Exhibitions

Hokusai’s late style comes into view at the British Museum

Looking beyond his iconic Great Wave at treasures from the museum's collection and from around the globe

David Smith’s sculptures get some space to breathe at Storm King

This will be the first exhibition to focus on Smith's use of the colour white

'Rediscovered' Degas goes on show in London

Stair Sainty gallery is staging a selling-exhibition around the controversial work

In pictures: St Petersburg’s Winter Palace ransacked after the Bolshevik Revolution

Images from the archives of the Hermitage museum are on show at London's Calvert 22 Foundation for one weekend only

The champion of the new: Kenneth Baker on the Dwan Gallery at Lacma

An exhibition examining Virginia Dwan's Los Angeles and New York galleries reminds our critic of times past

Jonas Burgert’s monster landscape confronts decay, decline and death

22m-wide painting at heart of artist’s Zeitlaich solo show in Berlin

Venture capitalist Jean Pigozzi plans foundation to house huge contemporary African art collection

Works from his 10,000-strong holdings are on show in extensive survey at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris

Political art withers as Mamut 5 opens in Istanbul

All-Turkish art project sees artists retreat to their studios

Fake news! Photographers’ project explores the media in the post-truth era

Fake Newsroom reimagines the 1980s Newsroom project by Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel

Hermitage to loan Scythian treasures for British Museum show

London show will explore one of the great nomadic civilisations of antiquity

Tomás Saraceno collaborates with 7,000 spiders to make largest-ever exhibited web

Argentinian artist’s solo show in Buenos Aires also includes a sound piece played by an arachnid

To break through the Modernist cube: on Lygia Pape at the Met Breuer

The artist's work is part of a broad tendency to escape the bounds of Modernism, but it is complicated by its nostalgic mood

Ashley Bickerton comes full circle with first UK retrospective at Damien Hirst’s gallery

Bali-based artist first met the former YBA in New York in the late 1980s

Major exhibition on the Hajj planned for Abu Dhabi this autumn

Show exploring annual pilgrimage to Mecca due to be held at Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

Storm erupts over Nitsch’s bull slaughter at Tasmanian museum

Campaigners demand axing of performance by Actionist at MONA's Dark Mofo festival

Artist who shot Beyoncé’s maternity photographs takes on Trump in London show

Awol Erizku's exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts tackles “racism and bigotry” in the US

Exhibition featuring four female artists to launch Arab cultural institute in New York

Saudi artist Dana Awartani and Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian of Iran will show works on paper at the new cultural space in lower Manhattan

Saudi Arabian artist’s first US solo show escapes shadow of 9/11

Abdulnasser Gharem says the US show allows him more freedom than he may have in Saudi Arabia

Rarely loaned works from Uzbekistan’s ‘Louvre of the Steppes’ travel to Moscow

Paintings, decorative art and archaeological objects from one of the world’s most remote museums are on view at the Pushkin Museum

Mark Dion brings early 20th-century celebrity art and science team back to life at the Drawing Center

An exhibition offers a fresh look at the work of the Department of Tropical Research

Three to see: Athens

What to take in besides the big Documenta 14 show in the Greek capital

New paintings to be revealed in Jasper Johns’s Royal Academy retrospective

US artist’s first survey in the UK for 40 years will also include key flag and target pieces

Bruce Nauman's sound piece returns to Tate Modern's Turbine Hall

Veteran conceptual artist will also be subject of Artist Rooms show in Tate’s Switch House extension

Politics and performance take centre stage at Documenta 14 in Athens

Quinquennial contemporary art exhibition opens in a different city to Kassel for the first time

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