Today's directors are focused on figures—and not always for the right reasons

From creating “experiences” to being fashion-friendly, museums are getting savvy at driving visitors to their exhibitions. Here are some tricks of the trade

The exhibition opening in April at the Museum of Fine Arts is billed as the artist’s biggest-ever solo show in Germany

The New York museum's Heavenly Bodies exhibition came first even though curator “never set out to create a hit”

Escape fairtigue with gallery shows across the city, from Mary Corse and Louise Bourgeois to Tishan Hsu and Richard Lin

His most recent works are on display at the gallery’s Grand Marine Center venue, while earlier pieces are on view at its stand at Art Basel Hong Kong

This graphic show in the former police station Tai Kwun comes with age restrictions

From Emma Kunz's powerful abstract drawings at the Serpentine Gallery to Mike Nelson's industrial sculptures at Tate Britain

Performers will reflect the "fluidity between binaries" across full suite of spaces in the Tanks

From the "computer cowgirl" Gretchen Bender to Girault de Prangey's haunting snapshots of the past

Serpentine Gallery presents the first UK exhibition of the mystical Swiss artist’s geometric drawings

New exhibition in Italy shows videos from Petr Davydtchenko's past three years living exclusively off road-kill

Exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation explores how Pharaohs and Christians alike went in for vandalising and “killing” icons

New exhibition in London shows negative ideas around Jewish people have a long history, in which artists have played their part—and continue to do so

From the collaborative creations of the Chicago Imagists at Goldsmiths CCA to the reopening of John Soane's Pitzhanger Manor

Visitors of a certain age may well be shocked to find that ultimately the Russian artist loathed the Bolsheviks as much as he did the tsars

From a meditation on power to female sexual awakening

The enormously productive painter wielded the fastest of brushes on often huge canvases, suffusing them with Spanish sun and colour

The 14th edition of the international exhibition in the United Arab Emirates includes more than 80 artists with over 60 new commissions

The museums are pooling the divided collections of Sergei Shchukin and Morozov brothers for a quartet of exhibitions

The African American artist is known for work exploring race relations and gun use in the US

First exhibition in Austria reveals Abstract Expressionist’s identification with the work of the Old Masters

Munich exhibition explores the experimental works of Georgiana Houghton, Hilma af Klint and Emma Kunz

From Henry Moore’s Helmet Heads at the Wallace Collection to Renaissance nudes at the Royal Academy of Arts

As the Australian artist's major retrospective opens in Adelaide, we speak to him about his time as a war artist in Afghanistan and his campaign against the death penalty

The Thriller star's estate is reportedly suing HBO for $100m over the Leaving Neverland documentary

An exhibition focuses on The Birth of the World, a 1925 painting in which the artist combined painterly spontaneity with a calligraphic deliberation

The Met Breuer and Public Art Fund showcase Siah Armajani, the Iranian-born artist whose work mixes philosophy and whimsy