Exhibitions

Glamorous moths and giant lily pads: Monster Chetwynd unveils commissions in London Underground and Scottish island Bute

The Turner Prize-nominated performance artist delves into the worlds of botany and insects for two characteristically extravagant UK commissions this summer

When Native American art merged with New York abstraction

A show on the early days of the Institute of American Indian Arts explores the fusing of Native American ancestral aesthetics with mainstream Modernist movements

Beyond Picasso: the other Guernicas are brought together for exhibition in northern France

Artist responses to the 1937 bombing in the Basque Country include René Iché's disturbing sculpture and a piece by protégé of Henri Matisse

Octavia Butler’s classic science-fiction novel Parable of the Sower sprouts artistic seedlings

The book, which was published 30 years ago, is inspiring performances and installations across the US

Venice Biennale curator unveils vision for next year's exhibition

The focus of the show will be foreign artists—including refugees, émigrés and members of a diaspora

Windrush 75th anniversary marked by series of royal art commissions including portraits by Sonia Boyce and Amy Sherald

Also commemorating the arrival of the vessel from the Caribbean is a new exhibition at London's V&A and a display in London's Piccadilly Circus

Barbican exhibition cancelled in wake of 'anti-Palestinian censorship' row

Resolve Collective has accused staff at the London arts centre of censoring a talk and for showing “hostility towards close family and friends at the exhibition opening”

British Museum accused of using translator’s work without permission

Vancouver-based Yilin Wang says the London institution included their translations of Chinese poet Qiu Jin’s poems in its latest show—but did not credit her

Jean Cooke: new show explores the gardener artist who was wild at heart

London exhibition dedicated to the artist reveals how her approach to gardening was as enigmatic as her approach to portraiture

A maritime museum shifts its focus to ocean health

The Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut is foregrounding ocean ecology in its first contemporary art exhibition, with new commissions by American painter Alexis Rockman

Never-before-seen South Asian miniature paintings from British Royal Collection to go on view in Milton Keynes

The exhibition at MK gallery will track the development of the art form from the 16th century to the present day and will explore how the works ended up in the UK to begin with

Henry Moore Institute rediscovers the German artist Egon Altdorf, who 'detested the commercial art world'

Many of the works to be exhibited have never been shown before and were salvaged by his son from Altdorf’s studio

Sin Wai Kin's films challenge gender binaries and fascist Italian architecture

The Turner Prize-nominated artist-filmmaker discusses their current solo show in Rome and award-winning solo stand at Art Basel

‘We were both shocked that the photo was ever taken’: the collectors who assembled a trove of early vernacular photos of men in love

Texas-based collectors Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell have amassed a collection of more than 4,000 early photos, some of which are now on view at a Swiss museum

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High voltage: P. Staff on their show full of live wires, acid and blood at Kunsthalle Basel

The multimedia artist discusses their biggest show to date, including a series of unnerving interventions into the museum’s architecture

Best shows to see in Basel: from sound sculptures to a Basquiat bonanza

An interactive show of multimedia works has opened at Museum Tinguely while the Fondation Beyeler has reunited a series of Basquiat paintings

Basel's got talent? Artists invite visitors to make their multimedia installations sing

At their Museum Tinguely retrospective, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller welcome participants interacting with their works, which combine elements of theatre, video and sound design

Basel's groundbreaking open-storage venue Schaulager celebrates 20 years with video art show

Museum's model, giving access to works not on display, has been replicated throughout the world

Can biennials really be sustainable? Helsinki Biennial looks at issues around the climate crisis

Artists and curators grapple with creating works that draw attention to the problem while also relying on travel and shipping to share them

Tomás Saraceno invites wildlife into London's Serpentine Galleries for sustainable solar-powered show

A gallery wall has been removed to invite creatures from the park outside to roam the space

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Liverpool Biennial takes on the city’s unique role in the transatlantic slave trade

The South African curator Khanyisile Mbongwa has some home truths for the people of Liverpool—but do the points land?

The Big Review: Georg Baselitz: Naked Masters at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna ★★★★★

Bold pairings of paintings by the contemporary German artist with those of the Old Masters are both provocative and elegiac

Vermeer blockbuster officially breaks record at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum

The recently-closed exhibition drew 650,000 visitors in its four month run

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Just Stop Oil activists stage London show

The protest group is taking over Koppel X in London

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Reverend Joyce McDonald: 'From the shooting gallery to the art gallery'

She spent decades hooked on heroin until a religious experience changed her life. Now, the reverend of a Brooklyn church has been discovered by the art world

The hottest emerging shows to see during London Gallery Weekend

From digital avatar tapestries to an alpaca wool peephole, here is the best of the capital's cutting-edge art scene

Reinterpreting and repositioning the legacy of Joshua Reynolds 300 years after his birth

An exhibition in Plymouth, near where Reynolds grew up, looks at the stories behind the society figures depicted in his portraits