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
Tate pairs off Weimar-era artists Dix and Sander for a discussion about the failed republic
The two exhibitions will evoke a dialogue about their shared themes
Good things come in small packages: 16th-century microsculptures at the Rijksmuseum
These tiny masterpieces are both pious and playful
Grayson Perry draws inspiration from Brexit—and The Art Newspaper—for Serpentine show
Will it be the Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever?
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
Lucas van Leyden gets an oeuvre-spanning exhibit at the Pinakothek der Moderne
The Dutch engraver who influenced Rembrandt shines in Munich
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





























