Exhibitions

Venice Biennale: triumphs and talking points

Leading figures give their impressions of Christine Macel’s main show, Viva Arte Viva, and their pick of the national pavilions

Beyeler to reunite Giacometti and Bacon

Swiss museum to stage show on the artists, who first met in the early 1960s, in time for Art Basel in 2018

Sculpture Projects Münster 2017: the essential things to see

Sculpture is redefined in the once-every-ten-year German festival

Ancient China: a crossroads to the world

A landmark exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is powered by new scholarship and archaeological discoveries

Documenta 14 to collaborate on show in Luanda

Exhibition in Angolan capital will feature artists of African descent who are participating in the German quinquennial

Documenta 14 in Kassel: an instrument of soft power

Artistic director Adam Szymczyk builds on highly-political themes of earlier opening in Athens

Queens Museum to build New York’s unrealised urban designs—in miniature

A Kickstarter-funded exhibition will see some of the city’s most ambitious architectural projects installed on the Panorama

What Malevich and Judd had in common

Exhibition at Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich reunites the artists' works for first time since 1994

Trust and risk: why Documenta and Münster are the artists’ favourite shows

This year’s German exhibitions may come round far less frequently than the biennials, but their influence on artists is immeasurably greater

Münster: reflective art in a neo-Medieval Disneyland

The fifth edition of the sculpture show, held every ten years, corrects a gender imbalance but continues a melancholy tradition, according to its chief curator

Greece is the word: what curators made of Documenta 14 in Athens

Nicolaus Schafhausen, Stefanie Rosenthal, Clara Kim and Katharine Stout on the good and the bad of the German quinquennial

Museums in the US and Canada show their Pride in June

Institutions are celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month with exhibitions and events

From Athens to Kassel: Documenta on the move

The second part of the 14th edition of the show, in its familiar German home, will pick up on the themes explored in the Greek capital

All about Adam: a profile of Documenta’s activist director

Adam Szymczyk’s decision to open Documenta 14 in Athens is just the latest bold gesture from a curator unafraid of controversy and fêted by artists

Vermeer and the masters of genre painting

The Dutch painter and his contemporaries could not resist the temptation to improve one another's compositions

Andres Serrano’s contentious Piss Christ to be shown for the first time in Trump’s America

The US artist’s Torture series is also included in the Texas show—alongside a large-scale portrait of the President

First major retrospective of Marina Abramovic in Europe opens in Denmark

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in in Humlebæk will stage reperformances of some of her most famous pieces

Long-neglected portraits by Cézanne arrive in the d'Orsay

This will be the first exhibition dedicated to the great master's portraits since 1910

Giovanni da Rimini's images of religious splendour shine in the National Gallery

A Renaissance masterpiece is unveiled, but its mystery remains unsolved

A long history of scholarship drives survey of Raphael’s drawings currently exhibited at the Ashmolean

Debate over attribution has marked modern scholarship on this great master, bringing nuance to the Oxford show

Rijksmuseum explores how botany helped give birth to photography

The New Realities of 19th-century photography shows key developments in scientific and artistic endeavour

De Stijl in the Netherlands: a round-up

Three excellent exhibitions explore different approaches to Neoplasticism

Manchester gets first comprehensive retrospective of Wyndham Lewis in 40 years

The founder of the Vorticist movement has often been under-appreciated or misunderstood, which the Imperial War Museum North seeks to rectify

Morgan Library explores how the Grand Siècle in Rome inspired the drawings of Poussin and Claude

The exhibition brings together more than 50 works created by French artists living abroad

Perrotin to inaugurate Tokyo gallery with Soulages show

The 97-year old artist won prestigious Japanese Praemium Imperiale prize in 1992