NewsMuseums & Heritage
Middle East think-tank opens art gallery in Washington, DC
New space for Modern and contemporary art from the Arab world will put on five exhibitions a year
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Faena Festival aims to spiritually awaken Miami Beach
The second annual arts festival explores spirituality and ritual
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Met’s first façade commission to Jean-Marie Appriou’s surreal equines
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see during Berlin Art Week
From an artist occupation in an abandoned building to Ai Weiwei's return to his roots
BlogIn the frame
The Moaning Lisa? Pornhub commissions exhibition in LA
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Reem Fadda takes the reins at Abu Dhabi cultural foundation—but where is the emirate's Guggenheim?
Historic culture centre in UAE re-opens after 10 years with survey of trailblazing woman artist Najat Makki
PreviewBiennials & festivals
‘Post-industrial’ Biennale de Lyon to examine shifting social and economic experience of the region
As the largest edition of the biennial expands into an abandoned factory, we also roundup new festivals sprouting up around the world
NewsArt market
Sean Scully to take over Picasso’s Château de Boisgeloup
Sprawling exhibition marks Irish artist’s first with Almine Rech gallery
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Verrocchio's first major US survey to delve into his role in shaping the High Renaissance
The artist is best known as Leonardo’s teacher, but an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington aims to highlight his own technical accomplishment and inventiveness
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Drawing, singing, sleeping, eating, changing costumes: Nikhil Chopra’s nine-day campout at the Met
Moving from gallery to gallery like a nomadic traveller, the performance artist-in-residence will morph into a series of personae
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Helen Beard's sexually fluid paintings to Helene Schjerfbeck's unique Nordic Modernism
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From blasphemer to bookworm: Paris show reframes Francis Bacon's later works
Exhibition at the Centre Pompidou focuses on the artist’s post-pope period, which has received less critical examination
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Rubin Museum's meditation on “power” to the Costume Institute's celebration of camp
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Christian Marclay communes with Snapchat in a barrage of sounds and images at Lacma
Visitors undergo a chain of experiences generated by engineers’ algorithms
PreviewCommercial galleries
Private view: must-see gallery shows opening in September
New commercial gallery shows—from Baroque blackness in Chicago to flying saucers in London
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Bare necessities: would you brush up against naked performers to get inside Marina Abramovic’s 2020 London show?
Artist's famous nude performance—first done with Ulay—to be recreated in her retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts next year
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Columbia University exhibition retells the story of America by foregrounding 'black genius'
Featuring archival documents, vintage images and contemporary art, 20 and Odd aims to correct a narrative about a nation's power and identity
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Dior show smashes total attendance record at the V&A—but Alexander McQueen exhibition had more daily visitors
Exhibition of the late French designer had 594,000 visitors overall but was on for seven months
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David Bowie’s Tintoretto returns to Venice after more than 200 years
Belgian collector Marnix Neerman revealed as buyer as exhibition of masterpieces from Flemish collections opens at the Palazzo Ducale this week
ReviewExhibitions
As Prado becomes hub for Fra Angelico works, new show builds on museum's exceptional collection
Paintings by Florentine artist at Madrid institution are beautifully and sensitively displayed alongside an impressive range of works in other media
NewsMiddle East
Forgotten female artists of Modern Arab art to get their due in Sharjah show
Collector Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi is organising an exhibition with an equal number of male and female masters to redress gender bias
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Tarsila dethrones Monet as São Paulo museum's most popular exhibition
A retrospective devoted to the Brazilian Modernist was part of a yearlong focus on female artists
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From lantern slides to racist caricatures, the Walker showcases Theaster Gates the collector
Chicago artist strives for a poetic “resurrection” of African American stories in a solo show in Minneapolis
InterviewPolitics
Drawing with the ashes of Isis-ravaged buildings: Piers Secunda on the art of destruction
Artist’s works on iconoclasm in Mosul are currently on show at the Imperial War Museum in London
NewsControversies
Eleven artists withdraw or modify their works at Aichi Triennale in ongoing censorship row
Cuban activist Tania Bruguera closes down her exhibit while other artists reconfigure works to reflect the controversy
NewsYoko Ono
Just a 'well-known celebrity': Australian tourism chief doubted Yoko Ono's ability to draw crowds
Letter reveals that 2013 exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art was offered AU$500,000 of state money despite reservations
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More great Danes: new Copenhagen show expands Denmark's Golden Age
Works from the 19th-century helped construct a national identity in Denmark that is ripe for discussion now, says curator
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An early start to celebrating the US centennial of women’s suffrage
San Jose Museum of Art celebrates visionary female artists
NewsBiennials & festivals
Inaugural Rabat Biennale to be made up (mainly) of female artists
Curator Abdelkader Damani explains the reasons behind launching Moroccan show in already saturated biennial landscape
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A Frank Lloyd Wright synagogue transformed
An immersive installation will fuse music, tapestries, video and orchids
NewsIstanbul Biennial
Istanbul Biennial shifts to waterside warehouse after asbestos scare
New Antrepo 5 venue announced after curator says visitors could have been at risk
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
'Immersive experience' at London's National Gallery to reveal secrets of Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks
X-rays showing artist's original composition reveal that angel and Infant Christ were positioned higher up
NewsDiscrimination
Wheelchair user blasts Olafur Eliasson show at Tate Modern over rampless work
After consulting with the Danish-Icelandic artist and technicians, Tate says installation “cannot be made safely accessible for wheelchair users”
NewsHastings Contemporary
Victor Willing's life, work and tumultuous relationship with Paula Rego explored in first UK retrospective
New documentary by Willing’s son will also form part of Hastings Contemporary's reassessment of the forgotten artist
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In highly personal portraits, an artist speaks up for his native Baltimore
Painted before Donald Trump disparaged the city, Derrick Adams's new works celebrate family life there
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Ceramicist Magdalene Odundo shines in solo Sainsbury Centre show
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the relationship between humans and nature at the Cooper Hewitt to love and unity at the Ford Foundation
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Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch joint show on its way to London’s Royal Academy of Arts
Exhibition first opens at Norway’s new Munch Museum, where Emin’s giant bronze The Mother will be permanently installed outside
NewsCensorship
Artists wade into row over Japanese triennial dedicated to freedom of speech
More than 70 participants including Candice Breitz and Tania Bruguera have signed a statement demanding reopening of Aichi Triennale's exhibition
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Unfinished quarters of a Bavarian palace create a striking backdrop for contemporary art
Imaginatively curated, the fourth edition of the Königsklasse exhibition is as monumental as the Herrenchiemsee Palace in which it is installed
NewsBauhaus
Art Institute of Chicago show traces the Bauhaus’s legacy in 20th-century textile art
The weaving workshop was “an incubator of aesthetic and pedagogical talent”
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Winslow Homer beach paintings—cut in half after a bad review—reunited for Cape Ann Museum show
Exhibition of marine paintings will be joined later this month by a survey of the artist's Civil War illustrations at Harvard Art Museums
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Gender-bending 1980s muse paints the town Scarlett at Liverpool show opening
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Shirin Neshat curates exhibition of all-women Iranian artists in New York
The show includes the work of 16 contemporary artists exploring themes such as sexual identity, repression, religion and memory
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Ashmolean Museum show unearths doomed Pompeii's culinary life
The exhibition in Oxford, which contains loans that have never before left Italy, includes a (possible) Roman version of a chamber pot
ReviewThree to see
Three to see: Edinburgh Art Festival
Trisha Brown, Samson Young and James Richards are among the highlights of this year's cultural offering in the Scottish capital
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After the National Gallery, the Courtauld is the latest London institution to send masterpieces to Japan
Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère is among the 58 works going on a Japanese tour this autumn
BlogDiary
An art critic’s journey through Upstate New York
The Hudson Valley’s blend of cultural and natural appeal helped a writer celebrate his mid-30s
InterviewFrom the archive
In search of art out of Africa: an interview with Jean Pigozzi
“I feel that at the time of the Medici they had my kind of rapport with their artists”
CommentExhibitions
Museums cannot ignore artists’ values
Artists are increasingly concerned about the ethical principles of the museums and galleries in which they show their work
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Revisiting the 1989 revolution that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall
Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig looks at how East German artists responded to tumultuous times
Podcast
Top of the Pods: the world of Warhol, as told by Jeremy Deller and Donna De Salvo
With the Pop artist's blockbuster retrospective currently on show at SFMoMA, we delve into the life and legacy of the ever-popular painter with artist Jeremy Deller and curator Donna De Salvo. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
ReviewExhibitions
St Louis’s Counterpublic triennial tests the limits of local engagement
In its first iteration, the exhibition paired artists with local storefronts far from the city’s major cultural districts
NewsRestitution
Austria promises to return ancient artefacts to Russia that were taken as war trophies
An Austrian army officer took the 2,000-year-old objects from a war-damaged museum in the port of Temryuk at the end of the Second World War
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Saint Louis bags bumper Paul Gauguin exhibition from one of the world's great collections
The show, which borrows works from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, travels from San Francisco’s De Young Museum where it closed in June
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Are guns child's play in Mr. and Pharrell Williams's Paris collaboration?
The Japanese artist's Manga-inspired exhibition at Musée Guimet, curated by Williams, depicts kids with weapons as a vision of the future
NewsMoon
Lunar landing anniversary inspires tributes to the Moon across the globe
Exhibitions and events at museums and galleries worldwide proves we are still looney for the Moon 50 years after setting foot on it
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Kazakhstan's first international exhibition reveals a craving for culture in Nur-Sultan
In the wake of the country's cancelled Venice Biennale pavilion, the show aims to build a more global "artists' community" in the newly renamed capital city
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The lauded Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck finally gets major UK show
Although her greatest work was painted in St Ives, the artist is little known in the UK—but a survey at the Royal Academy of Arts hopes to change that
ReviewExhibitions
‘Less is a Bore’: ICA Boston takes Maximalism to the max
Exhibition celebrates patterns yet transcends decoration
ReviewArt & Technology
The natural world meets the virtual in Jakob Kudsk Steensen's augmented reality experience at Serpentine Galleries
Marking the galleries' first Augmented Architecture commission, explores the sights and sounds of the flora and fauna in London’s Hyde Park
NewsConservation & Preservation
Moscow Kremlin Museums say ‘bravo!’ to restorers
State regalia, Russian icons and decorative pistols go on show in exhibition celebrating the hidden craft of conservation
NewsVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A to mount major Iran exhibition in face of US sanctions
Museum’s director Tristram Hunt says securing loans and sponsorship is “more of a challenge” as tension grows between Trump and Tehran
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Martin Parr gives a wedding photographer his own big day
Bristol exhibition reveals Ian Weldon's documentary approach to "all the indiscretions, bad dancing and excessive behaviour" of a British wedding
ReviewExhibitions
A dizzying mash-up in a trio of New Museum shows
Scenes morph, body language pops, and colours gyrate in art by Lubaina Himid, Mika Rottenberg and Marta Minujín
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Olafur Eliasson: the art world is 'trying to find its feet' on climate change
Artist's Tate Modern retrospective features works drawn largely from European collections in an effort to reduce carbon footprint
NewsPolitics
Leipzig exhibition ousts artist with alt-right sympathies
Axel Krause’s support for anti-immigration party AfD was a step too far for the organisers, but others say his exclusion suppresses freedom
NewsBritish Museum
British Museum director endorses controversial sponsor BP as part of future vision
Oil company will support one exhibition at the museum next year, but not a show dedicated to the people of the Arctic
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Carmen Herrera’s dream project to bloom in New York's City Hall Park
The aluminium sculptures are based on 1960s archival drawings with three being realised for the first time
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a travelling survey show on Stonewall to bronze sculptures of everyday objects
Podcast
Ibrahim Mahama's ghosts of Ghana. Plus, China's epic Picasso show
We speak to the Ghanaian artist as he unveils a major new commission at the Whitworth as part of the Manchester International Festival. Plus, we find out about the Picasso blockbuster at UCCA in Beijing. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
CommentMuseums & Heritage
It's back to school for the art world—here's why you shouldn't just rush to the blockbusters
From William Blake at Tate Britain to Gauguin at the National Gallery, London's museums are opening their biggest exhibitions this month—but how much are you really able to enjoy them?
Ben Luke