PreviewBiennials & festivals
‘Post-industrial’ Biennale de Lyon to examine shifting social and economic experience of the region
As the largest edition of the biennial expands into an abandoned factory, we also roundup new festivals sprouting up around the world
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Verrocchio's first major US survey to delve into his role in shaping the High Renaissance
The artist is best known as Leonardo’s teacher, but an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington aims to highlight his own technical accomplishment and inventiveness
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The lauded Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck finally gets major UK show
Although her greatest work was painted in St Ives, the artist is little known in the UK—but a survey at the Royal Academy of Arts hopes to change that
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Carmen Herrera’s dream project to bloom in New York's City Hall Park
The aluminium sculptures are based on 1960s archival drawings with three being realised for the first time
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Wong Ping tells us about his explicit animations and how his working process is like a stand-up comedian’s
The Hong Kong artist brings his explicit retro-pop videos to London's Camden Arts Centre and Mayfair
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Electromagnetic man: Tate Modern attracts largest UK exhibition of Takis
The experimental Greek artist will show works from the 1950s to the early 2000s, including a rarely seen kinetic pendulum sculpture
PreviewArt Basel 2019
Kunstmuseum Basel digs into the roots of Cubism
Exhibition traces the evolution of the splintered style that changed Modern art forever
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Art meets dance in Alexandra Pirici's living time capsule at Art Basel
Sixty dancers will enact "performative environment" on the Messeplatz in Basel every day this week
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Danish exhibition explores the art of porn
Show at Aros includes works by pioneering feminists Carolee Schneemann and Betty Tompkins as well as a controversial Surrealist work by Wilhelm Freddie
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Meet the last Renaissance man: Goethe's influence on art explored at the Bundeskunsthalle
The vast show examines Goethe's influence and his dominance of the 18th and 19th century European intellectual world
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Barbican show in London aims to raise Lee Krasner’s profile
Exhibition continues the re-evaluation of the Abstract Expressionist who spent too long in the shadow of husband Jackson Pollock
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Serpentine opens first institutional survey of Luchita Hurtado, while Tate St Ives welcomes Huguette Caland
Santa Monica-based artist, "discovered" at 94, has a retrospective in London and the 88-year-old Lebanese artist makes her UK debut in Cornwall
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Whitney Biennial aims to focus on artists but—as protests mount—it cannot escape politics
The Whitney Museum has turned to two in-house curators to put together a show that celebrates diversity in American art—but as in 2017, the biennial is already mired in controversy
PreviewJannis Kounellis
Arte Povera at Prada: first major survey of Jannis Kounellis since his death opens in Venice
The Fondazione Prada exhibition of the Greek-Italian artist has been organised by veteran curator Germano Celant
PreviewCostume Institute
Bold, ironic and camp: Met show explores exuberant expression in fashion
Costume Institute's new exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion examines camp from the 17th century onwards
PreviewVenice Biennale 2019
The Art Newspaper's pick of the 2019 Venice Biennale
From a psychedelic furry grotto to a Tintoretto tribute—what to see at the pavilions and beyond
PreviewTEFAF Maastricht 2019
Still life thrives and Group Zero nails it: expert collecting guides for Tefaf Maastricht
Dealers tell us the hot trends and what to buy at the Dutch fair
NewsEdvard Munch
British Museum to stage major show of Munch prints
Exhibition in London will be largest in 50 years
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Under the skin of Jusepe de Ribera’s ‘extreme violence’ at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
First major UK exhibition of Spanish artist aims to show how his brutal realism was informed by classicism
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The Medici touch: exhibition shows how Florence fell for Islamic art
Six centuries of city’s connection to Muslim world explored in rare Uffizi and Bargello collaboration
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Unbridled enthusiasm for the art of horse racing on show in France
Exhibition at Domaine de Chantilly is the first on the development of the painting tradition
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Ai Weiwei retraces his father's steps to Marseille in 1929 for new show
Chinese artists unveils new commissions alongside 50 works at the Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée
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Key figure of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Charles White, finally gets his due
Chicago, New York and Los Angeles to celebrate artist and activist after lengthy search for works
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
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
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Medieval or modern? Show on 'time' in the Middle Ages reveals similarities between life then and now
Morgan Library exhibition includes 55 calendars, Bibles and chronicles
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Thomas Cole's Old World roots and art-world inspirations examined in transatlantic show
Exhibition on US painter opens at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art before travelling to London
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Washington show aims to clear up muddy ‘Outsider art’ label
From erotic photographs to psychedelic quilts, a reappraisal of autodidacticism features more than 80 eclectic artists
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Birthday bash for Baselitz as he turns 80
Simultaneous exhibitions dedicated to German artist open in Basel
PreviewThe Year Ahead 2018
The top biennials and events coming up this year
Manifesta travels to Sicily and a new triennial is due to open in the US, while Glasgow and Liverpool welcome back their big exhibitions in 2018
NewsArt fairs
American heritage is back in style at Design Miami
Some of the fair's Curios presentations look to traditional craft and wood furniture
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Largest survey of Qatari contemporary art to open in Berlin despite ongoing blockade
Exhibition is final event in Year of Culture partnership between Qatar and Germany
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Greek show goes on despite slashed budget
With little money, the Thessaloniki biennial curators press on
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Jerusalem, a divided city, comes to life in two exhibitions
Exhibitions at the Israel Museum and the new Palestinian Museum offer differing perspectives
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How migratory birds helped an artist tap into Kosovan cultural heritage
Petrit Halilaj has made 500 sculptures based on images of Neolithic artefacts
NewsBiennials & festivals
Rehab and reuse top of agenda at Chicago Architecture Biennial
The second edition promises visionary solutions and a few surprises
NewsExpo Chicago
Expo Chicago courts the high-minded collector with interdisciplinary offerings
This year’s edition is designed to maximise crossover potential with the second Chicago Architecture Biennial
NewsMedia & broadcast
Art drama muscles in on documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival
Artists’ lives—including Tom of Finland, Laurie Simmons, Julian Schnabel and Richard Hambleton—get the cinematic treatment
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Royal Academy's Ab Ex show is about more than just men and pigeonholes
Survey seeks to challenge long-held notions about the movement
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Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Discoballs and déjà vu
Serpentine Gallery surveys full breadth of artist’s work in a great London show
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National Portrait Gallery shows Picasso as a canny caricaturist
Artist’s keen eye and sharp wit are explored in major exhibition of portraits
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In pictures: PAD London
These six works provide a taster of PAD’s tenth anniversary offerings, from Modern and decorative art to tribal art, antiquities and design
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Mullican and Camplin expand consciousness at the Camden Arts Centre
Hypnosis, telepathy and the sixth sense are among the themes in the two new shows
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The Art Newspaper's international autumn exhibition guide
Seven must-see shows opening in the coming months
NewsArt fairs
The show must go on at Brussels Art Fair
Despite the security lockdown in the Belgian capital in November, Europe’s oldest art fair is back with an expanded, more international edition
NewsModern art
What Delacroix taught the Moderns: Beth Wright on Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art
A splendid exhibition gauges the painter's influence on the Impressionists and post-Impressionists
NewsContemporary art
Where anxiety lives: Jessica Lynne on Rashid Johnson
The artist’s Drawing Center exhibition channels the disquiet of black life
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John Hoyland show opens Hirst’s new Vauxhall gallery
Hirst is a fan and friend of the late abstract painter
NewsContemporary art
The wit and wisdom of Jimmie Durham, poet, sculptor and rolling stone
Show at the Serpentine in London is all about living in Europe—but he can’t shake off his Native American roots
NewsContemporary art
All roads lead to Camden as Auerbach comes to town
Paintings of north London form cornerstone of Tate exhibition
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Expo Chicago: Art goes above and beyond the gallery walls
The fair’s fourth edition will have works hanging from the ceiling, public art around the city and the first Greater Midwest Curatorial Forum
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Art Basel: an old fair gets a new(ish) look
This year’s edition offers a more logical layout and a green Messeplatz project
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Satellite fairs widen their appeal
Our pick of events in New York this week, which embrace “African-ness”, Isamu Noguchi, live music and pet portraiture