Exhibitions

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

British Museum dreams big with new show of American prints

Exhibition next year reflects on the impact of the US through works by artists such as Ed Ruscha and Robert Rauschenberg

Vuitton foundation's Russian loan show overshadowed as Putin cancels French trip

Russian and French presidents were due to visit exhibition of Modern masterpieces from Shchukin collection

To recover history from peril: on the dealer Paul Rosenberg and the Nazi seizure of Modern art

An exhibition on Rosenberg in Belgium focuses on the story of his Paris gallery and the recovery of his looted art

Three to see: London

Picasso’s portraits, AbEx’s big guns and Parreno’s Turbine Hall commission are not to be missed during Frieze week&nbsp; <br>

Three to see: New York

From the Holy Wars to the culture wars to a conceptual art crusade

VP candidate Tim Kaine sponsors gun art show in Washington, DC

Photographs of works made by artists using decommissioned weapons are displayed in Senate building one month before the election, while originals are on view at local think tank

African American artists get Paris debut

Exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly introduces French audiences to artists like Jacob Lawrence, Aaron Douglas and Norman Lewis

Top five London shows during Frieze week

Our pick of the city's must-see exhibitions, including Picasso, Pollock and two million pennies<br>

Exclusive: Instagrammer Loyola Condenser speaks out in her first interview

The elusive artist discusses her work, and the Doig trial that made her famous, ahead of a show of photographs opening in Chicago