Exhibitions

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How a turn-of-the-century Dvořák opera resonates with contemporary art

Opera director Sam Brown finds parallels between the tragic Rusalka at the heart of the Czech composer’s eponymous work and young artist Klára Hosnedlová’s monumental performative sculptures

Football's coming...to Manchester International Festival (with a little help from soccer player Juan Mata)

This summer's edition will also feature Yayoi Kusama’s monumental inflatables at Factory International's new building

Benin will have its first ever Venice Biennale pavilion in 2024

The presentation will be curated by Azu Nwagbogu, founder of the African Artists’ Foundation and former director of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art

Old Masters in Maastricht: What does Tefaf tell us about the market for historic art?

Plus, the Institut du Monde Arabe's major gift and expansion plans and an unflinching self-portrait by a Rococo woman artist

Hosted by Ben Luke. With guest speaker Anny Shaw. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson
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Climate change, a Gothic cathedral and champagne cellars: Eva Jospin takes on latest Ruinart commission

Promenade[s], an installation made mainly from cardboard and inspired by the landscape around Reims, will be shown at art fairs worldwide over the next year

Major LGBTQ+ exhibition tests the waters of free speech in Hong Kong

Despite growing censorship in the fast-changing city, only one work has been removed from the show so far

Marc Camille Chaimowicz: the artist quietly challenging the boundaries between art, décor and design

Two overlapping exhibitions see the Paris-born, London-based artist discuss his influences and inspirations, and the pleasure derived from including some of his late mother’s work

'The NFT bubble has popped, but there’s still untapped potential in digital art'

Artists have long mined cyberspace for inspiration, as two current exhibitions underscore

Is the figuration boom over? Gagosian to launch major show of abstract artists across London galleries this summer

Curator Gary Garrels has been given “carte blanche” to include artists not represented by the gallery

Native American painter Jaune Quick-to-See Smith will be the first artist to curate a show at the US National Gallery of Art

Smith’s exhibition will include works by around 50 living Native artists, including several that have recently been acquired by the NGA

NFTs crashed last year—does Art Dubai fair show signs of a ‘Crypto Spring’?

Plus, How Video Transformed the World at MoMA and the art of modernist ceramics

Hosted by Ben Luke. With guest speaker Aimee Dawson. Produced by David Clack

Major Hugo van der Goes survey shows there was more to the Old Master than mere ‘madness’

Exhibition at the Gemäldegalerie explores myths around the artist's mental state popularised by a later painting, as well as his position in Western art history

Degas and Manet’s ‘mix of friendship and rivalry’ chronicled in major new show

Despite disagreements and a spot of canvas slashing, it was one of the most significant relationships in art history—as a new exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris demonstrates

Why Edward Hopper’s New York was far from reality

The Whitney Museum's exhibition reveals an artist who painted the tranquil city he wanted to see

Lucie Rie, the Vienna-born émigré who turned British ceramics into an art form

A new exhibition at Kettle’s Yard hopes to cement Rie’s status as one of the UK’s leading 20th-century ceramicists

Bellini show in Paris brings together a cocktail of influences and challenges some previous hangovers

The curators of a new exhibition at the Musée Jacquemart-André will demonstrate how recent research is helping us see the work of Giovanni Bellini and his circle in a new light

A new show at Dia Chelsea aims to be a glowing tribute to Chryssa and her neons

The influence of New York on the Greek-born artist informs an exhibition designed to fill in the gaps of her story

Putting down roots: Wangechi Mutu takes over New Museum

Dedicating its entire space to a single artist for the first time, the museum's show traces the Kenya-born artist’s 25-year career

Nigeria’s pivotal election: what's the future of art and culture in the country?

Plus, the Met: a guard’s memoir and Hubert Robert at Stockholm's Nationalmuseum

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson
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Exhibition of artists from Afghanistan seeks to challenge Americans’ perceptions of the country

A show at the University of California, Berkeley showcases works by artists from Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora reflecting on the events of August 2021 and what has occurred since

Mike Nelson at Hayward Gallery: behind the London institution’s ‘most technically challenging’ exhibition to date

The Turner-Prize nominee’s vast installations have been painstakingly recreated for his first survey show—we speak to the team who made it happen

Island hopping: exhibition finds connections between ancient cultures of the Mediterranean

Show at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum of more than 200 artefacts from Sardinia, Cyprus and Crete considers the connections between lost island civilisations

In pictures: Inside the mirror-clad desert venue hosting Saudi Arabia’s first Warhol show

Exhibition makes comparisons between artist's obsession with fame and contemporary society’s all-consuming social media usage

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
Sponsored byChristie's