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
The sublime and the divine: Ashmolean exhibition explores Islamic divinatory art
Dozens of artefacts never before on public view feature in show
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>
Beat poetry and heavy beats, Marisa Merz’s mesmerising mixed-media, Jim Nutt’s nutty portraits and Bedwyr Williams’s wooden spoon in this week’s London exhibition roundup
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 <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




























