Exhibitions

Bengal Biennale debuts sprawling inaugural edition

Set across 27 venues in two cities, the exhibition included more than 100 artists from past and present

A bibliophile invites New Yorkers to engage with books that do not exist

A unique and artful exhibition of imaginary books is now on view at the Grolier Club

2024 in review: the biggest stories and the best shows - podcast

From the devastating war in Gaza to art attacks in museums, our editors analyse the year's biggest stories

Seeing is believing: Gérôme and Pakistan shows mark 20 years of museum building in Qatar

Exhibitions offer fresh looks at a once globally famous French 19th-century Orientalist artist and Pakistan’s embrace of modernity

Naomi Beckwith named artistic director of Documenta in 2027

The deputy director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum says she is "humbled by the breadth of this responsibility"

Jean-Michel Basquiat's love of the Alps celebrated in new exhibition

The show, at Hauser & Wirth St Moritz, looks at the artist's visits to his Swiss dealer Bruno Bischofberger, when he would go cross-country skiing and visit agricultural shows

‘While there are dictators, no one can feel safe’: projects marking anniversaries of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine emphasise need for global vigilance

Among the initiatives launched to mark both 1,000 days since the invasion and its approaching third anniversary is an exhibition in Kharkiv exploring how the concept of safety “has been profoundly redefined by the war”

Gerhard Richter once thought film wasn't for him—in Rome, his latest exhibition proves how wrong he was

The artist's 36-minute film, ‘Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019–24)’, is currently on show at Gagosian

Sajan Mani's first solo show in India confronts caste and the history of rubber

At Shrine Empire gallery in New Delhi, the Dalit artist reconsiders the past of his native Kerala

Comment | The exhibitions I adored this year—and the one I didn’t

2024 highlights from Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper's contributing editor

What links Van Gogh, Trump, a golden toilet and Cattelan's $6.2m banana?

This unlikely grouping is part of an astonishing story involving New York’s Guggenheim Museum

Gaza Biennale seeks to provide support and relief for Palestinian artists

More than 50 Palestinian artists are participating in the worldwide event

Louise Bourgeois’s mammoth spider will return to Tate Modern for the gallery's 25th anniversary

A new “capsule collection” trail will also feature works by Mark Rothko and Dorothea Tanning

Harem work removed from show at Qatar's Arab Museum of Modern Art

Renowned Turkish artist İnci Eviner says her work was pulled "without further explanation and apology" and describes the move as censorship

On the record: UK artist Peter Doig to mix music and art in new London show

From October 2025, Serpentine Galleries will host "House of Music"— a “multi-sensory environment” pairing the artist's paintings with music and film

Art Institute of Chicago explores ‘complex terrain’ of Pan-African art

A new show examines what the term means and celebrates foundational Black liberation movements

‘A message of love to the world’: Yayoi Kusama unveils new infinity room for sprawling Melbourne show

It will join a record-breaking nine other immersive rooms in the National Gallery of Victoria's retrospective on the Japanese artist, spanning eight decades

Pérez Art Museum Miami presents artistic introduction to the little-known Candomblé religion

The exhibition comprises works referencing an African diasporic religion that originated in Brazil

The Big Review: Matisse | Invitation to the Voyage at the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel ★★★★½

Sprawling survey of the Modernist master, comprising more than 70 works, is a celebration of a remarkable six-decade career

Miami exhibition explores Harlem Renaissance artist William H. Johnson’s final series of paintings

Artist’s portraits of people like Harriet Tubman and Mahatma Gandhi are a tribute to the many figures who battled discrimination

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‘I never pursued the big four or five galleries, they always scared me’: Joan Snyder on her first blue-chip show, roses, and the glass ceiling

The American artist is having her first solo exhibition at the London outpost of Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, which now represents her

‘One of a kind’: Barbican and Fondation Giacometti to collaborate on 2025 exhibition series

Historic pieces by the acclaimed Swiss sculptor Giacometti will be brought together with works by three leading contemporary artists at the Brutalist London venue

‘Everything had a huge impression on me’: Rachel Feinstein on her latest exhibition, inspired by her childhood in Miami

The artist’s solo show at The Bass in Miami Beach includes new commissions reflecting her nostalgia for the city in the 1970s and 80s

Twelve must-see exhibitions in South Florida during Miami Art Week

From ambitious new projects by Andrea Chung, Rachel Feinstein, Marguerite Humeau and José Parlá to shows devoted to the revered and recently deceased artists Jacqueline de Jong and Keiichi Tanaami

Window of opportunity: the artists who worked in retail display

A show in Basel explores the art of window dressing, with works by artists from Andy Warhol to Marina Abramović at the Tinguely Museum and across the city

Visual love poem: Robert Frank’s handmade photobook for his future wife goes on show

The work, made while the young photographer was in Paris, will be exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston