Exhibitions

Many strategies for survival: Barbara Rose on painting after Postmodernism

Rumors of the death of painting have been greatly exaggerated

Zorionak! Guggenheim Bilbao to celebrate 20th birthday with jam-packed programme

Major exhibitions in 2017 by Bill Viola, Georg Baselitz and French avant-garde painters mark year of festivities <br> <br>

British Museum marks 50th anniversary of Sexual Offences Act with LGBTQ show

Exhibition will shine a light on same-sex relationships using objects dating from antiquity to today<br>

Alphonse Mucha's grandson sues Prague to stop Asian tour of Slav Epic

Artist’s heir fears trip to Japan and China could harm the 20 monumental paintings

Make art but can’t travel? Yorkshire museum asks artists to email their tech-based works instead

The project was inspired by the experience of working with artists who struggle to obtain visas and those who are too fearful to even apply

Gordon Parks, photographer who chronicled African-American life, the focus of shows in Washington, DC and Berlin

The National Gallery has acquired 173 of his pictures to its collection, while a survey of his work starts its tour of Germany

Britain’s ‘art lending library’ finds four new homes

Arts Council Collection of nearly 8,000 works is planning 24 exhibitions with regional partner galleries

Three to see: London

From William Kentridge’s cacophonous contraptions to a 3-million-year-old readymade at the British Museum <br> <br>

Who picks up the garbage after the revolution? On maintenance as art

A Queens Museum retrospective of Mierle Laderman Ukeles looks at how the artist made daily chores into art

Three to see: New York

Explore art history with Kerry James Marshall and bask in the pure positivity of Mark Leceky

Dubai Design Week gets under way with more than 150 events

This year's second edition has plenty on offer, from national pavilions to algae-eating drones

Luc Tuymans’s Ensor show at the Royal Academy plays the Trump card

Belgian painter sees echoes of today’s populist movements in his compatriot’s grotesque folkloric imagery

It only took 200 years: Prado stages its first show dedicated to a female artist

Exhibition of work by still-life pioneer Clara Peeters travels from her native Antwerp

Ai Weiwei returns to New York with four solo gallery shows

The Chinese activist-artist, who lived in the city during the 1980s, comes back with new tree sculptures and an installation of cast-off clothing from refugee camps

Bedwyr Williams's futuristic city stands out on Artes Mundi prize shortlist

Cardiff-based international competition focuses on the human condition

Three to see: London

William Eggleston's sumptuous portraits, two million pennies at the Turner Prize and the source of art revealed in south London<br>

What immortal hand or eye? Gallery dedicated to William Blake opens in San Francisco

California bookseller John Windle has built a 300-strong collection of the British Romantic poet’s art and writing

Foam machines, scented curtains and cherry pips feature in first Hepworth Prize for Sculpture show

Four artists have been shortlisted for new £30,000 award, from Turner-Prize-nominated Helen Marten to veteran Filipino sculptor David Medalla

Three to see: New York

From Charlotte Brontë’s letters to Robert Morris's plywood sculptures, we've got you covered on what to see in the city and beyond

Kerry James Marshall makes his picks from the Met’s collection

The artist said he felt like a kid in a candy store when selecting works from the encyclopaedic museum, including one of his favourite paintings, Ingres’ Odalisque in Grisaille

Pierre Huyghe’s eerie system fascinates in Tino Sehgal’s Paris show

Spiders, flies and ants drive growth of human cancer cells in flickering light of basement installation

The Modern art Stalin did not want Russians to see

Sergei Shchukin’s holdings, split up by the Soviets, are reunited at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris

Kader Attia wins France's prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize

All four shortlisted artists share a dual cultural identity—a clear political statement by the jury at a time of rising nationalism and tensions over immigration

Three to see: London

From Chaimowicz’s dark disco delights to the long shadow of influence cast by Caravaggio <br>

Land ho: the flourishing of Flemish landscape painting

An exhibition in Dresden chronicles the emergence and variance of landscapes from Flanders

Three to see: New York

From a weird and wild ride through past presidential elections, to the calming canvases of Agnes Martin

Modern art’s Magnificent Seven: Emmanuel Di Donna opens new gallery on Madison Avenue with show of abstract masterworks

Inaugural display includes paintings by Vassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still

Tino Sehgal—and 300 performers—take over the Palais de Tokyo in Paris

After Philippe Parreno in 2013, the British-born, Berlin-based artist gets "carte blanche" to fill the entirety of the vast contemporary art space