Exhibitions
Model restoration: Holbein painting of Tudor merchant returned to original glory—including sharper cheekbones
The newly conserved portrait of Derich Born will star in the Queen's Gallery show on the northern Renaissance artist
Paper, politics and poetry: why artists’ books from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia deserve a closer look
British Museum show and book by Venetia Porter tap into rich seam of works by non-Western artists
Van Gogh exhibitions coming up in 2024, a blockbuster and a surprise
London’s National Gallery will top the bill, with a spectacular display of paintings from Provence
Judy Chicago: the veteran artist backing great forgotten women and creating beauty from pain
As a vast retrospective opens in New York, the US artist discusses a 15th-century female author who has inspired her, the “purpose of life” and why she believes her work is only now being properly understood
Revolting women! Tate shines a light on feminist artists that were right ‘under our noses’
London show will explore the events that defined the women’s movement in Britain beginning in the 1970s, from the Equal Pay Act to Section 28
Dorothea Lange survey reveals how studio apprenticeships influenced how she later approached documentary photography
An exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, DC, examines five decades of the pioneering photographer’s portraits
The Big Review: Philip Guston at Tate Modern ★★★★★
The long-delayed London survey is a revelatory tour de force that charts the twists and turns of the Canadian-American artist's 50-year career
Frick museum in Pittsburgh postpones Islamic art exhibition over fears it would appear ‘insensitive’ or ‘traumatic’ amid Gaza war
Local Muslim and Jewish organisations have questioned the decision, suggesting it risks conflating historic Islamic art and Hamas
US exhibition to reveal audacity and experimentation of Eastern Bloc artists
The Walker Art Center's show brings together work by nearly 100 artists living under communist rule
Consumer culture art: Sylvie Fleury talks brands, cars and irreverent Minimalism
The Swiss artist is celebrating a 30-year career at Sprüth Magers in London
Two overlooked Asian artists who left a mark on Modern British art celebrated with UK exhibitions
The lives and work of Singaporean-British sculptor Kim Lim and the Chinese artist and poet Li Yuan-chia will be explored at the Hepworth Wakefield and Kettle’s Yard
The Indigenous artist and activist Glicéria Tupinambá will represent Brazil at 2024 Venice Biennale
The Brazilian pavilion will be renamed the “Hãhãwpuá Pavilion” for Tupinambá’s presentation, which is being co-curated by three Brazilian Indigenous artists
Blocked show on Genghis Khan finally opens in France
The exhibition in Nantes was postponed after interventions by Beijing authorities
Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza form backdrop for spectacular contemporary art show
The annual exhibition is one of several contemporary art events taking place in the region
New insights about Hans Holbein and his sitters come to light ahead of London and Frankfurt shows
The exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery will display rarely shown drawings, while the Städel Museum survey will show what might be the artist’s oldest known painting
New York’s performance art biennial returns, with a focus on the heyday of conceptual art
The 2023 Performa Biennial takes as its starting point the conceptual art of the 1960s and 70s, across works by 40 contemporary artists
Art or design? Art Week Tokyo exhibition relooks at the role of craft in post-war Japanese art
Curator Kenjiro Hosaka on five highlights from his AWT Focus exhibition, which brings together over 100 works from participating galleries
Five essential exhibitions to visit during Art Week Tokyo
Art Week Tokyo makes it easy to explore the city's many museum and gallery exhibitions. Our writers pick out some of the highlights to see this autumn
Major Daido Moriyama retrospective in London highlights his early, influential experiments
The Photographers’ Gallery exhibition explores how the artist railed against tradition as post-war Japan turned its focus towards the West
Saudi Arabia's Diriyah Biennale announces programme for 2024
After Rain exhibition, featuring 92 artists, is organised by curator Ute Meta Bauer
Show draws links between China’s opium wars and today’s opioid crisis
Exhibition of artefacts of 19th-century opium trade includes training for visitors on dealing with overdoses
Van Gogh’s sunflowers blossom in Japan
The masterpiece is celebrated in a show at Tokyo’s Sompo Museum
Kunsthaus Zurich advisers quit in conflict over new Bührle exhibition
The experts were hired after a previous iteration of the show was deemed inadequate in addressing the dark legacy of Emil Georg Bührle, who made his fortune selling weapons to Nazi Germany
A transparent show for a transphobic world: performance artist Puppies Puppies exhibits herself in a glass box for four months
The artist has recreated her bedroom and studio in the lobby of Manhattan's New Museum for a durational work grounded in activism
Artes Mundi hits the road: Welsh contemporary art prize exhibition opens with a focus on the Middle East
Artists such as Mounira Al Solh give the country-wide exhibition additional relevance
Four artists withdraw from 2024 Istanbul Biennial as curator row deepens
The participants invited this year call for "transparent forms of communication"—the biennial foundation says dialogue channels are still open
Kyiv Biennial's main exhibition in Vienna brings together the fragments of conflict
The show—the centrepiece of an event being hosted in several cities across Europe—features work addressing the Russia-Ukraine war as well as examples of authoritarian rule and political subjugation from further afield
Arte Povera comes to Paris: major exhibition to open at Bourse de Commerce next year
The show curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev will include loans from the Castello di Rivoli