Exhibitions

Art market wobble: what happens if banks go bust?

Plus, hip hop in Baltimore and Juan de Pareja, the artist enslaved by Velázquez

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Whistler’s career-defining portrait of his mother returns to Philadelphia 142 years after its US debut

The painting commonly referred to as “Whistler’s Mother” will be on view in an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art exploring artists’ portrayals of their mothers

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‘It is a crime against humanity’: Ai Weiwei discusses refugees in the UK, moving on from Covid and why Lego is his medium of choice

Design Museum exhibition brings together more than a million pieces collected by the artist including spouts and Stone Age tools

Brutal demand for change: Steve McQueen's Grenfell Tower film at the Serpentine

Weeks after a fire took the lives of 72 people, the British artist, who was born nearby, shot the ruin of the 24-storey tower from a circling helicopter

Five panels from Dosso Dossi's ‘magnificent’ Renaissance frieze reunited for exhibition in Rome

The Galleria Borghese has brought together the Aeneas Frieze panels from collections around the world

The late conceptual artist Stanley Brouwn would not want you to read this article

The curators of his first US museum survey will not talk about the show, honouring his wishes not to interpret his artwork

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Jann Haworth, Pop Art pioneer, discovers a 'soft and warm' sensibility in response to changes brought by the global pandemic

The American artist re-examines the myth of the Wild West in her new painted textile works—and shows a fabric figure from her co-creation of the legendary "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover

Are visitors finally returning to museums? We dive into our latest visitor figures survey

Plus, the Manet/Degas rivalry in Paris and one of the most significant female Impressionists

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Radicalism and romance of the Rossetti family explored in London survey

Tate Britain’s exhibition will highlight the Pre-Raphaelite group’s preoccupations with gender and class

Simone Leigh reprises Venice Biennale success for US touring show

The homecoming tour for the artist’s presentation in Venice last year begins at the ICA Boston

Vatican tapestry of Leonardo's Last Supper gets extremely rare outing

How the Pope washed the feet of 13 priests during Holy Week is at the heart of a new exhibition outside Turin

Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat's collaboration examined in Fondation Louis Vuitton show

Paris exhibition explores the fusion of two giants of American art in the mid-1980s

'A new model for cash-strapped public galleries? How England's Baltic filled its empty halls with Hew Locke's Procession'

To survive this economic crisis, we must build new networks between public and commercial galleries

The story of Juan de Pareja: from Diego Velázquez’s slave to distinguished artist

Although the artist is best known as the subject of a portrait by his master, a new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will shine a light on his life and career

Impasto masters Chaïm Soutine and Leon Kossoff go head-to-head

Exhibition at Hastings Contemporary looks at the influence of the School of Paris painter on his School of London counterpart

Mindful of its footprint, Desert X returns to the Coachella Valley and mulls expansion

The California biennial, which controversially expanded to Saudi Arabia, is eyeing another international edition

Best in show? Exhibition of dog paw-traits opens at London’s Wallace Collection

The show includes works by Leonardo and David Hockney, as well as a painting that Queen Victoria was “enamoured by”

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‘I painted and painted and painted, and I refound myself’: Sharon Stone on her first solo show

The actor returned to painting during pandemic lockdowns and used her practice to process difficult periods in her personal life and professional career

Olafur Eliasson puts climate change front and centre in Qatar exhibition and desert installation

The artist’s first solo show in the Gulf region presents sculpture, photography and more at the National Museum of Qatar, as well as 12 open-air pavilions at a nature preserve

Closed since the start of the pandemic, a museum reopens with a dramatic gesture—an exhibition without art

The gallery at St. John's College in Maryland has reopened as the revamped Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum

Yuki Kihara: the photographer upending the cultural legacy of Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings

Ahead of her show at Sydney's Powerhouse Ultimo, the Japanese-Samoan artist tells us about the importance of exhibiting at the Venice Biennale and how she created a third-gender paradise

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Gian Maria Tosatti tells us why he used gold, rust and charcoal for his new works unveiled in Milan

The Italian artist, who represented his country at the 59th Venice Biennale, has an exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca

The New Museum selects curators for its next triennial, the first following its $89m expansion

The triennial’s sixth edition, scheduled for 2026, will be co-organised by one in-house curator and another from Brazil’s Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand

Rubbish move: gallery of binned artworks shut down by Hong Kong authorities

Housing department feared visitors would obstruct sanitation workers after the grassroots arts space went viral earlier this year

Linton Kwesi Johnson—voice of Britain’s post-Windrush Generation—opens London solo show with poetry performance

Exhibition at Paul Stolper gallery was attended by the artist's long-time fans and collaborators, including the painter Peter Doig

Hong Kong added to East Asian tour of masterpieces from London’s National Gallery

Exhibition featuring Titian and Van Gogh will travel to Hong Kong Palace Museum following stops in Shanghai and Seoul

Inside the 'biggest art fraud in history': what the alleged mass forgery tells us about the market for First Nations art in Canada

Plus worryingly low artists’ pay in the UK and an Ugly Duchess

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Van Gogh stars in 'After Impressionism' show at London's National Gallery

Loans include four rarely seen paintings from private collections, with a major rediscovery

Leading Indian Modernist SH Raza gets first public museum retrospective at Centre Pompidou in Paris

The monographic show spans a 60-year career, from his beginnings in Bombay to later life in France