Exhibitions

San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora marks 20 years with a show about Blackness and the cosmos

For the occasion, the institution has also remodelled its lobby and put together a separate exhibition looking back at its history

At a Los Angeles exhibition, contemporary artists face off with decommissioned Confederate statues

The show at the Brick and the Museum of Contemporary Art addresses the US’s fraught racial history—featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments alongside works by Kara Walker, Leonardo Drew, Torkwase Dyson and others

Sound and vision: artists take to the decks for Peter Doig’s Serpentine show

The painter’s latest exhibition includes a vintage sound system, through which Doig and a roster of his famous friends, including Brian Eno and David Byrne, will play their favourite tracks

The greatest Cypriot show in Florida: Ringling Museum opens its first permanent ancient-art gallery

The project has been almost 100 years in the making, when one of the Ringling brothers bought thousands of works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and took them home to Sarasota

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'It's about world-making': Tavares Strachan on his expansive new Lacma exhibition

The artist sheds light onto his interdisciplinary approach to excavating "invisible" histories

Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris opens epic Gerhard Richter retrospective

The 93-year-old German artist is showing 275 works, from his breakthrough photographic paintings of the 1960s to last year’s ink-cloud drawings

At London's Barbican, Lucy Raven chronicles the destruction of a California dam

The artist’s video installation explores devastating impacts on the environment and Indigenous communities

Freedom of expression: Tate exhibition offers an overdue showcase of Nigeria’s Modernist artists

The show’s 300 works reveal how the country’s artists celebrated their culture and challenged colonialism

These artists want your help distracting fossil fuel executives

In their collaborative and solo projects, currently on view at Pioneer Works in New York, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne cheekily empower visitors to fight climate change

Wayne Thiebaud’s first UK show reveals the hidden depths of his deceptively simple paintings

At the Courtauld Gallery, the artist's pastel-coloured works are clearly shown to be still lifes with bite

Indigenous artists transform works at Metropolitan Museum in unsanctioned augmented reality project

The digital interventions by 17 Native artists, launched on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, put pointed twists on works in the museum’s American Wing

With Ruth Asawa, MoMA is set to open its biggest show ever by a woman artist

But the museum is not promoting the show that way—and might not even have registered its record-breaking size

An exhibition in New York City takes on censorship in the art world

As political art becomes increasingly subject to censorship in Trump's America, the free speech-focused organisation Art At A Time Like This organised a poignant show

‘I want to haunt people’: Palestinian artist's London exhibition interrogates myth, history and the erasure of heritage

Opening as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas takes effect, Dima Srouji's show shares stories of a lifetime under occupation

Comment | Museums can't get enough of anniversary exhibitions—but surely there's better ways to serve the public

This year museums are falling over themselves to celebrate Robert Rauschenberg’s 100th birthday. But, asks Julia Halperin, who is it really all for?

An exhibition on the potato in art? Only Van Gogh could pull it off

Vincent once painted “rat’s back” potatoes which, despite their name, are very tasty

Beijing exhibition exploring Xinjiang heritage accused of ‘slipping into cultural appropriation and misrepresentation’

An anonymous collective claims a show held at Maca Art Center, featuring work of the Beijing-based artist Dan Er, conflated the cultures of Xinjiang’s 47 ethnic groups and contained inaccurate generalisations

Is an auction house's loss a gallery's gain? Pilar Ordovas collaborates with former Sotheby's specialists for African and Oceanic art show

The exhibition, Dialogues, pairs 20th and 21st century art by the likes of Picasso, Adam Pendleton and David Hammons with the objects that inspired it

Five must-see UK exhibitions this Black History Month

From the Modernist art movement in Nigeria to Jennie Baptiste’s seminal works and stories of the Windrush generation in Cambridge

Introducing Erich Heckel, the unsung driving force of Die Brücke

Neue Galerie in New York presents the US's first museum show dedicated to the unassuming German Expressionist

The rooms where the magic happened: National Gallery of Ireland exhibition explores Picasso’s studios

This intimate show examines the spaces where Picasso's art was made and how the works were put together

With works by Munch and Mamma Andersson, the British Museum reveals the darkness of Nordic noir

The survey brings together more than 150 works by 100 different artists for a peek behind the clichés of apparently idyllic Nordic life

Aichi Triennale confronts war, memory and environmental collapse

The opening festivities for the exhibition’s timely sixth edition were marked by protests over local ties to Israel

From royal visitors to extortionate eBay sales: new book offers rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of Vermeer blockbuster

A collection of essays about the Rijksmuseum‘s show also fascinating insights into the struggle for loans and what accompanying research revealed about its 17th-century subject

BTS member’s art collection will go on show at SFMoMA

The museum will display around 200 works from RM’s personal collection and the museum’s holdings

Italy's art police seize 21 suspected forgeries from Dalí exhibition

If the works are found to be fakes, exhibition organisers may face criminal charges

Georges de La Tour, once a victim of the academy’s collective amnesia, can be seen in a new light in Paris

Musée Jacquemart-André stages city’s first show in decades dedicated to the artist once favoured by Louis XIII, who later fell into relative obscurity

Christian Marclay's ‘Doors’ marks opening of Brooklyn Museum's new video art gallery

The museum's new Moving Image Gallery is its first dedicated space for showing durational art

Tate Britain’s Lee Miller exhibition seeks to go beyond her mythology

The survey focuses on the photographer’s work rather than her colourful backstory