Exhibitions

‘Enema of the state’: Aboriginal artist Richard Bell on his protest pieces heading to Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall

Works going on show include a ticker tape calculating what the British government owes Indigenous Australians for use of their country during colonisation

Oxford exhibition unearths the fascinating story of Minoan culture and its discovery

Ashmolean Museum show will reveal how the excavations of its former keeper 100 years ago helped popularise a Minoan world of mythological minotaurs and labyrinths

First major show of Sandro Botticelli’s drawings to include five newly attributed works

Exhibition at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor will bring together 27 drawings and reunite Uffizi’s Adoration of the Magi with its preparatory designs for the first time

From a marble toilet roll to a giant Lego structure: Ai Weiwei's new London show looks at the value of objects

Exhibition at the Design Museum will include the artist's works drawing on the Covid-19 pandemic

‘Picasso is relevant to any creative person working today’: British designer Paul Smith to provide art direction for exhibition on the Spanish artist

The show at the Musée National Picasso in Paris will include a jazz soundtrack, Modern masterpieces hung on colourfully designed walls, and Picasso’s Vogue magazine drawings

Show of unseen Paul McCartney photographs—taken at the height of Beatlemania—will help relaunch London’s National Portrait Gallery

Refurbished museum has also announced shows of female photographers Yevonde, Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron and will see the return of David Hockney

Venice Biennale 2024: all the national pavilions, artists and curators

The latest news of the key players taking part in the 60th International Art Exhibition

John Akomfrah to represent Britain at 2024 Venice Biennale

The British-Ghanaian artist is well known for searing video installations examining issues ranging from climate change to colonialism

A bracing VR ride through Ancient Egypt accompanies Ramses II exhibition

A traveling exhibition about the Pharoah of Pharaohs includes ancient artefacts on loan from Egypt, curatorial texts and a $20 VR experience “guided” by Ramses II’s queen, Nefertari

Groups in Guatemala demand return of Maya throne sent to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

Guatemalan law prohibits the export of such artefacts for exhibition, local culture organisations say

The art world in 2023: market predictions, big shows and museum openings

From a post-pandemic Brexit watershed to Hip Hop's 50th birthday, The Art Newspaper team dicuss what lies ahead this year

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The Big Review: Vittore Carpaccio at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC ★★★★☆

The painter’s masterpieces show that his influences stretched beyond Venice and at times touch on the miraculous.

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Sculptor Nyugen E. Smith’s new show in Washington, DC turns discarded objects into art

The Caribbean-American artist tell us about his new exhibition and how his work was inspired by makeshift houses in a Ugandan refugee camp

Art Night contemporary art festival moves out of London to the Scottish city of Dundee

The Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani has been confirmed for a new commission

Cecco del Caravaggio—the mysterious student and lover of the Baroque master of shadow—takes centre stage in new show

The Fondazione Accademia Carrara in Bergamo is showing 19 of 25 known paintings by the student who modelled for Caravaggio

A twisted tale of sugar and slaves: Alberta Whittle uncovers awkward truths in UK show

The Barbados-born artist confronts the unpalatable past of Guy Ball, the great-grandfather of the Holburne Museum’s founder

A Flemish Caravaggisto comes out of the shadows in new Belgian exhibition

Theodoor Rombouts, a contemporary of Rubens and Van Dyck, is little known, but a new show aims to shine a light on his talents

Soheila Sokhanvari: the former scientist using ‘alchemy’ to bring together Iranian and Western culture

The Shiraz-born artist tells us how she became an artist after a bad cycling accident and why what is happening in Iran is “no longer a protest, it’s a revolution”

‘Like a chess player’: London survey show reveals practice of studious still-life painter and printmaker Giorgio Morandi

The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art will display the 50 works by the Italian artist held in the Magnani-Rocca collection

From Sharjah to São Paulo: 2023's most interesting biennials

From Okwui Enwezor’s final project to an Indigenous-inspired Liverpool Biennial, here are some key dates for your exhibition calendars

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‘I never run out of ideas’: an interview with Yayoi Kusama and highlights from her new catalogue

The artist, who is now in her 90s and voluntarily living in a psychiatric hospital, has a major retrospective under way in Hong Kong

A guide to the dozens of exhibitions worldwide marking the 50th anniversary of Picasso's death

Celebration Picasso 1973-2023, organised by the governments of Spain and France, explores the many sides of the Spanish artist's life and work

Not everyone is celebrating Picasso’s big anniversary—that makes it more exciting

A series of exhibitions marking the 50th anniversary of the Spanish artist's death includes a show curated by comedian and Picasso-hater Hannah Gadsby

Exhibitions in 2022: the best shows and major trends of the year

Big hitters were the subject of major shows, from Donatello in Florence to Faith Ringgold in New York and Alice Neel in Paris

Van Gogh in 2022: record prices, top shows and exciting discoveries

Plus, the best books on Vincent and the artist's booming immersive experiences