Exhibitions

Metropolitan Museum plans major Fontana show for 2017

Italian artist’s New York survey could be in the Met Breuer

Fontana as you’ve never seen him before

HangarBicocca show in Milan will throw new light on artist’s walk-in installations

Exotic seasoning, but nothing too foreign: Rachel Corbett on the Triennial Bruges

The newly revived exhibition has some nice work on view, but is far better-behaved than its avant-garde past

Manchester show is a taster of what’s to come at Hong Kong’s vast M+ museum

The selection of 80 works is a peek at the Swiss collector Uli Sigg’s comprehensive collection of contemporary Chinese art

British Museum’s ivory icons denied US entry for loan show

The US Fish and Wildlife Service blocked the importation of the Byzantine objects before they ever left the UK

You can never have too much of a good thing

Certain installations have star status—shown in multiple museums, they have often attracted long queues. But what makes them so compelling?

Damien Hirst to open London space in October

Inaugural exhibition at Newport Street Gallery will be solo show for British artist John Hoyland

There’s something about Amber

Exhibition celebrates film and photography collective in Newcastle that impressed Henri Cartier-Bresson with its record of life up north

Berlin’s summer of performance and film art starts this weekend

From the Foreign Affairs festival to commercial gallery shows, time-based art can be found all over the German city

Greece’s finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to speak at sixth Moscow Biennale

Ten-day event at historic Soviet-era site will include public forums, daily keynote speeches and performances

V&A’s first steps in southern China

London institution introduces contribution to biennial in Shenzhen ahead of 2017 opening of its new gallery in the city

Chinese billionaire collector partners with Institute of Contemporary Arts in London

Adrian Cheng will support exhibitions by emerging Chinese artists at the institution

“I don’t have the illusion that art will save lives or diminish violence”

Doris Salcedo’s timely retrospective remembers victims of political violence

Joana Vasconcelos creates new work for selling show at Phillips London

Auction house is contributing towards the artist’s production costs

Artangel’s newest commission gives a glimpse into former BBC headquarters

Ben Rivers’s cinematic installation is screened in salvaged film sets, scenery and prop workshops

National Gallery Singapore to open with a little help from the Pompidou

Paris institution will co-organise the inaugural exhibition at the museum next year, expanding its empire in Asia

Swiss collector’s Chinese art to go on show in Bern

Two museum exhibitions will feature works that Uli Sigg has acquired since 2005

Don’t look hard: Matthew Collings on Francis Bacon and the Masters

Bacon’s work has relationships with the Masters of art history, but the likenesses are often fugitive

The generation game: the women behind the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation

Around 300 pieces from the Swiss organisation's sizeable art collection is on display at the Schaulager

Benin artist to embark on journey to Jerusalem

Georges Adéagbo is due to have a show at the Israel Museum in January 2016