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

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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

Alice Christophe. With an introduction by Gareth Harris

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

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

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'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

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Aimee Dawson, Philippa Kelly and David Clack

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

Compiled by José da Silva

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”