The must-see exhibitions in 2025: from Leigh Bowery in London to Michaelina Wautier in Vienna
We round-up the biggest shows opening each month
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
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
Parrish Art Museum provides a fitting tribute to Audrey Flack, queen of ‘Post-Pop Baroque’
The New York show celebrates the late artist's melding of contemporary culture with art history
Israeli artist, curator and gallery founder Chaim Peri has died in Hamas captivity, aged 79
Peri, who was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October, was a multi-disciplinary artist and activist who founded The White House gallery
For many in Israel’s art community, protests have replaced practice
Six months after 7 October, Israeli artists and arts workers remain active in popular movements calling for the release of hostages and ousting of Benjamin Netanyahu
Archaeologists in Israel join effort to identify victims of Hamas attacks
First-of-its-kind operation has seen experts continue the grim search at a forensic level
Israeli gallery destroyed by Hamas finds new homes
Be’eri Gallery was burned during the 7 October attack, but displays in Jerusalem and beyond are carrying its legacy
‘We were both shocked that the photo was ever taken’: the collectors who assembled a trove of early vernacular photos of men in love
Texas-based collectors Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell have amassed a collection of more than 4,000 early photos, some of which are now on view at a Swiss museum
Modernist sculptor William Edmondson's journey from carving headstones to KAWS collection
The career of the self-taught artist, who was the first Black artist to have a solo show at MoMA, is explored at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia
Unseen Dora Maar works discovered at auction go on show for first time
Trove of drawings, texts, and paintings on paper bought as an anonymous lot by savvy private collectors will be exhibited in the south of France
Twelve must-see exhibitions in New York during Frieze
From Lauren Halsey's new commission for the Met rooftop to funkily subversive sculptures at the Museum of Arts and Design, the season's essential exhibitions
A homecoming for Abstract Expressionist Shirley Jaffe at Tefaf New York
The native Brooklynite, fêted in Europe, figures prominently on Nathalie Obadia’s stand at the fair
An overdue showcase for midcentury abstractionist Anna Walinska
A presentation at the American Art Fair puts Walinska in context with Elaine de Kooning and others
‘Everything was taken from me’: how Lotte Laserstein’s paintbox saved her during Nazi-era exile
Largest exhibition of the German-born artist opens at the Moderna Museet in her adopted home of Sweden
Mysterious Picasso portrait may be the key to Adrienne Fidelin’s place in art history
Fidelin, a Black dancer and model who was Man Ray’s partner and muse for years, is believed to be the subject of a Picasso portrait that has not been shown publicly since 1985
The story of Juan de Pareja: from Diego Velázquez’s slave to distinguished artist
Although the artist is best known as the subject of a portrait by his master, a new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will shine a light on his life and career
How artists' day jobs can have a big impact on their art
An exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art brings together examples of artists drawing inspiration from having to earn a wage away from the studio
‘She started here’: Buffalo, New York, honours Cindy Sherman half a century after hosting her first solo show
The celebrated Pictures Generation photographer, who studied at Buffalo State University, is the subject of a retrospective at the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts
Mexican émigré Olga Costa makes a fruitful return to her native city with Leipzig exhibition
The German city is hosting the first major European exhibition of her paintings, which are barely known outside her adopted country of Mexico
Works by three overlooked Abstract Expressionists, newly represented by Hollis Taggart, head to Art Miami
The nonagenarian painter Sheila Isham and the estates of Albert Kotin and Norman Carton—all first-generation AbEx artists—are now represented by Taggart, who will show their work at Art Miami
The Black studio photographers of 19th and early 20th-century America come into focus
A new exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art focuses on the flourishing African American portraiture industry that emerged immediately after photography’s invention
Subversive ceramics by enslaved Black potters go on show at New York's Met Museum
The exhibition stages works ranging from Dave the Potter in 1834 to contemporary responses by the likes of Theaster Gates and Simone Leigh
A homecoming for Abstract Expressionist Grace Hartigan at The Armory Show
A solo stand of the second-generation AbEx artist’s work gives a fuller picture of her evolution over more than 50 years
Stand back: Rijksmuseum displays huge works on paper—some the size of an entire room—in new exhibition
The Amsterdam museum pulls out the largest paintings, drawings and prints on paper from its collection
Fish scales, nettles and banana leaf? Exhibition of traditional Japanese garments made with unusual materials opens in Minneapolis
A show at the Minneapolis Institute of Art displays more than 120 Japanese textiles made from the stuff of nature
New podcast reveals lives of queer 19th-century women through letters of photographer Alice Austen
"My Dear Alice" explores, through hundreds of letters written to the unheralded artist, the romantic correspondences of Victorian-era women
New show in Los Angeles keeps an ancient culture alive by ‘nourishing’ its objects
An exhibition of Colombian ceramics and other artefacts at the Los Angeles Museum of Art was informed by advice from an Arhuaco spritual leader
Zip line planned for Ancient Jerusalem draws criticism from heritage officials and threatens to spark regional tension
A controversial Israeli development plan will also install a cable car to the city's Western Wall, a Jewish holy site
How Anni Albers’s matzah cover went from a family’s Passover table to the Jewish Museum
Artist and graphic designer Elaine Lustig Cohen commissioned the pioneering textile artist to make the piece of modernist Judaica in 1959