Exhibitions

The Big Review: 14th-century Siena is magnificent at the Met ★★★★★

Reuniting the surviving sections of the city’s altarpiece marvel is just the start of this important, beautifully staged show at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

Yu Hong’s moment in the Western market has finally arrived

Painter’s first London gallery show debuts three decades after she helped define China’s “New Generation”

Prizesnews

American Civil War-era bread and heroic migration: Deutsche Börse Prize nominees announced

Four international artists have made the shortlist for the award, worth £30,000

An exhibition at the pyramids of Giza invites artists and visitors to become modern-day archaeologists

In its fourth iteration, Forever is Now continues its tradition of installing contemporary works next to ancient sites

An exhibition on reproductive health raises urgent questions—and the spectre of self-censorship

The touring exhibition “Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency” features works that unflinchingly address infringements on bodily autonomy; its run has been cut short after a university gallery withdrew from its leg of the tour

Jenny Saville and Edvard Munch headline 2025 programme at London's National Portrait Gallery

The gallery will also bring Cecil Beaton’s fashion photography and cult magazine The Face to the fore

Art Basel at the Grand Palais, Guillermo Kuitca at Musée Picasso and Małgorzata Mirga-Tas at Tate St Ives — podcast

We find out what happened when the art world descended on Paris for Art Basel, speak to Guillermo Kuitca about his new work for Musée Picasso and hear from Małgorzata Mirga-Tas about June, her work soon to go on display at Tate St Ives

A testament to the power of Pueblo ceramics and community-based curation

The exhibition “Grounded in Clay”, opening this month at the MFA Houston, was co-curated by the more than 60 members of the Pueblo Pottery Collective

The unmissable museum shows during Art Basel Paris

From a canon-reshaping survey of Surrealism to an unearthing of the zombie myth

Rule-based artist Mark Manders is ready to let loose at Art Basel Paris

The Dutch artist’s famously restrained work will feature at the fair and major European dealer and institutional shows opening in October

‘We are down here fighting for our lives’: Texas exhibition highlights crackdowns on reproductive healthcare and abortion access

Focusing on works by artists with ties to the American South, “Is It Real?” raises awareness and funds for reproductive rights for communities on the front lines

Beatriz da Costa’s pigeon-based eco-art project takes flight again in Los Angeles

The late artist's ‘interspecies’ collaboration, PigeonBlog, is launching on 19 October as part of PST Art

Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands visits Warhol show—featuring her portrait

The Paleis Het Loo is showing the artist's rarely displayed "Reigning Queens" series

Frieze, UK critics The White Pube, Giuseppe Penone and Arte Povera — podcast

We find out how the London fair went this year, speak to Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad about their new book and to Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev about her new show at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris

'Venus, morning star, sweet potato': Gagosian pairs Basquiat painting with ancient Roman sculpture for new Paris show

Exploring the theme of classical art in the American artist's work, the gallery is bringing together a 1982 canvas with a marble figure of Venus from the rarely seen Torlonia Collection

What a catch! Italian artist trio to serve up fish market performance in New York

After an inaugural outing in Milan last year, Canemorto is transforming an East Village gallery into an irreverent market for handcrafted fish art

Chila Kumari Singh Burman: ‘I’ve always rebelled against being told what to do’

The self-described “Punjabi Scouser” artist’s colourful neon works raise a smile, but with themes of feminism, racism and colonialism there is a serious intent to her art

In the first major UK exhibition of her works, Whitechapel Gallery places Lygia Clark in dialogue with Sonia Boyce

'The I and the You' spans the Brazilian artist's work from the mid 1950s to the early 1970s—some of the most repressive years of Brazil’s military dictatorship

Five not-to-miss PST Art shows at Los Angeles galleries

From the atomic to the astronomic, and the natural to supernatural, these exhibitions make the most of the Getty’s sweeping science-meets-art agenda

Paintings by Charlotte Johnson Wahl, mother of former UK prime minister Boris Johnson, reflect her time in a psychiatric hospital

An exhibition at Bethlem Museum of the Mind will “lift the lid” on subjects rarely spoken about a decade ago

Via Munch, Van Gogh and Dürer, this Helsinki exhibition captures the enduring power of the Gothic imagination

The new show at Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, explores the influence of Medieval and Renaissance art on Modern artists

7 October survivor’s show at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art marks painful anniversary

Tal Mazliach’s exhibition reflects on her personal experience of Hamas’s attack on Kibbutz Kfar Aza and the war that has raged since

Technologyinterview

All together now: Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst on their AI choir at the Serpentine

The groundbreaking musicians and artists see every part of their London show as a form of art

'Emotion is so important in his work': National Portrait Gallery charts a personal path through the career of Francis Bacon

With its first-ever Bacon show, the gallery plans to make 'a real splash with a major British artist'

New display at Tate Modern highlights role technology can play in expanding the scope of UK museum collections

Works by four artists were created as part of the Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage research project

PST Art’s science-meets-art extravaganza in eight superlatives

From the Getty initiative’s most widely exhibited artist to its most calming installation