Exhibitions
Investigation of Vermeer painting reveals 'startling discoveries' about his technique
Analysis of The Milkmaid ahead of a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum suggests he worked much faster than previously assumed
Raw meat and vagina scrolls: Carolee Schneemann’s body politics laid bare in first UK survey
The Barbican Art Gallery is staging a survey of the late pioneering performance artist, including more than 300 works ranging from early paintings and sculptural assemblages to films and installations
The must-see exhibitions celebrating Brazilian art on the country's bicentennial
Shows on view in museums and galleries across New York, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Paris and London, from the Brazilian art biennial at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo to Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca at the New Museum
Robert Irwin’s 1972 Fogg Museum scrim installation revived in its 'ideal location' at Dia Beacon
The converted Dia building and its gardens were themselves designed by Irwin, creating a sequence of interventions that one curator says is "like a Russian doll"
‘The rest is spectacular’: Niki de Saint Phalle show in Zürich will reveal another side to French-American artist
The exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich will include works that she shot with a rifle and tiny sculptures influenced by Jean Tinguely and Antoni Gaudí
Six museum exhibitions to see in Seoul during Frieze
From Do Ho Suh's child-friendly clay wonderland to Korakrit Arunanondchai's films on grief and love
The sitcom as social critique: Martine Syms foregrounds Black banality in major Chicago exhibition
The Los Angeles artist’s exploration of the Black experience in the US can be poignant, humorous and unsettling, as evidenced in her solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
A black chandelier of skeletons and surveillance cameras: Ai Weiwei unveils his first show of glass sculptures in Venice
The dissident artist has created the one of the world's largest suspended Murano glass artworks
Interview | Sculptor Patrick Dougherty on his illusionary stickwork
The artist has unveiled an otherworldly work for the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana that envelops a frontier-era school with swells of willow saplings
An overdue ode to the influence of Black cinema opens in Los Angeles
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures exhibition exlores the contributions of celebrated and overlooked minds in Hollywood alongside works by contemporary artists
Censored: the exhibitions that Instagram doesn’t want you to see
Galleries and artists are Increasingly finding themselves at the centre of heavy-handed suppression on the social media platform
War-ravaged Ukrainian mosaics digitally recreated in London show
Exhibition builds on a project to document Ukraine's monumental and contested public art created during Soviet era
After a lacklustre four years, MoMA PS1 in New York gets its groove back with trio of eye-opening shows
Summer of discontent: two London shows pose burning environmental questions amid UK heatwave
Helsinki’s Flow Festival is a pioneering carbon neutral event—but its art shows get lost in the decor
Experiential sound and light works included in the music festival are so immersive that they are almost hard to find
London's Saatchi Gallery cancels Russian-organised show of Ukrainian art after social media backlash
"The Ukrainian Way" was scheduled for 3-11 September with an accompanying auction of physical works and NFTs
Iraqi artists remove their works from Berlin Biennale over Abu Ghraib photography row
Sajjad Abbas, Raed Mutar and Layth Kareem say curators "prioritise the display of wrongly imprisoned Iraqis"
Tests reveal secrets of four Vermeer paintings—including their authenticity—in Washington, DC show
The National Gallery of Art has carried out scientific tests on the works, finding fascinating discoveries beneath the paint
Six must-see exhibitions on view in the Hamptons
As the Art Market Hamptons fair returns to Water Mill, these are the must-see shows on the east end of Long Island
An Indian artist on staging a public art project across the Indo-Pakistan border
New Delhi-based Manisha Gera Baswani discusses her ongoing series Postcards from Home that photographs fellow artists in both countries
India and Pakistan turn 75: exhibitions on independence and partition to see around the world
From Kolkata to Chicago, here are 11 shows that deal with the many histories of nationhood and freedom in the subcontinent
Gandhi's handwritten notes to Lord Mountbatten on the eve of India's partition go on show
Group exhibition at John Hansard Gallery in Southampton is curated by the Mumbai artist Jitish Kallat and includes works by Kader Attia and Zarina
Hélio Oiticica’s unrealised Tropicália environment erected in New York
The Brazilian artist developed the installation and several other iterations of architectural environments on a Guggenheim grant in the 1970s but never secured funding to build the work
Feminist artist Suzanne Lacy on the possibilities of activism and public service in the art world
The artist’s current survey at the Queens Museum in New York revisits major milestones of her practice
'Mum, I don't want war': Children's drawings from Ukraine displayed alongside those from Poland in 1946
On view in 16 cities Polish cities, the exhibition shows the "shocking" similarity between the contemporary and historical pictures
Overlooked for decades, the spiritual and surreal paintings of Audra Skuodas make a star turn in Cleveland’s Front triennial
A prolific artist who died in 2019 after spending most of her life in Ohio, Skuodas produced an enigmatic oeuvre spanning many decades, styles and media
Exhibition traces the footsteps of the Prophet Muhammad in unprecedented detail
Show about the Hijrah—Muhammad's journey from Mecca to Medina—at Saudi Arabia’s Ithra Museum will go on a five-year world tour
Winold Reiss, the German immigrant artist who immortalised marginalised Americans
An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society surveys the career of the little-known artist and designer who devoted his art to Black, Indigenous and Asian Americans
Ai Weiwei to curate exhibition of works created by UK prisoners
The Chinese activist, detained in 2011, has visited prisons across the country