ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From atmospheric photographs by Roy DeCarava to Lily van der Stokker's riffs on medicine and doctors
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Green light for Leonardo's Vitruvian Man to go to Louvre
An Italian appellate court has overturned the ban on the loan of the celebrated drawing
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Plastic bottle peril: Gavin Turk's environmental crusade marches on in new show inspired by Extinction Rebellion
Watercolours of water bottles as well as hundreds of discarded bottles from London's streets will be shown at Amsterdam gallery
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Damien Hirst’s Cherry Blossom paintings to go on show at the Fondation Cartier in Paris next year
Former YBA has been back in the studio painting for the past two years
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Paris exhibition to cast El Greco in new light
Survey at the Grand Palais aims to distance itself from the stereotypes usually associated with the artist
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‘Extraordinary’ Rubens show opens at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto
The blockbuster exhibition gathers early works by the Flemish master from museums in North America and Europe
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Caravaggio and Bernini show promises to be about more than just its titular #barockstars
Exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum will highlight the multiple trends and rich aesthetics of early Baroque art in Rome
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Urs Fischer makes wax portrait of Leonardo DiCaprio and his family for Gagosian show
One edition of the work has already been set alight and will gradually melt away over the course of the exhibition
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Major Kandinsky show opens in Saudi Arabia as Vladimir Putin arrives for rare state visit
Cultural programme of Russian art launches to coincide with president's trip to the Gulf state to sign over $2bn worth of deals
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Back to the future: Nam June Paik's chapel and TVs take over at Tate Modern
London exhibition brings together more than 200 works by the Korean-born video and installation pioneer
ReviewElias Sime
Wellin Museum presents second major US exhibition devoted to Ethiopian artist Elias Sime
The artist, who will be awarded the Smithsonian's African Art Award later this month, has also been commissioned by the Ethiopian prime minister to create a public garden in the royal palace
NewsPompeii
Fresco of two fighting gladiators discovered in Pompeii
Italy's culture minister Dario Franceschini says the find shows the site is an "inexhaustible mine for archaeological research"
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Arles to Tokyo: Van Gogh exhibitions in 2020 that Vincent aficionados won't want to miss
Detroit’s Van Gogh in America will be the highlight, with more major shows in Amsterdam, Padua, Santa Barbara and Columbus
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see during Barcelona Gallery Weekend
From an expansive exhibition on colonial legacy to a torn apart racing car channelling Tiepolo and Top Gear
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Pieter de Hooch steps out from Vermeer's shadow in new Delft show
First survey in the Netherlands puts the spotlight back onto the ‘other’ Golden Age painter
InterviewMark Bradford
Mark Bradford addresses modern-day xenophobia through Greek mythology and a Motown classic
US artist talks on The Art Newspaper Podcast about his London exhibition Cerberus at Hauser & Wirth
ReviewBiennials & festivals
Bubbling pools and animatronic snakes in Pierre Huyghe's Okayama Art Summit
Second edition of the Japanese triennial includes works by 18 artists that interact and overlap with each other
ReviewExhibitions
Rembrandt-Velázquez: a match made in curatorial heaven
Exhibition at the Rijksmuseum reveals both artists as masters of psychology and technique
NewsConservation
Expert finds lost dress of Queen Elizabeth I in English village church
Rare 16th-century fabric to go on show at Hampton Court Palace after three-year study
NewsMoMA expansion 2019
'Art history isn’t the neat package you think it is': first look at MoMA's $450m expansion
How the New York museum has remixed its unrivalled collection ahead of its 21 October re-opening
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James Tissot: the 19th century painter who swapped high society for the Holy Land
Long dismissed for its religiosity, Tissot’s biblical work will be given new context in San Francisco
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Italian court blocks loan of Leonardo's Vitruvian Man to Louvre
The ruling also suspends the wider agreement for the exchange of works of art between France and Italy
PreviewIndigenous art
National Gallery of Canada presents global pulse of contemporary Indigenous art
The museum plans to acquire many of the works in its survey devoted to Indigenous artists
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A New York salute to Rube Goldberg and his outlandish contraptions
Queens Museum celebrates a cartoonist who seems more relevant than ever
NewsExhibitions
MoMA will celebrate reopening with six site-specific works in its public spaces
Installations range from Haim Steinbach’s phrases and slogans to Yoko Ono’s blue sky
NewsControversies
Candice Breitz pulls work from South African museum that is exhibiting convicted murderer's art
Curator at newly opened Javett Art Centre defends decision to show drawing by artist who killed a sex worker in Cape Town in 2013
NewsCensorship
Feminist exhibition in China suddenly axed following alleged governmental pressure
Show in Shanghai cancelled after being deemed "too sensitive" to run during 70th anniversary of country's founding
InterviewMark Leckey
Mark Leckey on using Victorian techniques to evoke magical memories
For his new Tate Britain show, the artist used illusion to recreate his childhood experience beneath a motorway
NewsCensorship
'I wanted to break down white male ideas': sexually explicit Johannesburg show is pulled
Work by artist Anton Kannemeyer has also been removed from London's 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair after complaints
ReviewExhibitions
The Empire strikes back? Kara Walker's fountain makes a splash at Tate
US artist takes on British Empire’s legacy and the Transatlantic salve trade in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
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Hollywood director lights up Rembrandt show at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Cinematographer Peter Suschitzky brings a film-industry sensibility to the south London show
NewsPaul Cézanne
Crazy for Cézanne: we reveal plans for international blockbuster shows
Exhibitions in UK, US and Hungary are expected to be held from 2020 onwards
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
The artist whom Van Gogh most admired—and whose work fetched record prices
An exhibition on Millet opens in Amsterdam with the rare loan of The Angelus
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Neue Galerie’s Kirchner retrospective to John Singer Sargent’s rarely seen charcoal portraits at the Morgan Library and Museum
NewsJR
JR on the 'sociological experiment' of street art and his vast New York mural for the Brooklyn Museum
The French artist, who made his name with large-scale public installations, is opening his biggest US exhibition to date
InterviewTrevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen on questioning the intelligence of AI
US artist’s new show at the Barbican continues his exploration into how artificial intelligence is shaping how organisations control us
NewsExhibitions
Revealed: London's most exhibited artist this millennium
We look at which contemporary artists hold the record for the most shows in the capital over the past 20 years
ReviewExhibitions
High tension: metal guru Antony Gormley pushes the limits for Royal Academy show
London exhibition tells a complex story of body, space and boundaries
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Pet sounds on the Strand: immersive installation transports Londoners to the animal kingdom
The Vinyl Factory exhibition features the UK debut of the Great Animal Orchestra, a collaboration between US musician Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists
NewsExhibitions
As demonstrations return to Cairo, Egyptian protest artist goes on show in new London space
Exhibition of street artist Bahia Shehab's work opens at Aga Khan Centre Gallery in King's Cross
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Salvator Mundi set to be a no-show in Louvre show
Paris museum's attempts to secure $450m Leonardo look doomed to failure, and the loser will be art history
PreviewExhibitions
Seven must-see shows during Frieze week
From Kara Walker's monumental Tate fountain to an immersive installation of animal sounds
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
If Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man goes on show at the Louvre, we won’t see it again for a decade
Italian conservationists say they may attempt to block the loan of the famous drawing
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Met Breuer’s Vija Celmins retrospective to Kehinde Wiley’s first public sculpture
NewsDiscoveries
'True Rembrandt relic' discovered in cesspit below artist's house
Clay pot used by Old Master to paint is now on show in Amsterdam's Rembrandt House Museum
BlogIn the frame
New installation tosses up courtroom outfits of fake heiress Anna Delvey
NewsClimate Change
Art world impact just 'a drop in the ocean': Istanbul biennial curator takes on climate crisis
Nicolas Bourriaud examines the Anthropocene in 16th edition of the exhibition and says the “real issue is mass tourism"
InterviewMaurizio Cattelan
'Art's most high-profile provocateur' Maurizio Cattelan on his new Blenheim Palace show
Known for this dangling horse and gold toilet, the Italian artist's exhibition is in the unlikely setting of Winston Churchill's birthplace
NewsControversies
Nazi design exhibition at Dutch museum braces for protests
The show called Design of the Third Reich features the Volkswagen Beetle and Riefenstahl’s films
News
Dora Maurer: 'a lack of market was positive for my work'
White Cube announces representation of the Hungarian avant-garde artist with an exhibition of paintings from the past 30 years
NewsIstanbul Biennial
Monster Chetwynd’s monstrous children’s playground to open in Istanbul
Sculptural project, part of the 16th biennial, looks to the mythical creature Medusa
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From social realism to human waste: new exhibition looks at Italy’s post-war art scene
Show in Florence aims to bring "the complexity of the Italian art world” to an international audience
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Dreaming to drowning: a year in the life of Picasso
Tate Modern’s major new show focuses on 1932, a period of turbulent creativity that gave rise to some of the artist’s greatest work
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A golden age in the Americas when even artists were 'spoils of war'
Indigenous peoples valued luxury objects more as tools of statecraft and for communicating with the divine than for their precious metals
NewsThree to see
Three to See: New York
Catch Judy's Chicago Dinner Party (her)story before it closes, and Robert Ryman's drawings as the show opens
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Howardena Pindell, shaped by segregation in 1950s America, receives first major museum survey
Activist artist tells a “very different story about what art does in our world”
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Sittow survey in Washington, DC, helps celebrate 100 years of Estonian Republic
Court artist had an impressive roster of sitters including Mary Rose Tudor
NewsControversies
Palais de Tokyo removes work showing artist protesting against Dana Schutz's Open Casket painting
Parker Bright says protest image of him taken at Whitney Biennial was used by Neil Beloufa without permission
NewsPolitics
Antidote for apathy: Rodney McMillian's Austin show is a 'call to action'
Amid the Los Angeles artist's politically minded work, visitors can register to vote in Texas's forthcoming mid-term elections
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All the city's a stage: Munich celebrates Goethe's Faust with group show and festival
Exhibition commemorating German play includes works by Eugène Delacroix, Robert Mapplethorpe and Martin Scorsese
BlogThe Buck stopped here
The eyes have it at Jason Brooks’s Marlborough Fine Art show
NewsExhibitions
Louvre blockbuster show heads to Iran in major move of cultural diplomacy
Exhibition of 50 Greek, Roman and Persian artefacts is "first large-scale exhibition by a major Western museum in Iran"
NewsVincent Van Gogh
Tate Britain to explore Van Gogh's links to UK in major new show
The Art Newspaper's senior correspondent Martin Bailey is the co-curator of the exhibition
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From cabinets of curiosities at the Whitechapel to confronting trauma at the Barbican
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Three to see: New York
From Medieval Europe to contemporary China
PreviewExhibitions
Fondazione Prada recreates 20 Italian exhibits made under Fascist rule
Show of more than 500 works ranges from Giorgio de Chirico to Gruppo 7
NewsVideo, film & new media
Hirshhorn to reschedule Krzysztof Wodiczko’s monumental projection after Florida school shooting
The 30-year-old piece showing two hands holding a gun and a candle is "strangely familiar and at once unbearably relevant", the artist says
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Books, trees and live birds: Mark Dion's new exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery
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New Museum Triennial aims to deliver a message for our times
Every selected artist has a "degree of political and social engagement", curator says
BlogIn the frame
Imagine that: Yoko is not the only arty Ono
NewsBiennials & festivals
What to see at 21,39—Saudi Arabia’s contemporary art festival
Critics choose highlights from fifth edition of the Jeddah show, organised by Tate curator Vassilis Oikonomopoulos