Exhibitions

How an art work could literally save lives in Syria

Danish collective SUPERFLEX's hospital equipment installation will be shipped to war-torn country after exhibition

Richard Mosse calls for humanity and solidarity over refugee crisis

Irish artist’s video installation of people fleeing war-torn countries is now on show at London's Barbican

Cosmic collectors: how the Guggenheim family came into its art

An exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York looks at how the collection was shaped

Whitechapel Gallery retrospective reveals unfamiliar aspects of Eduardo Paolozzi’s career

“Godfather” of Pop is best-known in London for his Tottenham Court Road mosaics, which went back on show earlier this month

Bern and Bonn schedule first exhibitions of Cornelius Gurlitt’s art for November

Bern to focus on “degenerate” art while Bonn focuses on Nazi looting in show that will move on to Berlin

Egypt's Surrealists come out of the shadows

Exhibition at Reina Sofía in Madrid, which opened at the Pompidou last year, is first major survey of Art et Liberté group

‘Illegal’ immigrant artists take their protest fashions to the streets

New York's White Box gallery is organising a runway performance to highlight the precarious conditions of undocumented migrants

Russian billionaire’s new Venice gallery to open with show of Soviet and contemporary art

Inaugural exhibition will include work by Rodchenko, Tillmans and a new Barbara Kruger commission

Nathan Coley sets fire to (a tiny) Tate Modern for London show

Glaswegian artist's works gain pertinence at a time when cultural institutions are being targeted by extremists

Root of an unfocus: how Merce Cunningham developed common time into an artistic strategy

With John Cage and others, the choreographer invented a new way of thinking about movement

Curators resist pressure to hold sculpture show in Münster more often

German city debates whether to stage once-a-decade festival every five years

Kiev exhibition that questioned the results of Maidan revolution vandalised

Video shows attackers beating a gallery guard and tearing posters, and walls spray-painted with graffiti stating Mouthpiece of Moscow and Glory to Ukraine

Renaissance-influenced artist Joe Ramirez projects 'animated paintings' onto gold

With backing from Wim Wenders, first presentation of “Gold Projections” coincides with Berlin Film Festival

Rare group of Max Ernst bird paintings to go on show in London for first time in 30 years

Sotheby’s is organising the non-selling show to coincide with its Surrealist sale

We the People: Nari Ward to re-create monumental work in New York

Visitors can donate their own shoelaces during the live installation this month at the New-York Historical Society

Artist’s portrait of elephant killed by poachers brings attention to the cost of the ivory trade

Wendy Maruyama’s wildLIFE Project continues its US tour to San Francisco this month

Bret Easton Ellis: Trump should be credited with destroying Washington establishment

Paintings by American Psycho author and artist Alex Israel take on new political meaning in Gagosian show in London

Building anew: how Constructivism sought to remake the world

In the centenary year of the Bolshevik Revolution, exhibitions survey the art of the Russian avant-garde and put its radicalism in context

Wrong in the right way: Kenneth Goldsmith on why Picabia’s false Modernism feels so true

The French avant-garde artist’s work was prescient about our era of “post-truth” politics and culture

How US museums are celebrating Black History Month, coast to coast

A small selection of some of the many events and exhibitions planned for February

Hockney’s early prints make London debut ahead of Tate retrospective

British artist turned to draughtsmanship when painting was too pricey

Art world reels from Trump’s immigration ban

New policies on course to undermine exhibitions and exchange programmes

Trolls take over Icelandic pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Artist Egill Sæbjörnsson says a pair of man-eating creatures will shape the show

New retrospective in Paris for Pissarro, the first of the Impressionists

This will be one of three exhibitions on Pissarro in Europe this year, providing unparalleled access to the artist's greatest works

Tate Britain banks on David Hockney retrospective to pull in the crowds

More than 150 works will be on display, from those executed early in his career to some whose paint is still wet

Sean Scully’s grand finale opens in China

Abstract artist enjoys critical acclaim with two career surveys in as many years

Hadid’s paintings take on a life of their own

Virtual-reality experience is the result of a collaboration between the late architect’s studio, the Serpentine and Google

Philip Guston gets first Venice museum show

Accademia exhibition will open for this year's Venice Biennale, more than 50 years after the artist represented the US