Exhibitions

The Big Review | Caravaggio 2025 at Palazzo Barberini, Rome ★★★

Bringing together 24 compelling paintings by the Baroque master is a fine achievement, but this show does not live up to its lofty promise of rediscovering Caravaggio’s art in a new light

The nonconformist: Ben Shahn is honoured in a ‘homecoming’ show at New York's Jewish Museum

The US artist and activist tackled the social issues of his time, from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War

In a new exhibition, the British Museum traces the shared roots of three ancient Indian religions

Devotional art reveals how Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism have more in common than is widely believed

With a cut and a caress: Italian exhibition explores Rebecca Horn’s legacy

Show at Castello di Rivoli includes installations, sculptures, videos, films and drawings by the artist, who died last September

Immediately after the Second World War, how did six exhibitions attempt to make sense of the atrocities?

In a new show, The Deutsches Historisches Museum explores how institutions in cities across Europe reacted to Nazi horrors

Face to face: at Pallant House Gallery, meet the artists who paint, draw and sculpt other artists

Opening on 17 May, “Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists” explores the tradition of portraiture among artistic peers, from the Bloomsbury Group to the British Black Arts Movement

Left at the altar: Luc Tuymans's paintings to replace Tintoretto works at Venetian church

The Belgian artist’s works will hang in place of “The Last Supper” and “The People of Israel in the Desert” while the masterpieces undergo restoration

Hotly debated Caravaggio becomes ‘first by the artist to be shown in India’

“Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy” will be on display at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi until 18 May

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Tate announces 2025 Turner Prize shortlist

The four nominated artists will take part in an exhibition in Bradford later this year as part of the UK City of Culture festival

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Wafaa Bilal: ‘I see democracy slowly eroding now’

On the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Iraqi American artist reflects on how his work grapples with the personal impact of political power

Oklahoma slam dunk: Indigenous artist invites visitors to shoot hoops as part of his latest show

Alongside his paintings and sculptures, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds has created two public art installations in the form of basketball courts, where visitors are encouraged to play a friendly game

'These strings are connective tissues between points and cultures': Jennie C. Jones on her sonic sculptures on the Metropolitan Museum's roof

The artist's installation on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof Garden explores the outer limits of sound and form

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Prestigious prize for women artists celebrates 20 years with Florence show

The nine past winners of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women—Andrea Buttner and Laure Prouvost among them—are all presenting work at the Palazzo Strozzi

The Big Review | Paris Noir at the Centre Pompidou ★★★★

This carefully paced show—one of the last before the Centre Pompidou’s five-year closure—marks a turning point in French exhibitions addressing the country’s colonial past

What’s on: Our pick of some of the best exhibitions to see during Art Dubai

Contemporary and performance art, plus a sprawling survey of sub-Saharan art are all on offer during the fair

Imran Qureshi’s site-specific work in Dubai reimagines traditional forms from his native Pakistan

The artist, who teaches miniature painting in Lahore, is showing his new work at Concrete gallery during Art Dubai

Lismore Castle’s art gallery celebrates 20th anniversary with an exhibition dedicated to the kunstkammer

Artists draw inspiration from elements of the castle including its cultivated gardens, among the oldest in Ireland

British Museum to loan ‘some of the rarest surviving examples’ of Ice Age art to UK's City of Culture

The objects, including what the museum describes as England's oldest known figurative art work, will head to Bradford for a major exhibition opening this summer

The future is sexy—at least in Syd Mead’s visionary science-fiction art

The late artist’s first retrospective, at a pop-up space in Manhattan, offers an idealised, futuristic take on the 21st century

Was Van Gogh’s mutilation of his ear connected to his brother’s engagement?

The impending marriage was not the fundamental cause of Vincent’s mental health crisis, but he was very close to his brother and had ambivalent feelings about the arrival of a spouse

Yinka Shonibare’s first major solo show in Africa opens in Madagascar

The exhibition at the Fondation H in Antananarivo includes the British Nigerian artist’s 6,000-book installation The African Library

‘We tried to train it like it was a kid in art school’: artist David Salle on using an AI model to enhance his painting practice

The New York-based painter’s work with machine learning generates backgrounds based on his previous work, which he then transforms into new paintings—with some of the results now on show in London

Patients can be prescribed visits to Emily Carr exhibition under new Vancouver Art Gallery mental health initiative

As part of Canada’s national nature prescription programme, healthcare professionals can send visitors to the gallery in support of their psychological wellbeing

Tatiana Trouvé and Thomas Schütte have taken over Pinault’s Venetian galleries: here are the works not to miss

From subversions of the “reclining woman“ motif to an urban cosmos, the works in these sprawling shows offer an insight into the diversity of the two artists’ practices

National Gallery of Art marking 250th anniversary of US with loans to ten museums across the country

The initiative, already underway and continuing through May 2026, comes as the Trump administration has pressured arts funders and institutions to prioritise semiquincentennial projects

‘I am glad you are recording what they have done to me’: portraits from Belsen concentration camp among exhibits in London anniversary show

An exhibition marking 80 years since the camp was liberated “takes a fresh look at a subject that many of us think we are familiar with”, says the director of the Wiener Holocaust Library