NewsExhibitions
Othoniel makes a splash in his hometown of Saint-Etienne
For its 30th anniversary, the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain invited the artist to show his monumental sculpture The Big Wave as part of a major retrospective
NewsThree to see
Three to see: New York
From William Eggleston's America to Lynda Benglis's homecoming
ReviewExhibitions
The Met unpacks its Souls Grown Deep gift
An excellent show add new strands to our understanding of what makes American art uniquely American
Newsgun control
Bay Area commissions turn dismantled guns into art
The Robby Poblete Foundation, started by the mother of an aspiring artist and gun violence victim, aims to take guns off the street and draw attention to daily shootings in minority neighbourhoods
PreviewExhibitions
The futuristic architecture that emerged from Mobutu’s Kinshasa comes to MoMA
First US survey of Bodys Isek Kingelez shows how his sculptures addressed urban, social and economic concerns in Congo
InterviewGiuseppe Penone
Giuseppe Penone on Arte Povera, Cézanne’s best work and never tiring of trees
The Italian artist speaks to The Art Newspaper ahead of his major show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
NewsConservation
British Museum positions itself as a European expert on Korean art with major conservation project
It is the first Western institution to launch a long-term project to study and conserve pictorial art from the country
NewsVenice Biennale 2019
From Eva Rothschild to Laure Prouvost: women to make their mark at Venice Biennale 2019
Female artists are set to represent Austria, France, Ireland and the UK at the 58th edition of the exhibition
PreviewExhibitions
Jackson Pollock and Thornton Dial given equal billing in Met exhibition
Highlights from Souls Grown Deep Foundation acquisition go on show among New York museum's collection
NewsBuilding projects
Ingleby Gallery’s new Edinburgh home was once the HQ of a religious sect
A show of new works by the Scottish artist Callum Innes opens the refurbished venue
NewsExhibitions
From Cleopatra to Banksy: satirist Ian Hislop to co-organise British Museum show on subversion
Private Eye editor will select 100 objects highlighting dissent down the ages
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From rejuvenated “killed negatives” to a new lease of life for the UK’s only Michelangelo marble
ReviewExhibitions
Blood, sweat, tears, piss and vinegar: Adrian Piper at MoMA
The retrospective shows how the artist has reckoned with structures of racial, gender and sexual oppression through her 50-year career
PreviewExhibitions
What René Magritte did when Surrealism was trumped by ‘Nazi idiots’
Exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art explores Belgium artist's lesser-known late period
CommentExhibitions
Is nothing sacred? The Metropolitan Museum should apologise to the Vatican for Heavenly Bodies show
Curator Andrew Bolton’s Costume Institute blockbuster is pointlessly offensive to believers
BlogThe Buck stopped here
‘A primal, erotically-charged mud fest’: Florence Peake’s rite at De La Warr Pavilion
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From a glimpse of the future at the V&A to a Charles II blast from the past at the Queen's Gallery
NewsExhibitions
Douglas Coupland’s work in plastic is fantastic
The writer and artist unveils an ecological work inspired by the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and a 3D-printed national portrait of Canada
PreviewExhibitions
Spark your wanderlust with a wander through Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie
New exhibition looks at how love of travel was a prominent feature of 19th-century German Romanticism
InterviewMary Corse
Quantum leap for Mary Corse as clutch of shows brings overdue recognition
Light and Space artist has exhibitions in London and Beacon, followed by New York retrospective
NewsExhibitions
Elmgreen & Dragset get first major UK survey at Whitechapel Gallery
Exhibition during Frieze week spans 20 years of the artists' career and will include a major new commission
NewsRestitution
Canadians withdraw from Düsseldorf show about Jewish dealer Max Stern
Max Stern Foundation seeks reimbursement of costs from the German city
NewsExhibitions
Los Angeles County Museum of Art hopes to ‘change American perceptions of Iran’ with new show
Artists based in Iran were absent at the opening of exhibition of historical and contemporary Iranian art this week due to Trump's travel ban
NewsFrieze New York
New Museum to send greatest hits to London during Frieze Week in October
The US institution is planning film and video show with The Store X The Vinyl Factory
PreviewExhibitions
Paris celebrates 50th anniversary of May ‘68 protests with shows and new commissions
Institutions remember the turbulent period and consider its legacy
NewsCommercial galleries
New territory for Glenn Ligon with first solo show in Italy
US artist tries new techniques and tackles immigration in Naples exhibition
NewsExhibitions
Controversial animal works pulled from Guggenheim New York will go on show in Bilbao
Contemporary Chinese installations drew 'threats of violence' from animal rights activists last year
NewsExhibitions
'It's not about rain, it's about robots': first permanent Rain Room opens in the UAE
Random International's popular installation has taken five years to develop for display in Sharjah
PreviewExhibitions
Escher’s love affair with landscape explored in home town show
Exhibition of graphic artist and master of illusion takes place at Fries Museum in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden
NewsArt market
Private View: our pick of May gallery shows
New shows at commercial galleries, from emerging names to rediscovered talent
PreviewFrieze New York
The best shows in town during Frieze New York
From Adrian Piper at MoMA to Radican Women in Brooklyn
PreviewExhibitions
Cross-border collaboration brings Mexican miracles to the Met
Works in new show range from altarpieces to holy effigies believed to perform miracles
PreviewExhibitions
The power couples who shaped Modern art
New show explores 40 romantic and artistic partnerships of the 20th century
PreviewExhibitions
Bacon and Giacometti go head to head in show at Fondation Beyeler
Swiss museum hosts first major comparative exhibition of the two artists
NewsBiennials & festivals
Biennale bonanza: artist line-ups revealed for Riga, Berlin and São Paulo shows
Curtain also lifts on Manifesta 12 and the 2019 Sharjah Biennial
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
Rodin takes on the Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum while James Cook sets sail for the British Library
NewsThree to see
Three to see: New York
Different approaches to place, cities and landscape, from the Brooklyn Museum to the Met
PreviewExhibitions
Largest show of contemporary African art in Brazil opens latest leg of tour
Exhibition at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil mixes "traditional and modern, colonial and post-colonial, local and global"
PreviewExhibitions
How Winslow Homer's long-lost camera changed the way scholars see his paintings
After four years of research into the recently discovered camera, Maine's Bowdoin College Museum of Art reassesses the American artist’s creative practice
NewsExhibitions
From royal blue to Yves Klein blue: Blenheim Palace to host show of Modern master
Body paintings and sponge sculptures in artist’s signature ultramarine blue will fill rooms of stately home this summer
PreviewExhibitions
Turkmenistan sends treasures to Berlin in diplomatic move
Bronze Age artefacts from Margiana go on show at the Neues Museum
NewsExhibitions
Jack Whitten: once mistaken for Gerhard Richter, now subject of major US survey shows
Curators share their stories about the late artist, whose sculptures are show at the Baltimore Museum of Art
NewsExhibitions
Syria’s war-ravaged heritage to be the focus of new Qatar show
Museum of Islamic Art exhibition looks at historic sites destroyed by years of civil war
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Review: Glasgow International permeates city with its distinctively dystopian tentacles
NewsCommissions
Emerging Arab artists to get international shows through new commissioning initiative
Six partner institutions including the Hammer Museum are behind collaborative art production model
PreviewExhibitions
Rodin’s debt to Parthenon sculptures explored in British Museum exhibition
Eighty marble, bronze and plaster works by French artist are put in dialogue with ancient Greek art
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From the high emotions of Taryn Simon’s professional mourners to photography galore at Somerset House and the Hayward Gallery
PreviewExhibitions
The many faces of Australia’s colonial legacy unveiled across two shows
National Gallery of Victoria’s mega-shows range from art by convicts to contemporary indigenous work
BlogIn the frame
Freud Museum goes DIY with masturbation show
Spunky works by artists including Chantal Faust, Antony Gormley and Annie Sprinkle
NewsExhibitions
Huma Bhabha’s alien visitors land on the Met’s roof
The Pakistani-born, New York-based artist point toward a dream of peaceful communication
NewsExhibitions
Ukrainian artists tackle country’s political turmoil head on in Budapest show
Exhibition at Ludwig Museum aims to uncover work that remains "a blind-spot in the European cultural arena"
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
Monet takes on the city at the National Gallery and it is the final week of the once-in-a-lifetime Charles I show at the Royal Academy
NewsThree to see
Three to see: New York
From a shameful period in US history to a bright new monument for the 21st century
PreviewExhibitions
How Delacroix went from lycée dropout to establishment favourite
Exhibition at the Musée du Louvre is first major survey of the painter’s work in more than 50 years
BlogLinda on the loose
Jumex Museum show looks at the fall of the Utopian ideal in Latin America
Mexico City museum is becoming a private institution that actually serves the public interest
PreviewExhibitions
The art of cross-dressing: under-the-radar artists surface in Venice exhibition
Works by Marcel Bascoulard and Urs Lüthi explore ideas around gender and identity
PreviewExhibitions
Mel Chin ‘floods’ Times Square for New York show
Interventions are being co-ordinated across the city as part of the Queens Museum’s exhibition
PreviewExhibitions
Romanticism show surveys landscapes of northern Europe
First major exhibition of its kind includes Turner and Friedrich as well as less familiar “Romantics”
NewsVenice Biennale
Cathy Wilkes—known for her unsettling sculptural installations—to represent UK at 2019 Venice Biennale
The artist was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2008 and has just closed her first major retrospective at MoMA PS1
NewsVictoria & Albert Museum
Ethiopia calls on British Museum to return Maqdala treasures on loan like the V&A
Ambassador made request at display opening in South Kensington
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
The Brazilian Modernists who helped with the war effort, and the last chance to see Winnie-the-Pooh
NewsThree to see
Three to see: New York
Shows to honour the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr on the 50th anniversary of his assassination
PreviewExhibitions
Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas brings acrobatics and improvised sculptures to New York
The artist is creating a new work and performance at The Kitchen and launching Mexican gallery Kurimanzutto’s US outpost this month
PreviewExhibitions
Monet's urban obsession explored in major new London show
National Gallery exhibition, which includes Rouen cathedral paintings, reveals another side of French Impressionist
NewsExhibitions
What Samson Young did next—the artist will unveil a new sound piece for the Guggenheim New York
The work will feature “impossible” instruments created after intense research carried out at Edinburgh University
NewsArt market
Patrizia Sandretto's passion for photography
Q+A with the Italian collector on the occasion of a new exhibition at her foundation in Turin
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From Michael Rakowitz’s winged bull soaring above Trafalgar Square to the last chance to have a swing at Tate Modern
InterviewSonia Boyce
‘At the heart of all this is the question of power’: Sonia Boyce on the notorious Hylas and the Nymphs takedown
The artist reveals the story behind the headlines and the film she made about the painting's removal
PreviewExhibitions
Adrian Piper, who took conceptualism to Macy’s, gets major New York retrospective
Museum of Modern Art dedicates entire sixth floor to 280-work show—a first for a living artist
PreviewExhibitions
History repeating itself? Three major US shows look at 1930s art and political climate
Exhibitions of Grant Wood, Precisionism and interwar Europe draw parallels with today
NewsArt Basel Hong Kong 2018
Secretive Myanmar to host touring Hong Kong contemporary show
The exhibition organised by Para Site will 'challenge preconceived notions about the region'
NewsArt Basel Hong Kong 2018
Arresting development: a peek at Hong Kong's Central Police Station
Long-awaited heritage and arts centre, Tai Kwun, is expected to open in May
NewsExhibitions
J.R.R. Tolkien show reveals Middle-earth mastermind's unseen art
Exhibition at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries will also include Hobbit and Lord of the Rings manuscripts
FeatureArt's Most Popular
Ranked: the top ten most popular shows in their categories from around the world
Including Old Masters, Asian, Post-Impressionist and Modern
FeatureArt's Most Popular
What is the most cultured city in the US?
Think Grand Rapids, Bentonville or Houston—but not New York
AnalysisArt's Most Popular
Infographic: how exhibition titles compare, then and now
Can you spot the difference?
NewsExhibitions
Los Angeles’s David Kordansky Gallery gives Betty Woodman her first retrospective in years
The posthumous survey traces the artist’s trajectory, from classic pottery to wildly dramatic forms
PreviewExhibitions
Face to face with a Mesoamerican metropolis—in Los Angeles
Largest city of the ancient Americas brought back to life in show of Mexican treasures at Lacma
PreviewExhibitions
Laid bare: seven centuries of the human body in colour
Sleeping Beauty waxwork joins Donatello and Degas sculptures at Met Breuer
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From Canadian artist David Milne's Modernist landscapes to the chains used by suffragettes to secure themselves to the House of Commons
NewsGallery Weekend Berlin
From Gerhard Richter to Dürer: Christie’s to showcase German art and collecting during Berlin Gallery Weekend
Exhibition targeted at Old Master collectors will not compete with the contemporary art event, auction house says
NewsArt Dubai 2018
European tour for Hassan Sharif blockbuster
The show, which opened at the Sharjah Art Foundation, will travel to Italy and Germany
NewsArt Dubai 2018
Resistance in multiple forms at Sharjah’s March Meeting
Minds from the Middle Eastern art world and beyond discussed topics such as urban planning and art and ecology
CommentExhibitions
‘How can we judge a work of art that was inspired by a person’s faith?’
The Reverend James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author, on what Catholics can take away from the Met’s Heavenly Bodies exhibition
As told to Helen Stoilas