bridging Turkey’s historic connections with the East

Elusive Scythians brought to life through show of archaeological discoveries

British Museum exhibition organised with Hermitage traces history of a culture with no written records

Mapping out Pacific Standard Time's second act

How do you organise an event with more than 70 exhibitions?

LGBTQnews

First-ever museum show celebrating queer Asian art opens in Taiwan

Exhibition marks country's May ruling setting stage to legalise gay marriage

Grandma Moses: behind the folksy images, a canny operator

An exhibition in Vermont of the work of the early Outsider artist looks behind the icon of Yankee charm

Richard Long to create epic mud painting for Lisson in the Strand

Gallery's anniversary show in London to include Dan Graham's largest pavilion so far

Three to see: London

From Giacometti’s reunited Women in Venice to an exploration of bird nests and egg collecting

First major UK survey of Oceanic art comes to the Royal Academy in 2018

London institution will also host shows on Klimt and Schiele, Charles I and Tacita Dean as part of its 250th anniversary year

MoMA comes to Paris—why the Fondation Louis Vuitton is partnering with New York’s mega-museum

New exhibition will look at the influence of the Manhattan institution as a “beacon for Modern art in the West”

Female artists get the word out on political action with Times Square project

Artists Carrie Mae Weems and Wangechi Mutu have created new works for the show

Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe coming to the Victoria & Albert Museum

Show featuring Mexican artist’s distinctive clothing, hidden for 50 years, is among highlights of museum’s 2018 programme

V&A Pink Floyd tickets to rise to a gobsmacking £30

Museum says price increase for show’s last weeks will cover extra costs from extended run

Documentareview

Boom and bust in Kassel and Athens

Documenta 14 sets itself in opposition to neoliberalism and the art market — but will it pave the way to greater excess?

Protest is one thing, destroying art is another

Sam Durant’s Scaffold is a powerful work that should provoke anger about the death penalty, not the artist’s ethnicity

Private View: Jordan Casteel, Leon Polk Smith and Jack Whitten

Noteworthy exhibitions at commercial galleries, from emerging names to forgotten talents

Immigration politics loom large in Pacific Standard Time

Shows about the collapse of borders between North and South America now face a new reality

How Pacific Standard Time plans to reframe film and video history

A group of exhibitions and programmes to artists from across the Americas

Yayoi Kusama’s critical friend, Donald Judd

The Japanese artist's Infinity Net paintings to go on show at US artist's Soho home, 101 Spring Street

Featuresfeature

On the side of the angels

Vittorio Scarpati made a series of bold drawings in a New York hospital before he died of Aids, which also claimed the life of his wife, the writer and actress Cookie Mueller. Teeming with “piles of angels”, Scarpati’s drawings are being shown for the first time in 25 years in London this month

Jenny Holzer: Words of Conflict

As three new commissions open this year in the UK and Abu Dhabi, the US artist reflects on the continued dominance of war as a theme in her work and says she longs for Trump to be “in the past tense”

Doris Salcedo’s latest work: a memorial for drowned migrants

The water piece will fill Madrid's Palacio de Cristal, which is run by the Reina Sofia Museum

Why Olafur Eliasson’s yellow room is coming to London's National Gallery

Visitors will experience monochrome world like the one Medieval monks wanted in “minimalist monasteries”

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