Exhibitions

Leila Zelli foregrounds Iranian women’s protest movement at the Toronto Biennial

The artist’s videos and installations reinterpret acts of resistance staged in the streets and on social media

Everything is elemental: the Art Week Tokyo Focus exhibition

Guest curator Mami Kataoka tells the stories behind five highlights of her cosmic-inspired show

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‘Transformative encounters’: Henry Moore seen through the prisms of Ancient Greece and Georgia O’Keeffe

A recent exhibition in Athens highlighting Moore’s concern with light and the history of sculpture is part of a broader mission to shed new light, gradually, on his life and work

Montclair Art Museum reimagines its Native collection

“Interwoven Power” uses a fresh curatorial lens to change the way viewers engage with Indigenous art

Tate exhibition celebrates a riotous decade in British photography

From tumultuous political events to countercultural visibility, Tate Britain show examines the 1980s through the work of Martin Parr, Chris Killip and many others

Van Gogh’s finest ‘London drawing’ was not done in the UK, but later in Amsterdam

The sketch of Austin Friars Church throws fresh light on Vincent’s draftsmanship, suggesting he was even more of a late developer as an artist

Back and forth in time: the Art Week Tokyo video programme

'Between Contrail and Mountains' brings together works by 13 international artists evoking 'different ways of relating to our life here on Earth'

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Leonardo Cartoon was ‘presentation drawing’ in Florence commission bid

Leonardo’s largest known drawing was hung with the Mona Lisa in his studio, says Per Rumberg, the curator of the Royal Academy’s Florentine Old Masters exhibition opening this month

The Guggenheim presents a new view of Orphism—the movement that time forgot

Featuring 82 works by 26 artists, this New York show tells the story of the short-lived style and its main protagonists

Sameer Farooq’s library of flatbreads at the Toronto Biennial serves as a map of the city’s diasporic communities

The artist has been researching flatbreads and tandoors, the community ovens where they are often baked, in countries around the world since 2020

From Titian’s ostrich to Leonardo’s wild man: the Royal Collection explores how drawing influenced the Italian Renaissance

In a new exhibition at the King's Gallery, over 160 works will explore how drawing “became the laboratory” for the new Renaissance style

Comment | In the run up to the US election, Boston's Museum of Fine Art is hopeful about art's role in a democratic future

The museum's latest exhibition explains and scrutinises democracy through objects spanning 2,500 years

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Artists Kim Schoen and Kim Schoenstadt make light of mistaken identities in collaborative show

This Venn diagram of a gallery exhibition leans into the ongoing confusion of the Los Angeles artists

Steve McQueen delves into family history at Dia Chelsea

Works in the artist’s show at the New York institution include a video installation in which he narrates a story of racially motivated violence told by his father against images of the actor Al Jonson in blackface

The Big Review | 14th-century Siena is magnificent at the Met ★★★★★

Reuniting the surviving sections of the city’s altarpiece marvel is just the start of this important, beautifully staged show at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sophie Calle on oversharing, exploring death and the rules that govern her boundary-pushing practice

Calle is famous for her examination of people’s personal lives—and her own—in an almost voyeuristic way. But, despite the title of her latest show, 'Overshare', she says her work exposes less than many people do on social media

Yu Hong’s moment in the Western market has finally arrived

Painter’s first London gallery show debuts three decades after she helped define China’s “New Generation”

Prizesnews

American Civil War-era bread and heroic migration: Deutsche Börse Prize nominees announced

Four international artists have made the shortlist for the award, worth £30,000

An exhibition at the pyramids of Giza invites artists and visitors to become modern-day archaeologists

In its fourth iteration, Forever is Now continues its tradition of installing contemporary works next to ancient sites

An exhibition on reproductive health raises urgent questions—and the spectre of self-censorship

The touring exhibition “Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency” features works that unflinchingly address infringements on bodily autonomy; its run has been cut short after a university gallery withdrew from its leg of the tour

Jenny Saville and Edvard Munch headline 2025 programme at London's National Portrait Gallery

The gallery will also bring Cecil Beaton’s fashion photography and cult magazine The Face to the fore

Art Basel at the Grand Palais, Guillermo Kuitca at Musée Picasso and Małgorzata Mirga-Tas at Tate St Ives — podcast

We find out what happened when the art world descended on Paris for Art Basel, speak to Guillermo Kuitca about his new work for Musée Picasso and hear from Małgorzata Mirga-Tas about June, her work soon to go on display at Tate St Ives

A testament to the power of Pueblo ceramics and community-based curation

The exhibition “Grounded in Clay”, opening this month at the MFA Houston, was co-curated by the more than 60 members of the Pueblo Pottery Collective

The unmissable museum shows during Art Basel Paris

From a canon-reshaping survey of Surrealism to an unearthing of the zombie myth

Rule-based artist Mark Manders is ready to let loose at Art Basel Paris

The Dutch artist’s famously restrained work will feature at the fair and major European dealer and institutional shows opening in October

‘We are down here fighting for our lives’: Texas exhibition highlights crackdowns on reproductive healthcare and abortion access

Focusing on works by artists with ties to the American South, “Is It Real?” raises awareness and funds for reproductive rights for communities on the front lines