Exhibitions

‘I like people who dare’: Peter Hujar’s moving and monumental photography comes to London

The complete range of the US photographer’s work—from rural Orange County to queer New York—is going on show at Raven Row

Alexej Jawlensky, friend of Wassily Kandinsky and Der Blaue Reiter artist, rides again in new show

An exhibition of the Russian artist's work at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark will include examples of his obsessively painted single face series

The self-styled ‘first English abstract artist’ Paule Vézelay gets an overdue exhibition

The show at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol will explore the little-known artist’s remarkable life and career

Paris show reveals Francis Picabia's late-in-life change of direction

An exhibition at Hauser & Wirth explores how the master of genre hopping embraced an entirely different style during his final decade

‘The event as spectacle’: how Weegee’s photographs were more than just documentations of life

An exhibition at the International Center of Photography will explore the larger-than-life photographer’s ability to create sensational images, whether photographing the hoodlums of New York or stars of Hollywood

Tadek Beutlich, from Second World War soldier to master weaver in the picturesque village of Ditchling

An exhibition at the Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft untangles the life and work of the Polish-born artist who reinvented craft weaving as an art form

Diaryblog

En suite art? London exhibition opens in an Airbnb

East End show highlights the ‘commodification of the domestic’ say the organisers

The Year Ahead 2025: market predictions, the big shows and openings—podcast

From the reimagined Frick Collection to Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern

‘We deserved a better time on this earth’: New York’s Palo Gallery presents Palestinian photography

Three artists living in exile collaborated on the exhibition "Longing: In Between Homelands"

National Gallery in London’s Van Gogh blockbuster to open all night as final day approaches

The exhibition, which will host a 24-hour opening during its closing weekend, has been one of the most visited in the museum’s history

Christie’s to host exhibition of works from owner François Pinault’s collection in Los Angeles

The non-selling portrait exhibition will be on display at Christie’s Beverly Hills during the Frieze Los Angeles fair

The Big Review | Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c. 1504 at the Royal Academy ★★★★

The small but provocative survey offers a stimulating view on which of the Old Masters launched the High Renaissance

All the new art to see on London's Underground in 2025

As part of the Art on the Underground 2025 programme, Ahmet Öğüt, Rudy Loewe and Rory Pilgrim will all unveil works around the city's transport hubs

Dublin celebrates three pioneering women who changed the face of 20th-century art in Ireland

The Hugh Lane Gallery and the National Gallery of Ireland are showing the work of the modernists Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone and of their predecessor Sarah Purser—artist, collector, organiser and a force of nature behind the revival of Irish arts and crafts

Ancient Torlonia treasures head for the US and Canada

Discussions continue about reopening the Torlonia Museum in Rome, says foundation director

Bengal Biennale debuts sprawling inaugural edition

Set across 27 venues in two cities, the exhibition included more than 100 artists from past and present

A bibliophile invites New Yorkers to engage with books that do not exist

A unique and artful exhibition of imaginary books is now on view at the Grolier Club

2024 in review: the biggest stories and the best shows - podcast

From the devastating war in Gaza to art attacks in museums, our editors analyse the year's biggest stories

Seeing is believing: Gérôme and Pakistan shows mark 20 years of museum building in Qatar

Exhibitions offer fresh looks at a once globally famous French 19th-century Orientalist artist and Pakistan’s embrace of modernity

Naomi Beckwith named artistic director of Documenta in 2027

The deputy director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum says she is "humbled by the breadth of this responsibility"

Jean-Michel Basquiat's love of the Alps celebrated in new exhibition

The show, at Hauser & Wirth St Moritz, looks at the artist's visits to his Swiss dealer Bruno Bischofberger, when he would go cross-country skiing and visit agricultural shows

‘While there are dictators, no one can feel safe’: projects marking anniversaries of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine emphasise need for global vigilance

Among the initiatives launched to mark both 1,000 days since the invasion and its approaching third anniversary is an exhibition in Kharkiv exploring how the concept of safety “has been profoundly redefined by the war”

Gerhard Richter once thought film wasn't for him—in Rome, his latest exhibition proves how wrong he was

The artist's 36-minute film, ‘Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019–24)’, is currently on show at Gagosian

Sajan Mani's first solo show in India confronts caste and the history of rubber

At Shrine Empire gallery in New Delhi, the Dalit artist reconsiders the past of his native Kerala

Comment | The exhibitions I adored this year—and the one I didn’t

2024 highlights from Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper's contributing editor

What links Van Gogh, Trump, a golden toilet and Cattelan's $6.2m banana?

This unlikely grouping is part of an astonishing story involving New York’s Guggenheim Museum