PreviewBiennials & festivals
At the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the city becomes a community landscape
Projects and site-specific installations have been brought into six neigbourhoods, taking local needs into account
NewsRestitution
Looted African works that France has promised to return to Benin will be shown in Paris museum for one last time
The exhibition Benin: the Restitution of 26 Works from the Royal Treasures of Abomey at Musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac will be on view for five days in October
NewsFaith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold to get her first New York retrospective at the New Museum in 2022
The exhibition will span six decades and explore Ringgold as both an artist and political activist
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Pop goes pastoral: Sarah Lucas and friends take over rural theatre with multilayered group show of female imagery
NewsArt market
‘Opera is boring’: Marina Abramovic’s cinematic ode to soprano Maria Callas opens in London
Belgrade-born performance artist discusses recasting opera for a younger generation, how the diva label is “dubious” and why sex is better post-menopause
PreviewExhibitions
From art that's barely there to Alicja Kwade’s heart: what to see at Berlin Art Week
The German capital is awash with exhibitions, performances and events after a quieter edition last year
NewsNFTs
‘We have no doubt NFTs are art’: after selling tokenised Leonardo, Hermitage plans exhibition of born-digital works
Russian museum will look beyond the market hype to address deeper questions about "the specific possibilities of this medium", says contemporary art curator Dimitri Ozerkov
PreviewExhibitions
Rediscovering the East London Group: the part-time, working-class artists who depicted the capital between the wars
A new show in Southend-on-Sea aims to shine a light on the realist painters who fell into obscurity as tastes changed after the Second World War
ReviewExhibitions
Emerging art exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Rose Nestler's bizarre barre class to fireworks and goldfish cast in resin at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix
NewsJohannes Vermeer
First Cupid, now a wine glass? More revelations emerge from restored Vermeer painting in Dresden
Major restoration on Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window shows a large studded goblet later covered by a green curtain
NewsArt market
Jeff Koons reveals he is making NFTs, details plans for his Pace Gallery shows and remembers his hotel rendezvous with Salvador Dalí
The Balloon Dog sculptor spoke to The Art Newspaper as he announced a new art collaboration with BMW
PreviewExhibitions
Recently restored Cupid joins nine Vermeer masterpieces for blockbuster show
Dresden exhibition will include Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window along with key international loans and works by other Dutch Golden Age artists
ReviewExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Adham Faramawy's contemplative film on the migration of plants to Abbas Akhavan's ancient Syrian colonnades
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Terrible Beauty: Elephant—Human—Ivory at Humboldt Forum
The first exhibition at the controversial new museum complex in Berlin unflinchingly confronts a controversial subject
PreviewExhibitions
‘Laboratory of ideas’: Paris exhibition explores Sandro Botticelli's busy studio
A new show looks at the Renaissance artist’s role as a designer and head of a busy workshop as well as the inventor of an instantly recognisable style
NewsExhibitions
V&A's groundbreaking British design exhibition 75 years on—what can a post-pandemic UK learn from this historic show?
A prioritisation of design and a harnessing of public spirit are vital in the face of challenges posed by Brexit and Covid-19
InterviewVideo games
From Atari to the No Fly List, artist Yucef Merhi uncovers the pervasive power of technology
The Venezuela-born artist’s pioneering work exploring information systems is on view in two shows in Miami
PreviewExhibitions
‘Athletic prowess and great ambition’: major Joan Mitchell survey begins its three-stop tour
Exhibition on the Abstract Expressionist includes little-known paintings and explores the influence of poetry on her work
PreviewExhibitions
The Obama portraits arrive at the Brooklyn Museum
The portraits of former President Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley and former First Lady Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald continue their national tour in New York
NewsExhibitions
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Pre-Raphaelite paintings go on show in his refurbished historic London theatre
Composer has funded a two-year, £60m renovation of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane to turn it into a public gallery and heritage attraction
FeatureDigital art
Van Gogh meets Dubai Mall: a look inside the huge immersive digital art space that has opened in the UAE
Infinity des Lumières is the largest centre of its kind in the region
NewsExhibitions
Dusseldorf exhibition on Jewish dealer Max Stern finally opens next month—but former backers want nothing to do with it
A previous version of the show was due to open in 2018, but was cancelled at short notice. Now it is being shunned.
ReviewArt & Technology
Immersive, interactive and a great way to display NFTs: Falko Alexander Gallery’s expansive VR exhibition
With its first virtual venture, an emerging gallery in Cologne removes the barrier between real life and virtual reality
NewsBiennials & festivals
Could new Banksy works help seaside spot become the next UK City of Culture?
Several works recently sprayed in the area by street artist "may be an endorsement", Great Yarmouth Borough Council says
PreviewJudy Chicago
Radical from the start: Judy Chicago’s retrospective at the De Young Museum goes beyond The Dinner Party
The exhibition demonstrates how the artist has “always been progressive in her thinking” about social issues, from feminism to environmentalism
NewsControversies
Whitworth Gallery in Manchester U-turns on decision to remove pro-Palestine statement after Forensic Architecture threaten to pull work
Exhibition addressing the use of tear gas in Palestine adjusted to “give voice to different perspectives” following intervention by Israeli legal groups
InterviewBarbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger: ‘Thank God I’m an artist and not a movie or Tiktok star’
As a survey show opens in Chicago, the US artist discusses the political urgency of her work, her response to rip-offs, and her desire to let the work speak for her
PreviewExhibitions
The complex journeys of Nazi-looted art are revealed in new exhibition
Stories of how works by Matisse, Cézanne, Chagall and others moved around during Second World War are told at New York's Jewish Museum
PreviewExhibitions
The Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Qaumajuq centre opens inaugural Indigenous triennial exhibition
The show features works by artists from Canada, New Zealand and Australia and considers themes and politics around water
ReviewExhibitions
Lynn Hershman Leeson, digital art pioneer, traces the tangled web of virtual life
A sprawling exhibition at the New Museum, featuring early online works and recent projects exploring DNA, proves how farsighted her work has been
NewsIsrael
Manchester gallery accused of provoking racial discord over exhibition on environmental effects of Israel-Palestine conflict
Cloud Studies by Forensic Architecture on show at the Whitworth Gallery has been criticised by the UK Lawyers for Israel
NewsAppointments & departures
A year after a racially tinged controversy, Moca Cleveland revises structure of its board of directors
Three co-presidents rather than one will oversee the institution, which has also recruited a more diverse array of board members
PreviewExhibitions
The 'Michelangelo of wood carving': exhibition celebrates life and work of Grinling Gibbons, 300 years after his death
Tercentenary show opens at Bonhams in London before travelling to Compton Verney in Warwickshire
NewsArt market
Young British artist Tunji Adeniyi-Jones paired with Duncan Grant for the Bloomsbury set artist’s first solo show since he died in 1978
Exhibition at Charleston farmhouse in East Sussex comes as White Cube gallery announces representation of the 28-year-old Brooklyn-based painter
ReviewBiennials & festivals
Black Lives Matter resonates throughout Edinburgh Art Festival
From abolitionist films to historical tapestries, the effects of summer 2020's protests can be felt in the Scottish capital
NewsAnish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor is converting a vast, crumbling Venetian palace into his permanent exhibition space and workshop
The 18th-century Palazzo Manfrin will house a collection of the British-Indian sculptor's work
NewsExhibitions
Getting to know Sonia Boyce: ahead of her Venice Biennale debut, a new show deep dives into her practice
UK artist has organised a group exhibition at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art displaying 12 artists who interact with the ideas behind her own works
NewsExhibitions
Surrealism, Sickert, Cézanne and Cornelia Parker’s exploding shed: what to see at Tate in 2022
British artist Hew Locke has been selected for Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries commission, while Barbara Hepworth gets a survey at Tate St Ives
NewsExhibitions
Monet’s water lilies masterpiece to be shown in UK for the first time
Painting from Paris is included in an exhibition at London's Dulwich Picture Gallery dedicated to Helen Frankenthaler to show similarities in painting style between the two artists
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Group show of cutting edge contemporary painting opens at Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate
PreviewExhibitions
As regimes are challenged in Cuba and Haiti, a timely exhibition on power and resistance opens in Miami Beach
A group show at Oolite Arts explores the ways government power plays out and can be counteracted by those under its influence
NewsExhibitions
Elba, Napoleon's Italian exile island, hosts bicentenary exhibition on the controversial French emperor
Uffizi Galleries in Florence among major lenders to show marking 200 years since his death
NewsHumboldt Forum
Humboldt Forum opens in Berlin—finally for real
After almost two years of delays, the ambitious museum complex launches its first in-person exhibitions
NewsExhibitions
Common cause: marking 40 years of the MacArthur Foundation's ‘genius’ awards in Chicago
Dawoud Bey, Kerry James Marshall and Julie Mehretu are among 29 MacArthur fellows exhibiting in show in 19 venues throughout Chicago
NewsExhibitions
Maurizio Cattelan unveils memorial to 9/11 in new Milan show—20 years after witnessing tragedy
Idea for the project was considered "too emotionally fraught" for New York by Guggenheim chief curator
PreviewExhibitions
Albrecht Dürer's wonderful Renaissance road trip explored in major travelling exhibition
Five centuries after the German artist took a year-long journey around the Low Countries, his remarkable journal and drawings go on show in Aachen before going to London
NewsBaltimore Museum of Art
Security guards become guest curators at the Baltimore Museum of Art
The forthcoming show, developed with the help of art historian Lowery Stokes Sims, aims to highlight a “multiplicity of curatorial voices in major institutions”
PreviewExhibitions
Like Goya, a ‘renegade’: exploring Bob Thompson’s high-octane challenges to Western art
An exhibition at the Colby College Museum of Art probes how the African-American painter defied expectations
PreviewExhibitions
Face doesn't fit? Getty Center show to shed new light on triptych by 14th-century artist Paolo Veneziano
First US exhibition devoted to the Trecento artist questions previous assumptions and reunites key panels
PreviewExhibitions
‘National histories are not national facts’: British Art Show 9 kicks off in Aberdeen with ambitious exhibition tackling latest issues
The show of 47 artists will evolve as it tours to venues in Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth
FeatureFilm
What happens if you cross breast milk with celluloid? Enter the weird world of handmade film
A new season of experimental cinema has opened at the Barbican showing works made by drawing, painting, scratching and otherwise messing about with the surface of film
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Slavery at the Rijksmuseum
Four years in the making, the exhibition has gained new urgency after the murder or George Floyd. How unflinchingly does it address its subject and its collection?
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Van Gogh’s self-portraits: what do they really reveal?
An exhibition at London’s Courtauld Gallery will be the most comprehensive ever held of Vincent's paintings of himself
NewsArt market
Sotheby's will sell Christo's preparatory works for Arc de Triomphe wrap
Proceeds from exhibition will go towards funding the monumental Paris project
NewsHudson Valley
Want to escape New York for the weekend? Here’s what to see at the Second Saturday Hudson Gallery Crawl
Galleries are hosting artist receptions, shops and restaurants are open late and buskers will line the streets of the upstate city
PreviewExhibitions
Picture perfect: Ellsworth Kelly’s rarely seen postcard collages on view in Saratoga
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery reopens to the public this weekend with a special exhibition of intimate works by the abstract artist
NewsMuseums
When the US was accused of ‘plundering’ Berlin’s museums: new show reveals murky history
An exhibition opening at the Cincinnati Art Museum reveals how 14 major museums found themselves caught up in a “morally dubious” tour of Germany's art treasures after the Second World War
NewsExhibitions
Dubai's long-awaited Expo 2020 announces artist line-up
Hamra Abbas, Olafur Eliasson, Yinka Shonibare and Haegue Yang are among the artists that will make works for the delayed giant world fair this autumn
ReviewBiennials & festivals
From the fall of Big Ben to the toxic truth about clouds: three to see at Manchester International Festival
As the biennial event opens in northern English city, we pick the best art and shows on view
ReviewExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Christina Quarles's fragmented figures to Igshaan Adams's sparkling dust clouds
NewsPhotography
Photographers' Gallery in London stages first selling show dedicated to African photography
Exhibition of young photographers from the continent was organised with The Photographic Collective, a not-for-profit that promotes lesser-known artists
NewsExhibitions
Momentum biennial in Norway fires curator weeks before opening, prompting artists to withdraw work in solidarity
Organisers of the exhibition in Moss claim curator Théo-Mario Coppola "irreparably damaged" their relationship with the team
PreviewExhibitions
The best art day trips you can take from Berlin, London and New York
From crumbling castles to beach huts and giant chalk drawings on the English coast, there's no need for PCR tests if you live near these local gems
CommentExhibitions
Why some people still care passionately whether St Jerome was Italian or Croatian (he was neither, actually)
An exhibition in Split shows that being 1,600 years old does not take you out of politics
PreviewExhibitions
Paula Rego mixes politics and portraits in major show
Portuguese-British artist’s Tate Britain retrospective—her largest ever in the UK—spans her colourful 60-year career
NewsExhibitions
Major Vincent van Gogh self-portrait exhibition to open in London next year
Among the masterpieces going on show at the Courtauld Gallery will be two works painted a week apart and reunited for the first time
PreviewExhibitions
Damien Hirst's Cherry Blossom paintings to be exhibited in artist's first major Paris show
Works from the series, painted by the artist rather than assistants, go on display at the Fondation Cartier this month
PreviewExhibitions
Triumphant in their time, yet largely erased later: a Met exhibition explores ‘The New Woman Behind the Camera’
Chronicling the work of female photographers from the 1920s to the 1950s, a show organised with the National Gallery of Art breaks significant ground
NewsLondon
What to see during Mayfair Art Week in London
From portraits of Napoleon and his wife reunited after nearly 200 years to Rafael Nadal's buttocks
InterviewContemporary art
Sutapa Biswas: 'Our reckoning with empire has certainly begun, but we've only scratched the surface'
Ahead of two major UK shows, the British Indian artist discusses her new work and her role in the Black British Arts movement
NewsOpenings
Italian Futurist's Rome apartment—a 'total fusion of art and life'—revealed by MaXXI museum
The small flat inhabited and decorated by 20th-century artist Giacomo Balla is open to the public for the first time as part of a new exhibition
ReviewExhibitions
Retina-bombarding films and complicated stenches: Glasgow International offers us new ways to pay attention
Scotland's largest festival of visual culture takes over sites across the city
NewsMuseums
OCAT Shanghai closes after public outcry over Uglier and Uglier video that ranks women's attractiveness
The work by Song Ta consists of eight hours of secretly shot footage of 5,000 college women
NewsPublic art
To see this sculpture, text the owner of a pup named Oh Papa and schedule a viewing
Adam Milner has installed his series of uncommonly intimate public sculptures in everyday locations like a bodega or a tailor’s shop, where they act as catalysts for human connection
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Mohamed Bourouissa's drug dealer slang to Alvaro Barrington's homage to the late rapper DMX
NewsExhibitions
After the South London Gallery’s ‘most challenging year ever’, Christina Quarles paintings and drawings go on show
Solo exhibition is the Los Angeles-based artist’s first in a London institution
PreviewExhibitions
Weathervanes get their second wind in an exhibition at New York's American Folk Art Museum
The ornate devices used for measuring wind direction date back to ancient times, but they have come to be associated with Americana—and Modernist art
PreviewExhibitions
What’s it been like preparing for fine art degree shows during a global pandemic?
Students from Goldsmiths, Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art reveal the highs and lows of the past year
NewsControversies
'In solidarity with the Palestinian people', photographers withdraw their works from Prix Pictet show in Israel
Prize-nominated artists Shahidul Alam and Gideon Mendel will not show their works at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv
PreviewExhibitions
Gustave Moreau’s 34 surviving Fables watercolours get a very rare outing
The 19th-century French symbolist's works will go on show at Waddesdon Manor before travelling to Paris
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From John Akomfrah's enthralling three-part film to Peter Hujar's nightlife photographs
NewsFemale artists
Sexism by numbers: Guerrilla Girls ask UK public to send in statistics of females nudes vs female artists at local museums
Feminist protest groups' Male Graze project is part of the contemporary art festival Art Night
NewsExhibitions
Harrowing film on Japanese war-time atrocities in China is among shortlisted works on show in UK's biggest art prize
Powerful work by Japanese artist Meiro Koizumi is on show alongside five other artists in Cardiff's Artes Mundi award
NewsExhibitions
Visitors invited to row a boat through an apocalyptic underground maze in Tomás Saraceno's latest exhibition
Artist's installation in a water-filled, 19th-century reservoir in Copenhagen has been delayed for a year because of Covid
InterviewExhibitions
Frank Bowling: ‘My art isn’t about politics, it’s about paint’
As several shows of his work open, the artist talks about the distinctive transatlantic influences on his art, the role of politics, and art for art’s sake
NewsBiennials & festivals
Venice Biennale 2022 title inspired by Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington
The exhibition’s president and curator also announced the main exhibition’s three themes
PreviewOpenings
Former tobacco factory in Athens reopens its doors as vast contemporary art space this week
Following a €1.2m renovation, the historic building will host an expansive group show on the pandemic
PreviewExhibitions
O say can you see, what 100 versions of the Star-Spangled Banner reveal about America
Ahead of her Frist Art Museum show, Bethany Collins tells us about researching the US national anthem and how 72-hour Bible readings inspired her next performance
ReviewBiennials & festivals
Slavery, stray dogs and our shared stomach: Liverpool Biennial questions port city's imperial legacy
NewsExhibitions
Institutional racism and police brutality: ICA London to reopen with timely show after 15-month hiatus
Book by investigative artists Forensic Architecture and ICA presents new evidence in 2011 police killing of Mark Duggan
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Michael Armitage at the Royal Academy of Arts
Probing the legacies of colonialism, Armitage's seductive paintings on East African bark cloth root themselves in a non-European Modernist tradition
ReviewExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Michael Armitage's electric paintings on bark cloth to a group show on syncopation
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Van Gogh 'immersive experiences': a guide to the global battle now reaching London
Presenting a vivid insight into Vincent’s art, Van Gogh Alive opens today in Kensington Gardens
CommentMuseums & Heritage
We tackled Dutch slaving history—the Rijksmuseum's exhibition could serve as a model of its kind
The Netherlands needs to collectively examine how its past has shaped today's society, says the director of the Amsterdam museum
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