Exhibitions
Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli will curate the 2024 Whitney Biennial
After a 2022 Biennial curated entirely in-house, the Whitney has selected one staff member, Iles, and an independent curator, Onli, to organise the exhibition’s 81st edition
What was it like being a celebrity rhinoceros in 18th-century Europe? A new show at the Rijksmuseum finds out
Clara the rhinoceros, who was brought to Rotterdam from India in 1741 and taken on a two-decade tour of Europe, is the subject of a new exhibition charting her life and the influence she had on art, science and culture
National Gallery takes a closer look at Lucian Freud with sweeping survey to mark centenary
Among a slew of shows celebrating 100 years since the artist’s birth, the National Gallery exhibition explores his enduring appeal as a new generation embrace figuration
Together again: Gagosian exhibition celebrates Freud's centenary by reuniting the artist with his closest friends
The show will feature works by Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews and the photographer Bruce Bernard
The Carnegie International takes on the era of US superpower
Works in the 58th Carnegie International range from an exploration of America’s geopolitical influence to a tree that owns the plot of land it occupies in Pittsburgh
Meet the painters of Pompeii: new exhibition brings fresh insights to the Roman frescoes
Bologna show looks beyond the paintings, preserved by the ash of Mount Vesuvius, to explore Roman society
'Germany has cancelled us': As embattled Documenta 15 closes, its curators ruangrupa reflect on the exhibition—and what they would have done differently
This edition of the Kassel quinquennial was engulfed by a row over antisemitism and racism that has drawn comment from Germany's senior politicians
Revealed: the hidden history of espionage in Britain’s heritage sites
New film uncovers how locations including Beaulieu, today home to the National Motor Museum, played a key role in intelligence training during the Second World War
French-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira on the politics of the sea and why she felt at home moving to Brixton in the 1980s
The artist, who is representing France at this year’s Venice Biennale, speaks ahead of her forthcoming exhibition at the De La Warr Pavilion
Art in a radish field: Mexico's Hacer Noche festival invites engagement in unusual locations
Barcelona-based curator and museum director Elvira Dyangani Ose has organised the second edition of the city-wide show in Oaxaca
Zoe Leonard and Cathy Wilkes are breaths of fresh air for New York's fall art season
Brad Pitt makes his debut as a sculptor in Finland exhibition
The Fight Club actor shows his art in public for the first time in a group show with musician Nick Cave and artist Thomas Houseago
The 17th Istanbul Biennial finds novel ways to have difficult conversations
Against the constraints imposed by Covid-19 and Turkey’s repressive social climate, the influential biennial obliquely takes up thorny topics and engages with the city’s alternative spaces
Radical outsiders: how Cézanne and Van Gogh drove art to new heights
Ahead of Tate Modern’s Cézanne blockbuster exhibition, we investigate the two artists' links
Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans shows us ways to look without fear in MoMA survey
The show’s unconventional hang and nonhierarchical approach to photographic print invites us to think about images today
Do good monarchs make bad art collectors? Inside the British Royal Collection
Plus, how UK museums can respond to the energy crisis, and a haunting Henry Fuseli painting
London show shines a light on the 20th-century artist-cum-composer who Lithuanians consider a national hero
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis—who saw the “whole world as a great symphony”—used systems of musical composition in his paintings
Hew Locke covers Met Museum with golden trophies inspired by colonial looting
The suite of sculptures is inspired by works in the museum’s collection with convoluted histories
The Black studio photographers of 19th and early 20th-century America come into focus
A new exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art focuses on the flourishing African American portraiture industry that emerged immediately after photography’s invention
Dozens of museum shows across Europe and US will mark 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death next year
Artist’s controversial relationships with women will be examined through "the prism of feminism", including via a dedicated Brooklyn Museum exhibition co-curated by comedian Hannah Gadsby
Trio of UK shows place contemporary art among historic collections
Artists Linder, Jadé Fadojutimi and Eileen Cooper exhibit recent work alongside selections from museums holdings around the country, creating new meanings and encouraging visitors to see the older pieces in a new light
Van Gogh exhibitions in 2023: we reveal the hot tickets coming up worldwide
Highlight shows in Chicago, Paris and Amsterdam—plus a 50th birthday celebration for the Van Gogh Museum
Is art censorship on the rise? How freedom of expression is being curbed across the globe
Plus, a striking photograph by Diane Arbus and the Guggenheim Bilbao at 25
Subversive ceramics by enslaved Black potters go on show at New York's Met Museum
The exhibition stages works ranging from Dave the Potter in 1834 to contemporary responses by the likes of Theaster Gates and Simone Leigh
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