Exhibitions
From Dante’s Hell to Zelda: rare fantasy map collection goes on view in Zurich
Cartographical works tied to famous works of fiction will feature in an exhibition at Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Police and firefighters break into gallery after sculpture is mistaken for a person in distress
The sculpture, of an art preparator whose torso is concealed in a crate with their legs sticking out, prompted a late-night rescue mission at Vancouver’s Access Gallery
Houston exhibition explores memory and mythmaking in the American landscape
‘Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee’ brings together work of Beverly Buchanan and Dionne Lee that highlights histories hidden in the environment
Rembrandt self-portrait returns to German city 80 years after it was illegally removed
The work is on loan to the exhibition ‘Rembrandt 1632: The Creation of a Brand’ at the Ducal Museum Gotha
‘We are united’: King Charles III and President Macron attend private preview of London's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition
Likely commissioned in France but made in England, the tapestry could have been called ‘the Canterbury Embroidery’ joked the King in a speech
The Big Review: Frida, The Making of an Icon ★★★½
Tate show provides a decent selection of the artist’s work but somewhat unravels in its attempt to fully assess her star status
New cultural collaborations between Korea and Japan explore an often troubled shared history
An exhibition that has travelled from Yokohama to Gwacheon looks at painful, and sometimes neglected, episodes from the countries’ past
Five shows to see during Seoul art week
There are plenty of exhibitions to see beyond the fairs
Metropolitan Museum and designer John Galliano cancel planned Costume Institute exhibition amid backlash
A chorus of Jewish community leaders, donors, politicians and others criticised the Met’s decision to honour Galliano in light of a 2011 conviction for an antisemitic hate crime
Comment | Felix Gonzalez-Torres's major survey in Madrid shows how his art was both stridently political and gently lyrical
The exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofía demonstrates the wealth of meanings in the artist's work
‘We don't think it should be controversial to talk about these subjects’: Bonniers Konsthall opens exhibition on art as antifascist resistance ahead of Swedish election
The group show ‘The Defeated: The Aesthetics of Resistance 2026’, which opened in Stockholm this week, is inspired by the antifascist, postwar literature of German-Swedish writer Peter Weiss
Curveball at the Art Gallery of Ontario as Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dylan Cease showcases painting skills
Cease, who took up painting in 2022, displayed one of his works at the revered Toronto gallery and launched a line of merchandise benefiting the institution
Artist Piers Secunda creates paintings from ashes of Ukrainian buildings bombed by Russia
Works in the exhibition “Nature Morte”, on display at Fitzrovia Gallery, are accompanied by open-source information about individuals identified by the Ukrainian governmen as complicit in war crimes
‘These are party houses aren't they?’ Why Britain's stately homes are opening up to contemporary art
Showing works by artists including Tracey Emin and Phyllida Barlow over the summer is helping to attract new audiences and bolster income for historic buildings
Young adults with experience of having parents in prison to curate exhibition at London’s Southbank Centre
Rock, Paper, Scissors will bring together more than 200 works by people in criminal justice settings
Sydney’s A$915m Powerhouse Parramatta museum announces opening date and plans for ambitious space-themed exhibition
Plans for the institution’s five inaugural shows have been revealed
Comment | A Henry Moore exhibition at Kew highlights the uneasy relationship between art and nature
The great bronze brutalist forms seem more to suggest the impossibility of returning to natural innocence
At the Venice Biennale, collateral exhibitions embrace the possibilities of digital art
Both AI-generated art and digital art have had a tough time lately, but the 61st Venice Biennale offers the digitally-minded some work to feel good about
Dresden’s star Correggio altarpiece, newly restored, will anchor major exhibition
The High Renaissance master’s “Madonna of St Sebastian” shows off its colours after nearly four years of treatment
Hurvin Anderson commission to feature in ‘Beyond Bayeux’ exhibition spotlighting contemporary British tapestries
The work, made for the sexcentenary of Oxford's Lincoln College, will be shown alongside other artist-designed tapestries woven at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh
Heart of gold: exhibitions tune into Peter Simensky's sculptural radios and celebrate his legacy
The late artist’s ‘pyrite radios’ feature alongside works by his friends, students and collaborators at the Maine College of Art & Design
Louvre to lend Islamic art treasures to the Smithsonian
Upcoming exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, will feature 26 works from the Louvre, some of which have never been shown in the US
Treasures from Ancient Egypt’s ‘Golden City’, and the stories of the people who made them, revealed in San Francisco show
Twenty artefacts from Pharaoh Amenhotep III's abandoned city, discovered on Luxor’s west bank in 2021, are part of the exhibition at the de Young Museum
Artists visualise environmental fragility and resilience on New York’s Governors Island
A new public work by Alan Michelson and an exhibition by Leslie Wayne explore climate change and fragile ecosystems
Low Kee Hong chosen to curate Biennale of Sydney's next edition
Low, who is the creative director of Factory International in Manchester, will lead the artistic team for the prominent Australian biennial’s 26th edition
A lifetime of war: meet the 94-year-old Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Dubovyk
Having survived his country’s numerous adversaries from Stalin to Putin, the artist has opened his first large-scale retrospective in Kyiv
European Union officially pulls €2m Venice Biennale funding over Russian participation
“Cultural events, funded by European taxpayers’ money, should safeguard democratic values—values which are not respected in today’s Russia,” a European Commission spokesman said
Yoko Ono’s most famous performance art piece cuts both ways in Los Angeles
The artist MPA put her twist on the seminal "Cut Piece" at Redcat, in tandem with the Broad’s presentation of Ono’s traveling retrospective
A fresh appreciation of Victorian painter Richard Dadd, who was haunted by mental illness
The most comprehensive show of the artist since the 1970s brings together more than 100 works at the Royal Academy of Arts in London
New York exhibition explores how the Wiener Werkstätte preserved the human touch of handcraft
Show at the Jewish Museum looks at the movement founded by members of the Vienna Secession, who rejected Bauhaus's mass-production ethos




























