Exhibitions
In new exhibition, timeless favourite Frida Kahlo finds fresh relevance during a time of isolation and illness
Delayed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, a show of the beloved Mexican artist’s work prepares to open in the Chicago suburbs with a full slate of virtual programming
Rania Matar's hauntingly beautiful lockdown portraits go on show in Florida—see them here
Lebanese-American photographer captured images of her neighbours at their homes in Massachusetts and collected their stories along the way
The historic Indian Congress is reunited in Omaha by artist Wendy Red Star
The Apsáalooke artist has created a major new installation for her solo show at the Joslyn Art Museum using photographs of the 500 delegates taken in 1898
Smelly shows, fast cars and a swamp in a nightclub: the strangest art exhibitions coming up in 2021
Other highlights include a show on famous animals and the most lavish banquets in art history
Getty hands out more than $5m in grants for 2024 Pacific Standard Time festival
The next iteration of the region-wide exhibition series will focus on art and science
Executed Chinese prisoners likely used in UK exhibition
Cadavers on display in 'Real Bodies' show were provided by Dalian-based firm known to have acquired corpses from police
Fragile yet forceful glass works by Ai Weiwei, Fred Wilson, Fiona Banner and others travel from Venice to Florida
An exhibition of contemporary glass art opens at the Boca Raton Museum of Art
On eve of US inauguration, a chance to visit the president's office
Oval Office replica is a popular element of New-York Historical Society exhibition about the presidency
Kara Walker's secret archive to go on show at Kunstmuseum Basel this summer
Around 600 unseen drawings, collages, studies and writings will flood the museum's ground-floor galleries, providing a window into the American artist's work
New hope that ancient Palmyra will be rebuilt after Isis damage
Deal between the Syrian government and Russian masonry body builds on country’s research into state of archaeological site
Death row inmate designs garden installation by instructing university students through letters
Timothy Young, currently incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison, is a key contributor to the University-led art project, Barring Freedom, that aims to put the US criminal justice system in the dock
Treats for Van Gogh fans in 2021: exhibitions, museum openings and books
We look ahead at the events to enjoy this year—assuming coronavirus doesn't scupper them
Our picks of the must-see shows to see in New York in January
From new paintings by Ed Ruscha to Shirin Neshat’s New Mexico dreams
The biggest art exhibitions opening around the world in 2021
The new year's must-see shows include Vermeer and Botticelli blockbusters; major Jasper Johns and Yayoi Kusama retrospectives; and sweeping surveys on Iran, slavery and queer art
Cai Guo-Qiang returns to China with a (virtual) bang in major new show at Beijing's Forbidden City Palace Museum
The Chinese artist has gone back to the mainland after a long stint in the US—but publicity for his retrospective appears muted
Three winter art walks you can enjoy in England this weekend
From Henry Moore's sculpture garden to five miles of towering works along London's first public art walk
Damien Hirst installs giant sculpture in middle of frozen St. Moritz Lake
UK artist is showing more than 40 works in his Mental Escapology exhibition in the Alpine Swiss city
Auckland Art Gallery’s biggest ever exhibition recounts 70 years of Maori art
Mega survey of more than 300 works forms “part of a bigger revisiting of Indigenous knowledge”
Storm King to install Sarah Sze sculpture in 2021—its first new permanent work in more than a decade
The outdoor sculpture park also plans to host an indoor show of her work, with social distancing rules in mind, and will unveil a new sculpture by Rashid Johnson that reflects on surviving a crisis
Botticelli bonanza in Paris next year with major show of masterpieces
New exhibition at Musée Jacquemart-André presents 15th-century artist as an entrepreneur and prolific designer
5,000 years in 350 objects: Victoria and Albert Museum reveals details about its epic 'immersive' Iran show
With ten sections covering ancient Iranian history to contemporary art, London museum plans to open delayed show in February
Revealed: the secrets behind Antonia, Modigliani’s ‘most complex work’
Researchers at C2RMF give an exclusive preview of their forensic study of all the artist's works in French museum collections
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Artemisia Gentileschi at the National Gallery to a transgressive show on Tantra
French museums dismayed as reopening pushed to 7 January
Three-week delay caused by rising cases of coronavirus in the country
Can artists change the world? MoMA show explores political art from the early 20th-century
The works on paper from the Merrill C. Berman Collection include designs for Communist posters and salad oil advertisements
ICA London to reopen early 2021 after closing for almost a year
Exhibition on advocacy group Tottenham Rights—with a focus on Mark Duggan shooting—scheduled for next Spring
No shows: the biggest cancelled exhibitions of 2020
From the saga over a controversially delayed Philip Guston show to an under appreciated female Old Master whose big moment never came
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Caroline Coon's hermaphroditic footballers to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's enigmatic portraits
Censored work showing faces of 4,000 French police officers goes on show in Berlin
Work was pulled after the intervention of France's interior minister amid protests against a new bill that would have criminalised the publication of images of law enforcement