Exhibitions

Two-venue Tate show highlights the surreal art of Cornish occultist Ithell Colquhoun

The largest-ever show of Colquhoun’s work, including more than 170 paintings, drawings and writings, will open in St Ives before travelling to London—a first for the two Tate venues

Liliane Lijn: the US artist on meeting the Surrealists and how ski wax changed everything for her

Lijn's career has taken her from hanging out with artists in 1950s Paris to observing cutting edge scientific research at Cern. A clutch of shows, coupled with the imminent publication of her memoir, also demonstrate the role of language in her work

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Tom Hanks reverts to type for New York exhibition

Highlights from the Hollywood actor's 300-strong collection of typewriters will go on show in New York state

Railroads of the American West provide the subjects, sounds and instruments in new musical performance

The artists and composers Raven Chacon and Guillermo Galindo will debut the final movement in their collaborative performance and graphic musical score

Early Palestinian photographer's exhibition at Tel Aviv museum follows renewed study of her work

Karimeh Abbud, one of the earliest female Palestinian photographers, comes into greater focus in her biggest show to date in Israel

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‘I found energy from somewhere very deep’: artist Alexis Soul-Gray on navigating the gallery scene through grief and motherhood

The UK-based artist is entering a new chapter having signed with Bo Lee and Workman in the trendy British town of Bruton—but the journey has not been easy

Newly attributed Lavinia Fontana painting discovered at auction to go on display in London

The oil on copper miniature portrait, originally believed to be by Bronzino, is the subject of an exhibition at its former home—Strawberry Hill House

German president condemns Russia’s ‘war against Ukraine’s culture’ as evacuated works go on show in Berlin

The exhibition at the Gemäldegalerie, open to the public from today, shows 60 works brought to Berlin for safety from the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art

New Orleans triennial positions the city as a model for a precarious, adaptive future

The sixth edition of Prospect New Orleans, co-curated by Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson, finds artists looking to the distant past, urgent present and possible futures for archetypes of resilience

'Frank conversations on certain topics can lead to real prison terms': Russian artist duo finds haven on Long Island

Dmitry Okruzhnov and Maria Sharova, who opposed Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, are now working from a New York studio

Emmanuel Perrotin to launch first London gallery with works by photographer JR

The French image maker will show new works from ‘Children of Ouranos’ series

Singapore Art Week: art off the beaten track

As well as the big museums and fairs, Singapore Art Week gives smaller projects a chance to shine

In partnership withNational Arts Council Singapore for Singapore Art Week

‘The market is still the domain of famous male artists’: Guerrilla Girls open their first commercial gallery show in New York

The feminist art collective’s commercial debut in their hometown, at Hannah Traore Gallery, is intended to introduce their activist work to a new generation

Buyers can name their price at gallery that challenged artists to create hard-to-sell works

Haul Gallery in Brooklyn, which recently transitioned to a non-profit model, is offering conceptually or physically difficult works for as little as $1 apiece

Ancient Roman statue of Athena goes on public view for first time in more than 200 years

The Halsted A&A Foundation is displaying its recent acquisition at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago starting 25 January

Five shows to see: we pick the highlights of Singapore Art Week

Taking place from 17-26 January, the week includes everything from museum shows to one-off pop-ups

Nashville show looks at how the Impressionists and others depicted food production in 19th century France

The exhibition at the Frist Art Museum includes works by the likes of Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Gauguin

Everyday defiance: Singapore Art Museum exhibition explores the role of ‘mundane’ art as a response to adversity

The show in the museum's new collections gallery includes work by 20 artists from Southeast and East Asia

‘I like people who dare’: Peter Hujar’s moving and monumental photography comes to London

The complete range of the US photographer’s work—from rural Orange County to queer New York—is going on show at Raven Row

Alexej Jawlensky, friend of Wassily Kandinsky and Der Blaue Reiter artist, rides again in new show

An exhibition of the Russian artist's work at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark will include examples of his obsessively painted single face series

The self-styled ‘first English abstract artist’ Paule Vézelay gets an overdue exhibition

The show at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol will explore the little-known artist’s remarkable life and career

Paris show reveals Francis Picabia's late-in-life change of direction

An exhibition at Hauser & Wirth explores how the master of genre hopping embraced an entirely different style during his final decade

‘The event as spectacle’: how Weegee’s photographs were more than just documentations of life

An exhibition at the International Center of Photography will explore the larger-than-life photographer’s ability to create sensational images, whether photographing the hoodlums of New York or stars of Hollywood

Tadek Beutlich, from Second World War soldier to master weaver in the picturesque village of Ditchling

An exhibition at the Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft untangles the life and work of the Polish-born artist who reinvented craft weaving as an art form

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En suite art? London exhibition opens in an Airbnb

East End show highlights the ‘commodification of the domestic’ say the organisers

The Year Ahead 2025: market predictions, the big shows and openings—podcast

From the reimagined Frick Collection to Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern

‘We deserved a better time on this earth’: New York’s Palo Gallery presents Palestinian photography

Three artists living in exile collaborated on the exhibition "Longing: In Between Homelands"

National Gallery in London’s Van Gogh blockbuster to open all night as final day approaches

The exhibition, which will host a 24-hour opening during its closing weekend, has been one of the most visited in the museum’s history