Exhibitions

‘Like a striptease’: Gypsy Rose Lee’s legacy lives on as her works remain elusive

New York theatre producer attempts to collect works by women of a landmark 1943 exhibition

What was the secret of 17th-century Dutch art? It began in Belgium

A new exhibition in Utrecht looks at the role of Antwerp in the development of painting in Holland

How Cecily Brown breathed life back into painting for a new generation

Brown's survey exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art brings fresh eyes to a time-tested medium

'Sometimes even the vultures have nothing to feed on': Kenyan artists bring an ecological warning to Manhattan

New York exhibition Kenyan Collectives at Affirmation Arts focuses on existential threats to Kenya’s wildlife and water supply

The Big Review: Picasso Celebration at the Musée National Picasso-Paris ★☆☆☆☆

A baffling show in which Pablo Picasso’s works become accessories for the British designer Paul Smith’s decorations

Twelve must-see exhibitions in New York during Frieze

From Lauren Halsey's new commission for the Met rooftop to funkily subversive sculptures at the Museum of Arts and Design, the season's essential exhibitions

Inspired by the Seine: an ambitious exhibition with Van Gogh’s Parisian landscapes opens in Chicago

Only one photograph of Vincent as an adult survives, drinking at a riverside café—but he turns his back on the camera

Looting, arrests and violence: an artist's perspective on the Sudan crisis

The Marquis de Sade's legacy explored in Barcelona show and Gwen John's self portrait in a Parisian interior

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French curator Nicolas Bourriaud appointed artistic director of 15th Gwangju Biennale

The South Korean exhibition has come under fire for its Park Seo-Bo art prize which has now been abolished

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A Kusama installation fails to inspire wonder in Chicago

An immersive work by the beloved Japanese artist at Chicago’s WNDR Museum disappoints

An overdue retrospective for an artist in touch with America’s dark ‘underbelly’

Native American artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has been transforming the contemporary art canon for decades with multilayered works that address cultural misconceptions with humour

‘Western Chinese restaurants are magical realist places’: Lap-See Lam on her first US solo exhibition

The artist’s video installation extrapolates a fantastical narrative from the kind of Chinese restaurant her own parents ran

St Louis’s Counterpublic triennial puts action and land repatriation at the fore

The triennial considers the city’s history of displacement with public works by New Red Order, Anita Fields and Jordan Weber, among others

Getty reveals $17m in funding and 50-plus exhibitions for 2024 edition of Pacific Standard Time

The science-themed initiative will span museums and organisations big and small throughout Southern California

President Macron stands up for artists after vandalism of controversial Miriam Cahn painting

French leader says defacing the work, which will remain on show at the Palais de Tokyo, is "attack on values"

Van Gogh’s last paintings go on show in Amsterdam and Paris

The two exhibitions are the first to highlight the artist’s productive final months in Auvers

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Watteau’s little-known teacher has his moment in the spotlight

A welcome introduction to the 18th-century French satirist Claude Gillot

Joana Vasconcelos's towering tree sculpture springs into life at French château

"Tree of Life" is made of 110,000 fabric pieces crafted during lockdown from materials that were already in the artist's studio

The good, the bad and the furry at the Karl Lagerfeld-themed Met Gala

The red carpet delivered countless interpretations of the late designer’s iconic wardrobe and his treasured Birman cat, Choupette

Vermeer fever: documentary on blockbuster Rijksmuseum show reaches record number of UK screenings

The film, 'Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition', will be shown in over 300 cinemas across the country

A pop-up museum in New York pushes back against 'excessive policing'

The Museum of Broken Windows takes on themes of state-sponsored racial injustice in light of New York mayor Eric Adams's planned municipal budget allocating $11bn to the NYPD

Eight rarely seen works by Jean-Michel Basquiat to be reunited in Basel

Paintings made in 1982 in Modena, valued at $800m, ended up in private collections worldwide

National Gallery of Australia investigates whether Indigenous artists had ‘creative control’ over works in new exhibition

An independent review will assess allegations that white studio staff painted on canvases attributed to leading Aboriginal artists

Keith Haring show in Los Angeles will highlight his quest to democratise art

The exhibition of 120 works at The Broad in Los Angeles will draw on the artist’s journals and include photographs by his friend Tseng Kwong Chi

‘Everything was taken from me’: how Lotte Laserstein’s paintbox saved her during Nazi-era exile

Largest exhibition of the German-born artist opens at the Moderna Museet in her adopted home of Sweden

How Lavinia Fontana went from ‘prospect’ to first professional woman artist

An exhibition of the 16th-century Italian painter at the National Gallery of Ireland tells the story of her unique circumstances and reveals the results of a recently restored work

In town for Gallery Weekend Berlin? Here are six shows not to miss

From a video Hito Steyerl pulled from Documenta 15 to an off-site karaoke installation in a car

London's National Gallery gets papal approval for its Saint Francis show

Exhibits include a cloth said to have been worn by the saint, masterpieces by Botticelli and Zurbarán, and a new Richard Long commission