Exhibitions
Kochi Biennale co-founder Bose Krishnamachari steps down as president
The artist and curator has resigned from his position at the Kochi Biennale Foundation citing “pressing family reasons”
The road to ‘Fridamania’: how Frida Kahlo became a global phenomenon
A new show will explore the Mexican artist's complex personality and her rise to fame over the past 50 years
From 10,000 pennies to a Beatles record haul, the obsessive work of Rutherford Chang heads to Beijing
The “near frightening rigour” of the post-conceptualist artist is celebrated at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
Ai Weiwei’s first India solo exhibition to open in New Delhi
A selling show at Nature Morte gallery will include work from across the outspoken Chinese artist’s career—amid reports of rising censorship in India
The Year Ahead 2026: the big exhibitions and the key museum openings—podcast
From the opening of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, New York, The Art Newspaper's editors look ahead to next year's biggest stories
The Big Review | Jacques-Louis David at the Musée du Louvre, Paris ★★★★★
The major survey repositions the French artist as more than a Neoclassicist, emphasising instead his realism and idealism
Van Gogh shows in 2026: America, Japan and the Netherlands
Must-see exhibitions coming this year include ‘Van Gogh’s Sunflowers’ in Philadelphia and ‘Yellow: Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour’ in Amsterdam
Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ will head to Japan this summer in rare loan
The famous painting, held in the Mauristhuis museum in The Hague, was banned from travel in 2014
‘Certain things you can only see from the sky’: artist Precious Okoyomon on how flying planes has inspired their practice
The artist’s experience of being a recreational pilot has played into many of their works—including some on view in a current Paris exhibition
More US artists forced to pay for their own shows as museum and culture budgets shrink
A non-profit initiative in Miami exposes the widening funding gap redefining who can afford to exhibit at American institutions
A taster of the British Museum's Hawaii show in three objects
The curator Alice Christophe delves into the catalogue and picks out some key objects ahead of the exhibition in London
The must-see exhibitions of 2026: from Duchamp in New York to Baldessari in Beijing
We round-up the biggest shows opening each month
How Gertrude Abercrombie and her Magic Realist cohorts shifted the dial on American Regionalism
Milwaukee show explores how the Queen of Chicago and her friends offered a different vision of the Midwest
Our pick of the shows to see in the world's great art cities in 2026
The exhibitions to visit in London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and Madrid
Paris exhibition provides a new canon-busting vision of Minimalism
Bourse de Commerce show celebrates the movement's unsung stars such as Meg Webster
The waves that disappeared—Art duo Cooking Sections track lost tides in new installation
Centro Botin presentation also taps into community concerns about dredging and port expansion
Guatemala’s Bienal de Arte Paiz nurtures connections across geography and history
In its largest edition yet, the biennial frames art as an “arboreal metaphor” for exchange, resistance and resilience
Late UK artist Sarah Cunningham honoured with Nottingham Contemporary show
Exhibition next autumn marks return of the artist’s work to the city where she was born
'We can imagine alternatives to the present': Cannupa Hanska Luger on his exhibition at the Joslyn Art Museum
For his new show, the multidisciplinary artist drew inspiration from 19th-century watercolours of Indigenous communities by the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer
The art world in 2025: our review of the biggest stories and shows—podcast
From the Los Angeles wildfires to Trump’s policies on culture and heritage, The Art Newspaper's editors analyse the year's biggest stories
Van Gogh in 2025: Record prices, memorable shows and the first Korean acquisition
This year also brought a disturbing threat to Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum
Ecuador's Bienal de Cuenca marks 40th anniversary with a playful theme but a serious tone
The biennial opens its 17th edition with a wide-ranging programme of 17 curators directing the projects of 51 artists across multiple venues
MoMA explores how African studio portraits offered a new vision of freedom
Show proposes that West and Central African photographers may have helped shape Black identities across the globe
56 participating artists, duos and collectives revealed for 2026 Whitney Biennial
The exhibition, co-curated by Whitney Museum of American Art staffers Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, will feature artists from 25 states and Puerto Rico, plus “places marked by the reach of US power”
At Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art, the anti-action art of Japan’s women artists finds a new lease of life
“Exhibitions weren’t held, research wasn’t done,” says the curator of a new show on a forgotten generation
The best exhibitions of 2025, as chosen by curators and museum directors
From Wolfgang Tillmans at Centre Pompidou to Linder at the Hayward, these are the shows that stood out this year
Made in LA biennial contemplates wildfires and immigrant arrests
The Hammer Museum hosts 28 artists' projects while looking back on a tumultuous year in California’s biggest city
Paris exhibition presents exceptional jewels—but Louvre heist treasures missing from line up
Three major pieces, stolen in the October robbery, are absent from the otherwise glittering presentation
‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency’: entire Nan Goldin series gets first-ever UK show
An exhibition at Gagosian brings all 126 images together, marking 40 years since Goldin published the seminal series
Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ planned exhibition on displacement of Palestinians sparks outpouring of support and criticism
The museum's upcoming “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba, Past and Present” has the support of Canadian Palestinian organisations and some Jewish groups, but has been denounced by others who fear it “will ignore key issues”





























