Exhibitions
Never before exhibited, Francis Bacon’s first screaming Pope goes on show at London’s Gagosian gallery
Sinister besuited figure, painted in Monaco in 1946, was only recently rediscovered
UK's £120m post-Brexit culture festival launches at last, lighting up Scotland cathedral
Government-funded initiative Unboxed costs £120m and will include an oil rig installation from the North Sea
Camille Norment engulfs Dia warehouse with a ‘vibrational catharsis’
Norment, who previously represented the Nordic Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennial, has devised a minimal sonic experience for the Dia Art Foundation’s second exhibition in its revamped Chelsea space
In old photographs seen anew, Dor Guez brings the multiplicity of history into focus
The artist’s largest institutional show to date, at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, taps into universal themes, often by way of deeply personal images
Revolutionary Rijksmuseum exhibition reckons with Dutch colonial conflict in Indonesia
Timely show narrates Indonesia's fight for independence from the Netherlands through the life stories of 23 "eyewitnesses"
What will happen to Russia's treasures on loan in London and Paris?
Imperial Fabergé eggs and Impressionist masterpieces are some of the works currently in shows in Europe
London show shines a light on lesser-known post-war artists
An exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery explores the wealth of creativity that took place as Britain recovered from trauma and upheaval
Traumas recent and historic are aired and treated in museum showcase of North Carolina artists
An exhibition at the Duke University museum shifts the focus to the local art scene with works by 30 artists living or born in the state
How an artist’s East London studio threatened by developers turned into an experimental space of queer solidarity
Ridley Road Project Space, which ran for six months in Dalston, will close in March
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Danica Lundy's disquieting tableaux of teenage angst to Claudette Schreuders's introspective doubles
Artists’ studios: the fight for affordable spaces
Plus, photographing Paula Rego at work
Manchester gallery director forced out over Palestine statement in exhibition
Alistair Hudson, head of the Whitworth, leaves over text in Forensic Architecture's show last year
‘Making visible experimentation, failure, boredom’: Whitechapel Gallery show dives into artists’ studios
The gallery’s outdoing director Iwona Blazwick tells us about the new exhibition and why she sees it as a clarion call to city dwellers
A brush with... Ai Weiwei
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Marcel Duchamp to ancient Chinese ceramics—and why Romanticism is not for him
Experience the world as a spider in Tomás Saraceno’s new exhibition at The Shed
The Argentine artist’s first major US survey features an immersive, multi-sensory, 95-foot diameter installation that gives viewers the experience of being in a spider web
‘As radical as Magritte’: cutting-edge craft of Carlo Crivelli comes to Birmingham
Ikon Gallery puts on a survey of the overlooked Italian painter
Zineb Sedira—first artist of Algerian heritage to represent France at Venice Biennale—reveals plans for pavilion focused on activist filmmaking
Project shines a light on the cultural exchange between Algeria, France and Italy during the 1960s
New takes on Old Masters in a landmark of Old Hollywood
New York-based Half Gallery has taken over the home of Dorothy Arzner, one of the most successful lesbians in Hollywood in the first half of the 20th century
After exhaustive performances and pandemic stress, EJ Hill takes a break to paint
The Los Angeles artist is showing a suite of new floral works at Occidental College
Forgotten chapter of Renaissance and Baroque painting to be set in stone
An exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum will look at how artists incorporated the unique properties of polished stone into their paintings
Noah Davis’s paintings come back home to his Los Angeles museum
After stops in New York and London, the late artist’s works will be on view at the Underground Museum, which he and his wife founded
Warhol and Basquiat on the stage in London and Faith Ringgold's retrospective at New York's New Museum
Plus, Betye Saar remakes a mural in Los Angeles
How artists and amateur photographers used postcards to great creative effect
Atlanta’s High Museum showcases the work of the Hungarian-born photographer André Kertész, while MFA Boston draws on its archive for an exhibition of photos by unknown enthusiasts
Enrique Martínez Celaya puts his mark on the Los Angeles map
The Cuban American painter currently has two solo exhibitions, a curatorial project and more on view in the city
Womanhouse—the original matrix for feminist art—turns 50
Anat Ebgi gallery and Judy Chicago’s Through the Flower exhibition space are marking the occasion
Major exhibition in Libya aims to prepare for a surge of archaeological activity once political stability returns
As the two countries look to rekindle historical bonds, a new show shines a light on an archaeological partnership spanning more than a century
Jenny Holzer highlights the ‘sheer murderousness’ of Louise Bourgeois’s work in unique collaboration
Show at the Kunstmuseum Basel brings together text works by the late artist in a year that will see three major Bourgeois exhibitions
A brush with... Allison Katz
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Degas to British sports radio