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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Slavery, stray dogs and our shared stomach: Liverpool Biennial questions port city's imperial legacy
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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
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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
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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
InterviewCao Fei
'Chinese audiences know my name but not my work': Cao Fei on her first major solo show in her home country
Exhibition Staging the Era at Beijing's UCCA includes a working Cantonese canteen at one end and a replica of a 1950s Beijing cinema at the other
InterviewLondon Gallery Weekend 2021
Leilah Babirye's blowtorched trash sculptures of queer Ugandan royalty come to London
Forced to flee Uganda after being outed as a lesbian in the press, Babirye's show at Stephen Friedman Gallery addresses the legacy of British colonialism
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Street artist Futura unveils his biggest-ever work in Hong Kong shopping mall
Sneaker crowd turns out in force to see the New York-based artist's six-metre tall rocket surrounded by alien figures
InterviewLondon Gallery Weekend 2021
Carroll Dunham: You have to love painting to try and subvert it
During a new show at Galerie Max Hetzler, the American artist discusses the archetypal nudes in his canvases and his "uptight and conservative" attachment to painting
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Camp resistance: Tina Takemoto’s video Looking for Jiro explores the queer experience during Japanese internment
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Sky’s the limit: how Bronze Age people travelled and traded much further afield than commonly thought
The Nebra Sky disc, the oldest surviving representation of the cosmos, will be one of the star artefacts in an exhibition exploring Unětice culture and its far reaching links
BlogThe Insiders
Why artist Eileen Agar’s 'womb magic' speaks to our times
While a major retrospective of her work has just opened at the Whitechapel Gallery, her feminist influence can be seen in a range of exhibitions across London
NewsLand art
Nevada Museum of Art launches year-long focus on Land Art in the high desert
The museum has also announced the forthcoming programming for its triennial Art and Environment Conference
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Hannah Wilke’s work laid bare at the Pulitzer Art Foundation
Nearly 120 works by the pioneering feminist artist who used her body as a central focus of her work are on view in St Louis
NewsCommissions
From a huge Janus to a giant worm: seven site-specific sculptures spring up along the English coast
The Waterfronts commissions, by artists such as Michael Rakowitz and Katrina Palmer, have been created in collaboration with organisations like Turner Contemporary and the Folkestone Triennial
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‘For every Malcolm, you need a Martin’: England rugby player Maro Itoje presents exhibition on Black histories missing from UK curriculum
Sports star says he aims to ‘show a fuller picture’ of African history with London gallery show
NewsVenice Architecture Biennale
Kenyan caves and ancient Mesopotamian boats: Venice Architecture Biennale proposes solutions to impending global housing crisis
Hashim Sarkis's central exhibition touches on the fate of the planet at a time of climate change and Covid-19
NewsEgypt
First the Louvre's pyramid, now the actual Pyramids—JR to create show-stopping project in Egypt
Street artist hints he might make a photo collage at the 4,500-year-old Unesco World Heritage Site as part of exhibition organised by Art D’Egypte
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Stuck in a loop: curator Helen Molesworth organises group exhibition Feedback at The School in Kinderhook
Inspired by an audio piece by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, and her own memories of high school, the show looks at the repeating cycles of American history and culture
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From 5,000 years of Iranian art and culture to Black female resistance and the domestic sphere
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Tino Sehgal to unveil open air 'live encounters' piece in the gardens of Blenheim Palace
Thirty participants will enact "moments of connection" in the setting of the 18th-century Oxfordshire stately home
PreviewLondon Gallery Weekend 2021
Our critic's choice of London Gallery Weekend shows: Central
It's not just blue-chip galleries that have made our list of top exhibitions to see in central London where the city-wide event kicks off on 4 June
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Our critics' choice of London Gallery Weekend: East
Much like the area itself, the galleries of east London are presenting an eclectic mix of exhibitions, so our critics have joined forces and picked some of their favourites
InterviewLondon Gallery Weekend 2021
Meet Jade Montserrat, the Black artist who took on the British art establishment
As her first major solo show opens at Bosse & Baum during London Gallery Weekend, we speak to the artist about her art, her activism and what it was like growing up in rural Yorkshire
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The David and Goliath of art collections team up—London’s National Gallery loans nine works to Southampton
Maverick museum chief Kenneth Clark helped shape the Southampton City Art Gallery's collection
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Acclaimed Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Zanele Muholi shows end at Tate next week—but both are coming back
After runs punctuated by Covid-related delays, the exhibitions at Tate Modern and Tate Britain will return after their international tours
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Matthew Barney's American survivalist film to Emma Stern's "porn-adjacent" virtual avatars
InterviewArtist interview
Veronica Ryan: ‘I don’t know anyone who makes art for art’s sake’
After a period away from the spotlight, the British sculptor has a cluster of exhibitions due to open later this year
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Finding Nero: reputation of misunderstood Roman emperor is revisited for major London show
“Almost every single thing we think we know about him is wrong,” says the curator of a new exhibition at the British Museum
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Best shows for... discovering the next hot name
From gabber-inspired altarpieces to repurposed Brazilian matchboxes—here are four of the best emerging artists showing during London Gallery Weekend
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Best shows for... photography fans
Zoom in on these exhibitions by some of today's most revered artists, underrated historical figures and chroniclers of contemporary culture
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Best shows for... art history nerds
Tear yourself away from museums and libraries for one weekend to catch a rare revival of Jean Dubuffet’s “living painting” performance and Takis’s first European show since his death in 2019
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Best shows for... families with children
Commercial galleries are getting down with the kids and welcoming little ones during London Gallery Weekend
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‘Colonial history is international history’: Rijksmuseum reflects on slavery’s legacy in new show
The exhibition will offer new insights into the experiences of slaves as well as the role of Dutch trading companies
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Hug a museum: the best exhibitions to see around the UK as restrictions ease
From Rodin's plaster casts and Barbara Hepworth's bronzes, to flower arranging, disco dancing and the notorious Nero
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Off with her head! Infrared technology shows how a 15th-century French king used a paintbrush to replace one wife with another
Francis I of Brittany had his first wife painted over in a medieval prayer book before giving it to his new spouse, research at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum shows
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Sweeping survey to reveal the many sides of Barbara Hepworth
The British artist's celebrated sculptures, as well drawings, paintings and fabric designs, go on show at the Hepworth Wakefield
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Julie Curtiss's hairy take on Seurat to Kapwani Kiwanga's dense and diasporic fibre installations
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‘No duds’: James Barnor’s photographs capture the rapidly changing societies of Ghana and the UK
A new exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries in London spans the two homes of the British-Ghanian photographer during the second half of the 20th century
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Brut force and influence: Jean Dubuffet's enduring impact on contemporary art
First UK survey in 50 years examines the artist's relationship with Art Brut and Brutalism, finding a fitting home at London's Barbican
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How flower arranging became an art form thanks to Constance Spry’s unique view of the natural world
An exhibition at London’s Garden Museum pays a floral tribute to one of the 20th century’s most colourful and influential florists
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Camp extravaganza and Mayday pagan frolics at Queer as Folklore exhibition in London
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From a historical group show of works from 1960s Italy to David Harrison's trans pagan goats
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Rarely seen paintings by Nina Hamnett, fringe member of the Bloomsbury Group, to go on show at Charleston
The artist, who was most famous as a model and a memoirist, specialised in portraits of working people and her artistic circle
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
New discoveries about Van Gogh’s olive grove paintings revealed in upcoming Dallas and Amsterdam exhibitions
In Provence, Vincent loved the gnarled trees with a passion that rivalled his beloved sunflowers
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From Pompeii to post-colonial sculpture, San Francisco’s Legion of Honor pulls off a successful double-feature for its reopening
A solo show by Wangechi Mutu comments on the museum’s history, while an exceptional archaeological presentation gives antiquity a fresh feel
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Amateur hour turns to golden hour for forgotten Brazilian photo club with New York show
The Museum of Modern Art will present rarely-seen work by the mid-century collective Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante
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Top shows to see in New York during Frieze week
From Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke at Acquavella Galleries to Deana Lawson at the Guggenheim
NewsFoundations
MoMA trustee Lonti Ebers to open huge arts centre in Brooklyn this summer
The Amant Foundation in East Williamsburg will combine exhibition and studio spaces for resident artists
BlogThe Buck stopped here
To honour Joseph Beuys's landmark urban forest installation, 100 oak trees have been planted outside Tate Modern
NewsExhibitions
Met's next Costume Institute show is an exploration of the emotional hues of American fashion
The two-part exhibition invokes the upheaval of the past year and will be accompanied by an "intimate" gala this September and then a more expansive benefit next May
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Charles Gaines's Plexiglas grids at Hauser and Wirth to Rafał Zajko's frozen urine sculptures at PUBLIC
NewsVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A restores casts of warriors that adorned ancient Iranian palace for once-in-a-lifetime display
New exhibition on 5,000 years of Iranian civilisation will feature museum's rarely seen replicas of life-sized friezes from King Darius’s “very excellent” palace
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The Big Review | Made in LA 2020: A Version
The Los Angeles biennial has been installed but unvisited for six months due to Covid-19 restrictions. Does it still capture our present moment?
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Rocket man: Uli Sigg on how he began collecting art while working in North Korea
“There will be some protests,” predicts the Swiss collector ahead of a Kunstmuseum Bern show of works from both sides of the Korean border
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Longtime friends Tess Jaray and Paul de Monchaux collaborate at Frestonian Gallery
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Gretchen Andrew's search engine-hacking assemblages to Haroun Hayward's painterly meditations on rave culture
NewsGermany
German parliament’s “emergency brake” closes Kusama show, threatens Gallery Weekend
Measures to counter the third wave of the pandemic force museums in high-incidence areas to close
NewsMedieval art
'Hurrah, it’s leprosy!' How a conservator and a historian are decoding the grisly tales in Canterbury Cathedral’s stained-glass windows
New research for British Museum exhibition means panels depicting St Thomas Becket's healing miracles will be correctly reassembled after centuries in the wrong order
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Rembrandt’s work joins with art by Black and Indigenous artists at the National Gallery of Canada this spring
A major Old Master show will keep a contemporary perspective with new commissions and acquisitions
NewsAfrican art
Researchers discover trove of works by major African Modernists in rural Scotland
Paintings and drawings have been reattributed to some of the continent's most famous 20th-century names
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Olafur Eliasson floods museum and removes wall, opening it 24-hours-a-day to ‘insects, bats or birds’
Site-specific installation called Life opened this week at the Fondation Beyeler near Basel in Switzerland
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Sumptuous contemporary ceramics awaken Baroque palace in Berlin
The richly decorated Schloss Köpenick serves as backdrop to a show of works by three artists whose motifs encompass the natural world and Greek legends
NewsSponsorship
After staunch criticism, Science Museum defends oil company Shell’s sponsorship of its climate exhibition
Director Ian Blatchford says that the Science Museum Group "retains editorial control" over London show
InterviewAlice Channer
Alice Channer: 'I weaponise glamour… I see clothes as a kind of armour that can change and mutate'
As a host of new shows open in the UK, the artist reflects on her use of diverse materials and multifarious processes to reflect the shifting nature of bodies
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Lucy Sparrow recreates chemist shop made entirely from felt
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Egon Schiele’s images of newborns and recently discovered drawings by his friend Erwin Osen go on show in Vienna
The exhibition at the Leopold Museum includes Osen's sketches of electrotherapy patients, which were recently found in an attic
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Lawrence Abu Hamdan's investigation into reincarnation to Robin Rhode's imaginary underwater reef
InterviewArtist interview
Confronting Land Art and the Western frontier: Lucy Raven on how the two US cultural legacies influenced her new works at Dia Chelsea
New York-based artist's exhibitions opens at Dia Art Foundation's new and improved space in New York
NewsPublic art
New Dread Scott works critiquing power structures censored by Instagram as ‘hate speech’
The text-based pieces, installed on the façade of a New York theatre, probe American imperialism and white supremacy
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Miss an exhibition at Tate or the Hayward Gallery? Catch up on shows from the past on new digital platform for the 'phygital era'
New virtual initiative theVOV also aims to generate funds for the creative sector, potentially unlocking "new streams of income"
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Dawoud Bey on his new show spanning 1970s street photography to poignant nocturnal landscapes
The US photographer's travelling exhibition, which opens at the Whitney Museum in New York, charts his four decades documenting the African American experience
NewsSalvator Mundi
What the Louvre’s scientific examinations of the Salvator Mundi really revealed—according to the museum’s own book
A secret booklet appears to contradict claims made in a new documentary about the painting's attribution to Leonardo
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Eco-themed art shows to fill New York’s empty storefronts
The programme Rebound-NYC opens a major group exhibition in Union Square on Earth Day