Exhibitions
Critics, scholars—and even museum’s own curator—condemn decision to postpone Philip Guston show over Ku Klux Klan imagery
Move is deemed “cowardly” and “patronising” after joint statement from host museums including National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and London’s Tate Modern
Sell the Michelangelo or lose 150 staff? The Royal Academy of Arts’s Covid-19 conundrum
Plus, the curator Legacy Russell talks about her new book Glitch Feminism
New Jersey artist residency turns their campus into a free drive-in theatre
Gardenship in Kearny Point has been hosting video art exhibitions and film screenings during the pandemic, including the Jean Michel-Basquiat cult classic Downtown 81 this weekend
What can we learn from the Salem Witch Trials?
A historical exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum traces the political and religious forces that led to the executions of innocent people
‘If they don’t have a story behind them, what’s the use?’ Elijah Pierce's woodcarvings portray America in the 20th century
Images of the Kennedys, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Watergate scandal go on show at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia
Virtual photography show reveals modern Lebanon's many layers of tragedy
Lebanon Then and Now: Photography from 2006 to 2020 hosted by Washington, DC's Middle East Institute is both timely and prescient
The Big Review: Gauguin and the Impressionists at the Royal Academy of Arts
The London exhibition has many highlights, but viewing this long-planned show is unlike anyone could have envisaged before the coronavirus pandemic
Rosewater soda and a coronavirus memorial: what to see at the Brent Biennial
From Dawn Mellor's George Michael mural to Rasheed Araeen's anarchic library installation
Japan's leading photography festival comes to Kyoto this weekend
The eighth edition of Kyotographie will include exhibitions in venues ranging from traditional wooden townhouses to shopping arcades
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Jadé Fadojutimi's purposeful paintings at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery to Trevor Paglen's floral AI animations at Pace
Van Gogh exhibitions return—exclusive news all the way up to 2024
From olive groves to peat moors: shows coming up in Dallas, Amsterdam, Detroit, Vienna, Assen, Columbus and Santa Barbara
Incarceration is part of the American experience for many—its art is explored in a major new show at MoMA PS1
Exhibition in New York will include works made by those who are part of—or who have ties to—the largest prison population in the world
Reap what we sow: Trevor Paglen’s new flower works take an allegorical view of AI
Created during quarantine, the artist’s Bloom series is about the fragility of life, and how computer systems interpret the complexity of humanity
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Danh Vo's millennia-spanning pastoral show at White Cube to Abbas Zahedi's rosewater sprinkler system at South London Gallery
Director of Yale Center for British Art embraces a global framework
Courtney J. Martin explains why it is time to reposition the Paul Mellon collection
Largest hoard of Bronze Age objects found in London—containing mysteries of city's ancient residents—goes on show
The Havering Hoard, which will be exhibited at the Museum of London, Docklands, was discovered two years ago and has never before been shown in its entirety
For no eyes only: Mark Bradford’s quarantine paintings push the bounds of virtual art viewing
For his first online exhibition, the artist hangs paintings made during lockdown in isolation in an empty space atop Hauser & Wirth’s LA gallery
Saatchi Gallery exhibits London’s graduate artists deprived of degree shows
The exhibition forms part of the education programme at the collector’s gallery which has now ‘transitioned into a charity’
Sanford Biggers show will highlight the unlikely role played by quilts in helping slaves flee to free states
Retrospective at the Bronx Museum in New York will also include the artist's mandala pieces
Tavares Strachan: 'I grew up not feeling empowered by art'
As a new show opens at Marian Goodman Gallery in London, the Bahamian artist explains why he feels schoolchildren, and not the art world, are his natural audience
Bangladeshi government officials storm protest performance in Dhaka
Organised by Drik Gallery, the event at Dhaka University aimed to highlight the extrajudicial killing of Bangladeshi civilians by government forces
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Raisa Kabir's transcontinental textiles to Toyin Ojih Odutola's epic cycle of queer, Black drawings
Art historian Aby Warburg’s groundbreaking image atlas reunited in Berlin after nearly a century
The Bilderatlas Mnemosyne—once derided by Ernst Gombrich—will appear in its fullest form since Warburg's final presentation
Exhibitions during Covid-19: museums turn to 'virtual couriers' to protect unchaperoned art
To overcome travel restrictions, registrars are using Zoom and other technologies to monitor works on loan remotely
Major Francis Bacon show to explore how animals fuelled artist's fascination with flesh
The exhibition Francis Bacon: Man and Beast at the Royal Academy of Arts in London next year will include the artist's final work—a painting of a bull
How to organise a biennial in the Covid era
Bangkok Art Biennale director on grappling with coronavirus constraints and displaying "sensitive" works
Private view: must-see gallery shows opening in September
From Danh Vo in London to Linda Stark in Los Angeles
Basel’s new culture hub puts Caribbean artists, Picasso and Klaus Littmann’s nature project in the mix
Delayed by coronavirus, the new Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger has opened with the promise of free entry and catalogues for visitors
Letting the art, and the visitors, breathe: a Covid-conscious Met and MoMA return from lockdown
Anxiety gives way to enlightenment as museums spring back to life