Exhibitions
Eight exhibitions to see during London's Frieze Week
From Cezanne's love of Provence at Tate Modern to cracking the Ancient Egyptian code at the British Museum
Hit painter Issy Wood drops pop music career after remix
The fast-rising artist, who recently released a solo album, is focused on her paintings, including a new exhibition in New York
With upcoming Picasso exhibition, comedian-turned-curator Hannah Gadsby will have the last laugh
The exhibition will address the issues of "misogyny, masculinity, creativity, and ‘genius’" that Gadsby raised in her celebrated Netflix special "Nanette"
Vermeer at the National Gallery in Washington, DC declared not the real thing
The downgrading follows a study of the six paintings in the museum's collection thought to be by the Dutch master, which are now the subject of an exhibition detailing the findings
Kent Monkman: the trickster poking fun at the art historical canon
Ahead of his Royal Ontario Museum exhibition, the Cree artist tells us about the humour in his work, why he uses the history painting format, and how he hopes his work brings to light atrocities suffered by Indigenous peoples
Van Dyck or copies? The curious case of the socialite, the scholar and the Old Masters
Plus, Joan Mitchell and Claude Monet at the Fondation Louis Vuitton and England's Tudors head to New York
Amsterdam exhibition shines light on Klimt's artistic debt to Van Gogh and contemporaries
Klimt discovered Van Gogh in 1903—and took inspiration from the Dutch painter for his early landscapes
Tunis's citywide biennial art festival returns with edition dedicated to photography and moving image
The sixth edition of Jaou takes over public sites such as advertising billboards and Avenue Habib Bourguiba, the historic downtown site of the country’s famous 2011 uprising
David Hockney’s latest floral iPad works to blossom at five different galleries, from Los Angeles to Paris
LA Louver, Gray, Pace, Annely Juda and Galerie Lelong team up to show the same works at more or less the same time in five different cities
Orange County Museum of Art carries its history forward with inaugural exhibitions in new building
From a show honouring the women who founded the institution to a call-back to a mid-1970s Light and Space exhibition, the OCMA is moving forward and looking back
Two Qatar exhibitions put Doha's vast forthcoming Art Mill Museum in the spotlight
The show will include contemporary art commissions by artists such as French-born Yasmina Benabderrahmane and Istanbul-based Ali Kazma
Cézanne's famous nude scene was once a British scandal—now it's the star of Tate's blockbuster exhibition
The Bathers drew protests in 1964 when London's National Gallery bought it for £475,000 and there were fears it would be vandalised
A glorious show of Tudor royal splendour to open at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
Masterpieces amassed in Renaissance England are brought together in an exhibition freed from expectations to tell a “hallowed national narrative”
Immersive Anne Imhof exhibition—planned for Moscow and cancelled due to war in Ukraine—opens in Amsterdam
The celebrated German artist has created an installation at the Stedelijk Museum that marks a step away from the elaborate performance works for which she is best known
The first major ‘pandemic art’ comes to the Whitney Museum
Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki’s eight-part film "2 Lizards" was acquired by the Whitney and the Museum of Modern Art in 2021
A Danny Boyle dance show inspired by The Matrix and an inflatable Kusama room: Manchester's new art space set to open next year
Factory International is over budget and four years late, but will create 1,500 new jobs and inject a projected £1.1bn into the city's economy over the next decade, city council say
The Big Review: Milton Avery at the Royal Academy of Arts in London ★★★★☆
The American artist was a brilliant colourist who pushed figuration to its limits but never went the way of “the abstract boys”. Plus, what the other critics said about the show
Sensation, 25 years on: the show thrust the YBAs and Charles Saatchi into the mainstream—but not everyone was happy
The 1997 exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts was a masterclass in art PR, with many of the works by artists like Tracey Emin and Marcus Harvey hitting the headlines
Provence at the heart of Tate Modern show dedicated to Paul Cézanne, the ‘artist’s artist’
London exhibition will also include Cézannes once owned by artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Matisse and Picasso
Van Gogh in America: Detroit’s exhibition set to be a revelation
US collectors and museums came late to Vincent’s paintings, yet eventually amassed the finest works outside the Netherlands—plus a few embarrassing fakes
Cy Twombly double-header in Los Angeles shows two sides of the still-influential artist
An exhibition at the Getty focuses on Twombly’s early fascination with ancient Mediterranean cultures while a show of his later work at Gagosian gives a sense of how his practice changed and matured
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





























