Exhibitions

Protest performance art in Tbilisi sparks political storm between Georgia's president and culture minister

Use of police forces against supporters of artist Sandro Sulaberidze have been criticised by country's top state officials

Sharjah Biennial 15 delivers important postcolonial narrative—but loses its experimental edge

Exhibition "Thinking Historically in the Present" in the United Arab Emirates is the final brainchild of the late Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor

Bridget Riley’s drawings hold the key to her process

A travelling exhibition featuring more than 90 works on paper reveals the evolution of the British abstractionist’s approach to line, tone and colour

The Big Review: Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum ★★★★★

A less-is-more approach to the biggest ever exhibition of the Dutch Old Master’s paintings makes this blockbuster a triumph

Turkey-Syria earthquake: the race to save damaged heritage sites

Plus, Alice Neel's largest UK show and a dazzling turn-of-the-century blanket

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson
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Ukraine benefit exhibition blossoms in Los Angeles

A pop-up exhibition in aid of Ukrainian relief efforts has opened in Los Angeles following a stint in New York

New programme matches artists with Los Angeles communities for residencies

Hayley Barker's Night Gallery show draws on her time living at Laguna Castle, a residential group built on communal traditions

Computer art at the dawn of the algorithm: ambitious Lacma show celebrates 75 pioneering artists

"Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982" exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art show work generated through the mainframes of the pre-internet era

Ten essential artworks to see in Berlin

From Joseph Beuys's deconstructed tram stop to a lifesize bust of Nefertiti, here are some of the must-see cultural offerings in the European capital of cool

The Big Review: Max Beckmann at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich ★★★★★

The show takes a "maniacal and majestic" triptych as its departure point, before using a skilful combination of works and personal effects to provide a deep understanding of the German artist

Eight must-see exhibitions to see during Frieze Los Angeles

From New Mexico's short-lived Transcendental Painting Group to the evolution of America through its quilts

An exhibition framing Basquiat’s art through music rings true

In “Seeing Loud: Basquiat in Music” at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, music both sets the stage for and unlocks the meaning of the artist’s enduring, resonant work

Vermeer special: the man, the show and an attribution debate

As the "unmissable" show opens at the Rijksmuseum we talk to the curators, the museum's director and artist Alvaro Barrington

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson
Sponsored byChristie's

Walk in Vermeer's footsteps: exhibition in artist's home city reveals 'the man behind the paintings'

Prinsenhof Museum show in Delft opens along with landmark Rijksmuseum exhibition on Dutch 17th-century painter

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Queer eye: Donatello is reviewed through an LGBTQ+ prism

“The queer sculptor who stunned 15th-century Florence explodes again after six centuries,” writes art critic Jonathan Jones of the V&A exhibition

UK exhibition uncovers holy link between Henry VIII’s rival wives Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon

Both British queens owned the same prayerbook, curators at Hever Castle in England have found

The Girl with a Glass Bauble Earring? Why Vermeer's painting probably did not depict a real pearl

Plus, did you know the work used to be called “Girl with the Turban” and once sold for less than £1?

Postponement of exhibition on Russian architecture school sparks accusations of ‘censorship and historical erasure’

New York’s Cooper Union postponed an exhibition on Vkhutemas, a school that operated in Moscow for ten years in the early 20th century before Stalin shut it down

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The art of the obit: Adam McEwen on his hypothetical obituaries of living celebrities who are ‘guides to life’

The Art Newspaper’s obituaries editor speaks to the New York artist about how his journalistic training informs his tributes to figures like Greta Thunberg and Dolly Parton

Artist Phyllida Barlow pens a poem dedicated to Joseph Beuys drawings

The works are in a show at Thaddaeus Ropac gallery in London, which includes a room curated by Antony Gormley

How artists' day jobs can have a big impact on their art

An exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art brings together examples of artists drawing inspiration from having to earn a wage away from the studio

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Peter Doig: the painter making prints from poems, and swapping the Caribbean for the Courtauld

The Scottish-born artist tells us about his connection to the works of Cézanne, Matisse and Pissarro, and his fruitful collaboration with the Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott

Rijksmuseum's groundbreaking slavery exhibition heads to United Nations headquarters in New York

Speakers from around the world have been invited to a two-day talks programme centred around the display

Magnificent masterpieces by Donatello head to London's Victoria and Albert Museum

The first major UK exhibition dedicated to the radical Italian Renaissance master will also include important works from the museum's own collection

‘She started here’: Buffalo, New York, honours Cindy Sherman half a century after hosting her first solo show

The celebrated Pictures Generation photographer, who studied at Buffalo State University, is the subject of a retrospective at the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts

Abstract Expressionism’s forgotten women and their international contemporaries emerge from the shadows

An ambitious exhibition at London’s Whitechapel Gallery will celebrate the female artists from around the world who, against the odds, helped redefine art in the post-war period

'Manhattan favourite 303 gallery stays relevant by staying small'

A new show by Esteban Jefferson affirms that the Chelsea gallery takes a reassuringly traditional approach to bringing on new talent

Satirical portrayals of president spark censorship row in South Korea

Shutdown of the exhibition "Goodbye in Seoul" is the latest in a series of censorship controversies around negative images of Yoon Suk-yeol