Exhibitions

A man of many—tiny—letters

Collector, author and magician Ricky Jay on the 18th-century limbless entertainer Matthias Buchinger

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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

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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>

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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Venice Biennale’s Iraq Pavilion show to travel to Belgium and Brazil

Invisible Beauty exhibition features works by five Iraqi artists

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

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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