Exhibitions

The Big Review: Gary Simmons: Public Enemy at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ★★★★★

A powerful retrospective of the New York-born artist that is all too timely in its examination of racism in American culture

Marguerite Humeau plants a resilient crop of Land art in Colorado

Marguerite Humeau’s outdoor project in the rugged San Luis Valley seeks to heighten visitors’ awareness of the landscape

$29m Beeple sculpture goes on display at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

The artwork is being shown in the US for the first time since Swiss venture capitalist Ryan Zurrer bought it at a New York auction 2021

Choctaw-Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson will represent the United States at 2024 Venice Biennale

Gibson will be the first Indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition for the US Pavilion

Guatemala’s Paiz Art Biennial considers language's power and limitations in addressing violence

The largest contemporary art exhibition in Central America features more than 130 works at venues in Guatemala City and Antigua

‘This is about celebrating everyone’: London's V&A opens new Thomas J Price exhibition

The display includes a version of a sculpture that sparked debate in the Netherlands last month

Monuments to overlooked histories are coming to Washington, DC’s National Mall

New public art show will bring alternative monuments by Derrick Adams, Wendy Red Star, vanessa german and others to the busiest national park in the US

Yinka Shonibare and Toyin Ojih Odutola among artists selected for Nigeria's Venice Biennale 2024 pavilion

The exhibition, featuring eight Nigeria-based and diasporic artists, will be curated by Aindrea Emelife

New York's Upstate Art Weekend returns for its biggest edition yet

If you are traveling Upstate New York for the fourth iteration of this sprawling art adventure, keep a look out for these featured exhibitions and events

The curator playing matchmaker between emerging artists and Aspen collectors

Stella Bottai’s exhibition series at the Aspen Art Museum pairs emerging artists with works loaned by local collectors

San Francisco’s blockbuster Kehinde Wiley show to tour US museums for two years

The exhibition, which has been seen by more than 300,000 visitors to date at the de Young Museum, will travel to Houston, Miami and Minneapolis

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Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on bringing her punk protest art and a prison cell to New Mexico

One of the Russian dissident collective’s co-founders, Tolokonnikova is showing Pussy Riot’s work and her own at Container, an art space in Santa Fe

Who exactly is the Hayward Gallery's environment-themed summer blockbuster for?

At this pressing stage of the climate crisis, the London show seems to address our ecological emergency in the spirit of an earlier era

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Mo’ better news: Spike Lee exhibition coming to the Brooklyn Museum

The museum will showcase more than 300 objects related to the famed Brooklyn film-maker’s life and work

Dorothy Liebes survey weaves the story of her little-known but colourful career

Cooper Hewitt in New York celebrates the creator of vibrant mid-century Modern textiles

From the 'Bloomsbury stud' to unseen works by Winifred Nicholson—our pick of London Art Week

The annual eclectic gallery trail finishes on Friday, with 51 participants to see around central London

New exhibition in Tbilisi shines light on Georgian artist shunned by Soviet Union

Levan Chogoshvili's first large-scale solo show in the country will take place at the Atinati Cultural Center

Exhibition in London’s Little Lagos shines light on UK-Nigeria links

South London Gallery in Peckham (aka Little Lagos) will show work of 13 artists including Yinka Shonibare, bringing to light the shared cultures of the two places

National Gallery London masterpieces show in Shanghai sets record for visitor numbers

Beating the most popular paid-for exhibition on home turf, it has been a big win for the museum—but ethical questions linger

Victoria and Albert Museum lends a trove of medieval treasures to Qatari collection space in Paris

More than 70 items have been loaned to the Al Thani Collection space, which displays works belonging to Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah

Grayson Perry: the newly knighted potter on the power of accessibility and why he’s making a musical

Ahead of a retrospective in Edinburgh, the Turner Prize-winning artist, who inspired a nation of makers during the Covid-19 pandemic, explains why he never wants to stop learning

Take a magical mystery tour of Remedios Varo's surreal paintings in major new exhibition

A survey show at the Art Institute of Chicago brings together the Spanish Mexican artist’s extraordinary paintings and reveals new insights about their creation

A new generation of ceramicists takes the spotlight in London show

Adebunmi Gbadebo, who makes work from the soil her ancestors lived and worked on, is one of three rising artists in a new ceramics show at Maximillian William gallery in London

Edward Hopper’s New England epiphany explored in Cape Ann Museum show

Exhibition in Gloucester, Massachusetts, examines how his wife Jo and the five summers spent in the town were pivotal in jumpstarting his career

Sea change: how a trip to the Riviera with Renoir changed Monet's painting

A summer blockbuster at Monaco's Grimaldi Forum will examine a pivotal moment in the Impressionist's career

Seminal one-metre-tall prints of US birds fly to Compton Verney—but what of their controversial author?

Show of John James Audubon’s ‘Birds of America’ will also examine the man behind the works, whose name has been dropped from the exhibition title

13 art destinations for day trips near New York City this summer

Our picks of the must-see shows within a (relatively) short train, car, bus or ferry ride from New York City this summer, from the Storm King Art Center to the Newark Museum

Poisonous plants and an animatronic bear: Precious Okoyomon fills Roman chapel with a garden of unearthly delights

The New York-based artist's ability to balance the horrifying with the restorative reaches a mad-genius peak at Sant’Andrea de Scaphis