Exhibitions
Tate chairman Lord Browne writes impassioned personal account for Queer British Art show
Exhibition opens this week with catalogue foreword by former chief executive of BP who kept his sexuality a secret until 2007
Culture on the frontline: Penn Museum shows artefacts curators are fighting to save in Syria and Iraq
Exhibition features ancient objects and Medieval manuscripts, along with contemporary commissions by a Syrian-born artist
Artists who made it a family affair: Madrid, Frankfurt, and Philadelphia explore the creative exploits of collaborative families
Kobro and Strzeminski, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Pierre-Auguste and Jean Renoir's relationships are each subject to in-depth review
When Irving Penn forced his way into a meeting with Picasso: MoMA's new retrospective on the iconic photographer
Costume play and urban decay through the lens of the master
Winckelmann's impact on modern concepts of art history is celebrated in Weimar
The man who wrote art history is remembered 300 years after his birth
Objects from Matisse’s studio travel for first time
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will be the first place outside of France to have this honour
Fondation Louis Vuitton offers a snapshot of contemporary African art
The art of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa make a big impact in Paris
Berlin Kulturforum surveys the long history of alchemy
Spanning 3000 years, the exhibition covers the Egyptian origins of alchemy to its influence on contemporary artists such as Koons
Germany marks the 500th anniversary of Luther’s Theses
Several exhibits are taking place across the country, including the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin
Latest Hugo Boss Prize by Guggenheim awarded to Yi's olfactory object
The 11th edition of this exhibition links nature with nurture
Pictures Generation artist Lawler confronts ‘alternative facts’ at MoMA
As fake news and 'fake news' takes over politics, Louise Lawler's retrospective hits home
Triennale di Milano: art effects empathy as forced migration anchors show
The Restless Earth explores the divisive subject currently preoccupying global media
Saudi Arabian artist Gharem’s first US solo show escapes shadow of 9/11
Political and poignant, Gharem's art reflects on one of the defining moments of the 21st century
British artist makes work out of Isis bullet holes
Piers Secunda's paint casts record the damage at front-line sites in Iraq
How Eduardo Paolozzi channelled the chaos of Modern life
The artist’s relevance to our disruptive digital age shines through in a Whitechapel survey
Tate Modern opens first 'live' show with mist, plants and a rave
Series of exhibitions dedicated to live art will be annual with BMW's support
Marsden Hartley's Maine: what the Modern painter took from his home state—and what he left behind
An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum looks at the profound role Maine played in peripatetic artist's life and work
London exhibitions roundup: Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun at the National Portrait Gallery, Russian art at the Royal Academy and more
What post-internet art looks like in China
New York’s MoMA PS1 is collaborating with the K11 Art Foundation for a show on the regional differences in the digital world and their effect on art
M+ pays tribute to Hong Kong’s gender-bending golden age
Exhibition celebrates the androgynous stars of 1980s and 1990s Cantopop and cinema
In pictures: Zaha Hadid's show in Hong Kong
Exhibition at ArtisTree features designs for leisure club that launched Zaha Hadid’s career
Centre Pompidou broke even on Koons retrospective, Paris court decision reveals
Due to a €1.25m loan fee to the Whitney, the museum did not see many profits from one of their biggest shows ever
Sebastiano's debt to Michelangelo made clear in London show
The follower limps while the master strides through all six galleries in the National Gallery's latest exhibition
Snapshot from a brighter moment: the 2017 Whitney Biennial reflects a pre-Trump America
Many of the works in this year’s exhibition respond to the country’s social tensions, but the pressing question about what art can do during a crisis remains unanswered
Best shows during Art Basel in Hong Kong
Prowl around with Adrian Wong's tiger before singing in a choir at Spring Workshop
Bill Viola reimagines the Renaissance with a retrospective in Florence
In 1974, fresh after graduating from the experimental studies programme at Syracuse University’s visual and performing arts department, Bill Viola moved to Florence to work at Art/Tapes/22, one of the first video art production studios in Europe
When the American dream almost died: on After the Fall at the Royal Academy of Arts
The Great Depression led to range of responses by American artists, whose works are on show in London
Old Master exhibitions not to miss in 2017
Coming to a museum near you: mentors, medals and monarchs… oh my!
Sonic youth: Alexander Calder’s great-grandson Gryphon Rue organises sound art show in Marfa
The exhibition includes the mobile sculpture Clangors that has never left the family’s collection
Chaos at the Louvre as blockbuster Vermeer show draws thousands of visitors
A faulty reservation system, long queues of frustrated ticket holders and threats to strike by security staff mar the opening weeks