Exhibitions
A man of many—tiny—letters
Collector, author and magician Ricky Jay on the 18th-century limbless entertainer Matthias Buchinger
Bristol museum sheds light on assisted dying
Installation accompanies death objects exhibition
David Bowie, patron saint of gender bending
Duncan Fallowell on the blockbuster travelling show, now at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, until 13 March
A battle won but a war lost: Red Horse at the Cantor Arts Center
Drawings of the Battle of Little Bighorn by the Minneconjou Lakota Sioux warrior are on view in California
Lego changes policy after Ai Weiwei backlash
Chinese artist describes U-turn as “victory for freedom of speech”
New Tate Modern to devote gallery to Artist Rooms
Louise Bourgeois, whose work helped launch gallery, first artist to be featured from collection each year <br>
The Buck Stopped Here: the British Empire strikes back, unravelling the Celtic enigma, plus Gavin Turk and Akram Khan
Dubai turns to photography in bid to become UAE’s premier arts hub
Dubai Photo Exhibition to launch in March with works from 23 countries
Los Angeles artist sells shadows of sculptures by Koons and Brancusi at a sliver of the price
Ana Prvacki finds a more “sustainable and minimal” form of appropriation art
Science fiction in the Holy Land
Artists Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind discuss how they are propelling Palestinians into an alternate reality
Art world hero: artists and curators pay tribute to David Bowie
British musician, artist and actor inspired a generation of artists including Tracey Emin and Dexter Dalwood
Swap shop: the stories behind six objects in Pia Camil’s New Museum installation
Find out why visitors brought a glass chicken, a Mardi Gras wig, a vintage hat, a diary page, a quilt and a package of seaweed for the artist’s first solo show
What to see in 2016: our picks of the top exhibitions
Make sure you add these shows to your art viewing schedule
Vik Muniz to reveal flip side of Mauritshuis’s Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer
Artist's painstaking copies of backs of famous paintings include the Mona Lisa
Top ten shows of 2015
Louisa Buck and Pac Pobric pick their favourite exhibitions of the year in the UK and the US
Germany could pay $3m to borrow Tehran’s Modern art
Negotiations include huge loan fee part of which will help fund revamp of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
One God to rule them all: Garry Shaw on Faith After the Pharaohs at the British Museum
The exhibition beautifully captures how religion shaped the region
MoMA swings into the 1960s with new collection display
The museum will reinstall its fourth floor galleries with international works from the “boundary-crossing” decade
Venice Biennale’s Iraq Pavilion show to travel to Belgium and Brazil
Invisible Beauty exhibition features works by five Iraqi artists
The Buck Stopped Here: Dorothy Cross’s shark tales, living in flux with Frank Auerbach, plus Jim Shaw and Susan Hiller
Abbas Kiarostami on his fixation with doors, the still image and carpentry
The Iranian film-maker is showing a photographic series he’s worked on for 20 years at Toronto’s Aga Khan Museum
Katrina Palmer recreates London’s infamous Necropolitan Line at the Henry Moore Institute
Train connected Waterloo station with Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey
Frank Stella’s decline: on the artist's Whitney Museum retrospective
Critical conviction regarding Stella's work has fallen with the quality of the art
Miami exhibition confronts gun violence
Show’s message reinforced by California shootings
Picasso, the master of experimentation
The prolific artist turned his hand to ceramics, photography, textiles and even poetry



























