Exhibitions

When Glenn met Vincent: Arles exhibition compares ‘obsessive’ artists

Bice Curiger, the artistic director of the Fondation Vincent van Gogh, explains how a contemporary painter stacks up against a Modern master

London's best alternative photography events to zoom in on this weekend

With Photo London in full swing, the capital is awash with photography, from a 24-hours festival in Peckham to a group show in the India Club

Kienholz’s Five Car Stud goes back on view in Milan

The brutal installation about racist violence continues to have an impact 45 years later

Ai Weiwei unveils new works highlighting plight of refugees

Chinese artist's show at Cycladic Museum of Art in Athens includes a flag depicting drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi

The French connection: on Windows on the City at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The show of Modern masterpieces from the Guggenheim Museum in New York takes a pick-and-mix approach to art of Paris

A major minor master: Jonathan Brown on Anthony van Dyck at the Frick Collection

The artist had his triumphs, but he never fulfilled his greatest ambitions

New light shed on craftsmen who captured sea life in glass

Corning Museum restores fragile models by father and son glassblowers Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka

British Museum dips its toes into world of underwater archaeology

London institution’s new show explores Egypt’s lost cities<br>

Robert Rauschenberg's art to make Beijing comeback after 31 years

His 305-meter long installation to go on show three decades after artist visited China

Deal sealed to exhibit Tehran art collection in Berlin

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art collection to be shown in German capital from December

Mona Hatoum at Tate Modern: the art of war in our time

Lebanon-born artist tackles world politics but the intimate and the personal shine brightest

Work of constant change: Orit Gat on Ed Atkins at The Kitchen

The artist's latest work is fragmented and difficult, but also engrossing and rewarding

Huang Yong Ping ‘occupies’ Grand Palais with 250m-long snake for Monumenta commission

New work unveiled on the weekend also features the oversized bicorne hat of Napoleon Bonaparte

Don’t bank on it: New York artist’s memorial to financial failures comes to Wall Street

Michael Mandiberg has recorded the logos of more than 500 banks that closed during the recession for his installation FDIC Insured

Germany rebuilds historic Cuban ties with flurry of art exhibitions

Fidel Castro visited former-GDR city of Rostock where latest show opened this week

What your pants say about you

Our underwear reveals a lot about our changing perceptions of sex and gender, according to the V&A's latest show

Lenin’s four-tonne head goes on show in Medieval Berlin Fortress

Monument of communist revolutionary was dug up for new permanent exhibition on statues of past political leaders

Gardens of earthly delight: how Eden was recreated by Roberto Burle Marx

The Brazilian designer created landscapes that resemble abstract paintings

Creating value around women artists: the chief curator’s view

Moca’s Helen Molesworth explains why the gender imbalance in museums persists and what can be done to remove it

Art Wuzhen is a model show for smaller Chinese cities

Scenic water town launches ambitious exhibition

Giacometti and Klein perform unlikely duet for Gagosian

Exhibition's curator draws links between the artists who were "obsessed" with Egyptian art and the cave paintings of Lascaux<br>

What does a female artist have to do to get a major solo show?

Statistics show that less than a third of the biggest exhibitions in the US go to women <br>