The show’s curator Ingrid Schaffner has avoided an ill-fitting theme and allowed the art to speak for itself—sometimes this works and sometimes it does not

The British film-maker’s first US museum survey at the New Museum shows that he is one of the most forceful and stirring artists of the day—and one of our best social archaeologists

The scholar will give six talks surveying more than 2,000 years of Chinese history

From anatomy to Americana

Exhibitions of Grant Wood, Precisionism and interwar Europe draw parallels with today

Outliers and American Vanguard Art in Washington, DC, makes clear that schooled and self-taught artists have never been that far apart

Court artist had an impressive roster of sitters including Mary Rose Tudor

Museum shows closing this month

Visitors should not rush through the Los Angeles artist’s mid-career survey at New York’s Whitney Museum

The US artist Brice Marden takes a new tack in his latest works, on show at Gagosian in London

From a divine Renaissance man to Indian Modernists

Questions about identity abound in the travelling retrospective of the American artist’s work

The late painter’s shaped canvases, including some museum loans, are the subject of a survey in New York

The Getty Foundation-backed series of exhibitions across Southern California this year looks at the cultural crosscurrents between Latin America and Los Angeles. Here, we offer capsule reviews of some of the most significant exhibitions

Lygia Clark’s spray gun painting is complemented by a survey of radical Latin American female artists

The current associate director of MoMA plans to put her relationships with artists "to very good use"

Petrit Halilaj has made 500 sculptures based on images of Neolithic artefacts

The artist was brilliant long before he came to the city, but his US works are his greatest achievements

Hundreds of exhibitors are due to take part and a slew of events are planned

How do you organise an event with more than 70 exhibitions?

Former Santa Monica museum relaunches in renovated clothing factory

For his travelling project, Mel Ziegler exchanged old flags—from private homeowners, a National Guard office and even a casino—for new ones

The Museum of Fine Arts will offer three days of free admission

A group of exhibitions and programmes to artists from across the Americas

The poet draws parallels between making sculpture and writing verse

His work is currently on show in Soul of a Nation at Tate Modern

Tate Modern chronicles the rise of Black Power in post-war America

The former Sotheby's executive takes over from Willem van Roijen and will be based in New York

Soul of a Nation includes around 150 works looking at the realities of the African American experience

In recognition of the gift, the New York museum will name its largest new gallery after the collectors