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Two shows that lost the plot
Joan Miró at MoMA and the Neue Galerie’s self-Portrait survey are both filled with great works, but they forget to stick to their themes all the way through
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Havana Biennial opens amid controversy
Works on view draw on themes of collaboration and agency, at the same time the government seeks to control what art can be shown on the island
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in San Francisco this weekend
From a Modernist community on California's northern coast, to the kimono's continuing influence on international fashion
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Hito Steyerl’s powerful critiques at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery to Rembrandt and friends at Gagosian Gallery
FeaturePodcast
From Despair to The Scream: the genesis of Edvard Munch’s most famous work
On our podcast, the curator of the British Museum’s Munch exhibition tells the story of the Norwegian artist’s anxiety at the blood-red sky he saw above the Oslo fjord, and how it led to a masterpiece
BlogThe Buck stopped here
William Eggleston's signature and style draws London crowds to David Zwirner
NewsExhibitions
Ai Weiwei creates Lego portraits of missing Mexican students
The installation investigating their disappearance is part of the artist’s show at MUAC
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
London's National Gallery defends inclusion of Salvator Mundi in Leonardo show after criticism in new book
The curator’s attribution to the Renaissance master helped Christie’s achieve a world record price for the painting
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Civil War references hide in plain sight in American pre-Raphaelite art
Landscapes on view at the National Gallery contain hidden historical clues
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Portrait of Kevin Spacey going on show at V&A raises questions
The Netflix star, who is facing indecent assault charges in the US, is subject of painting series depicting visiting theatre professors at an Oxford college
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Munch's angst-ridden prints at the British Museum to Van Gogh's love affair with the UK at Tate Britain
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Forty years rocking the foundations in Los Angeles
The Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates its anniversary by looking back over the past four decades
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'Shameful scar': Centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre marked in New Delhi exhibition
Show exploring the fateful event that saw hundreds of people killed by British soldiers aims to commemorate "forgotten martyrs"
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How Caravaggio brought naturalism to Naples
Museo di Capodimonte examines the huge influence that the Old Master had on Baroque artists active in the city
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At the Queens Museum, an artist unearths the names and stories of buried women
Alexandria Smith threads religious and African American cultural themes in her memorial installation
PreviewGermany
New Berlin exhibition exposes Emil Nolde’s Nazi ties
Show at the Hamburger Bahnhof explores how the German artist hid behind Hitler's "degenerate" label
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Oscar Murillo remembers late friend Okwui Enwezor in Kettle's Yard exhibition
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There is more to Edvard Munch than just The Scream
A British Museum exhibition explores the personal philosophy behind the Norwegian artist’s work, as well as his printmaking techniques
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The all-too-human Shinto gods descending on Cleveland
Exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art aims to bring the Japanese belief system and its often quarrelsome deities vividly to life
NewsDiscoveries
Anthony Caro's drawings corrected by Henry Moore to go on show for first time
Exhibition at East Gallery of Norwich University of the Arts aims to demonstrate the relationship between the two artists
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Hockney-Van Gogh exhibition is ‘a tame,though colourful, bit of fluff’
The British artist dominates the Van Gogh Museum’s dubious doubleheader, which offers little to connect the pair
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Sunday in Chapultepec Park with Carsten Höller
The artist’s interactive exhibition at Mexico City’s Museo Tamayo encourages visitors to explore, take drugs and dream, but is it more than just another “art experience”?
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Lismore Castle serves up a rich palimpsest of themes for new show
Irish home of the Dukes of Devonshire is grand backdrop to works by Martine Syms, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Nicole Eisenman, among others
BlogDiary
Antony Gormley's maiden VR voyage blasts off to the moon
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in Milan this weekend
From mesmeric cinematic art in a fresco-lined palazzo to the Brazilian artist Lygia Pape's first exhibition in Italy
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this week
From Lucio Fontana's punctured canvases to an intimate look at Frida Kahlo's personal objects
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Tate to show $6m Blake watercolours that sold for £1,000 in a Scottish bookshop
Discovered after 165 years, eight of the 19 paintings will be included in the London exhibition in September
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Lift-off for the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing
New exhibition in Zurich exploring artistic engagement with the Moon will be joined by more lunar-themed shows launching around the world
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The Confederate flag of surrender rises in Philadelphia
The artist Sonya Clark aims to make the symbol of truce better known than the more pervasive battle flag
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Out of time? London’s recent queer past comes under the spotlight at the Whitechapel Gallery
A new exhibition examines how the community has been affected by rapid development and gentrification in the UK capital
NewsFunding
Art venues have half the budget of science museums for temporary exhibitions, new report finds
Research by UK startup Vastari delves into hidden economics of museums' special shows
NewsExhibitions
Making art history: Zeng Fanzhi organises first show on Cézanne, Morandi and Sanyu
Non-selling exhibition at Gagosian Hong Kong includes works from Asian private collections
NewsAndres Serrano
Andres Serrano buys fake dollar bill showing Hillary Clinton behind bars
The signed novelty note will be included in the artist's upcoming Trump-themed show in New York
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She persisted: DC’s National Portrait Gallery looks at the history of the women’s vote
One of the longest reform movements in American history, which continues to be an issue today, is explored in the show
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in Hong Kong this week
From Tishan Hsu's family photographs at Empty Gallery to a group show on violence set inside a former police station
Podcast
Art Basel in Hong Kong, Richard Lin and the Met’s World Between Empires
We talk to Marc Spiegler, global director of Art Basel; discuss the forgotten artist Richard Lin; and speak to the curators of a New York exhibition on the ancient Middle East. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
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MFA Boston dissects the coded language of gender-bending fashion
Exhibition delves into Western pop culture’s great moments of binary disruption
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Moroni's inventive portraiture to Hans Op de Beeck's dreamlike world
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For Gauguin, portraits reveal more about the artist than the model
A forthcoming exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada aims to show how the painter explored his own identity through his subjects
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Naples museum explores Antonio Canova’s love for—and reinvention of—ancient sculpture
Exhibition includes more than 110 works with key loans from the Getty and the State Hermitage Museum
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Ernesto Neto's São Paulo retrospective to present interactive installations with an indigenous focus
Exhibition includes Brazilian artist’s large-scale, immersive sculptures, and his work with the Huni Kuin people
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Masp retrospective to explore Lina Bo Bardi's legacy and influence on Brazilian art
The Italian architect, who made Brazil her "adopted home", designed the eclectic São Paulo museum in the late 1940s
InterviewLuc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans: ‘People are becoming more and more stupid, insanely stupid’
As a major new exhibition of his work opens in Venice, the Belgian painter explains how painting can help us confront our own ignorance
FeatureArt's Most Popular 2019
Art in the age of Instagram and the power of going viral
As visitors to exhibitions are increasingly sharing their experiences online, should curators plan shows for maximum hype?
FeatureArt's Most Popular 2019
Relax and immerse yourself... the art of experiencing museums slowly
Schemes such as Slow Art Day offer an alternative to life in the fast lane, away from the jostling crowds and selfie-takers
BlogArt's Most Popular 2019
Suffering from the blockbuster blues? Here are some top tips for beating the exhibition queues
We asked museums for advice and The Art Newspaper team for their best hacks
BlogArt's Most Popular 2019
A dash of fashion and a pinch of gratis: the perfect recipe for a sell-out show
From creating “experiences” to being fashion-friendly, museums are getting savvy at driving visitors to their exhibitions. Here are some tricks of the trade
NewsYoko Ono
Yoko Ono requests photographs of women's eyes for Leipzig retrospective
The exhibition opening in April at the Museum of Fine Arts is billed as the artist’s biggest-ever solo show in Germany
NewsArt's Most Popular 2019
Heavenly figures: how two Met shows topped The Art Newspaper’s attendance survey
The New York museum's Heavenly Bodies exhibition came first even though curator “never set out to create a hit”
PreviewExhibitions
Six exhibitions to see during Art Basel in Hong Kong
Escape fairtigue with gallery shows across the city, from Mary Corse and Louise Bourgeois to Tishan Hsu and Richard Lin
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Overlooked, but not forgotten: Tishan Hsu presents first solo gallery show in over 20 years
His most recent works are on display at the gallery’s Grand Marine Center venue, while earlier pieces are on view at its stand at Art Basel Hong Kong
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Society’s veiled gender violence laid bare in Hong Kong exhibition
This graphic show in the former police station Tai Kwun comes with age restrictions
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Emma Kunz's powerful abstract drawings at the Serpentine Gallery to Mike Nelson's industrial sculptures at Tate Britain
NewsPerformance art
After making waves in Venice, Anne Imhof unleashes her Sex piece at Tate Modern
Performers will reflect the "fluidity between binaries" across full suite of spaces in the Tanks
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the "computer cowgirl" Gretchen Bender to Girault de Prangey's haunting snapshots of the past
PreviewExhibitions
Emma Kunz and the art of healing: drawings used in rituals come to London
Serpentine Gallery presents the first major UK exhibition of the mystical Swiss artist’s work
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Powerful, political and pungent: Mike Nelson's Tate Britain commission
NewsExhibitions
'It's not about shock value': Russian artist skins, eats and performs sex acts on dead animals in the name of art
New exhibition in Italy shows videos from Petr Davydtchenko's past three years living exclusively off road-kill
PreviewExhibitions
St. Louis show sniffs out why Egyptians smashed noses
Exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation explores how Pharaohs and Christians alike went in for vandalising and “killing” icons
CommentThe Jewish Museum
Ancient antisemitic tropes are resurfacing—it is time to uncover the myths
New exhibition in London shows negative ideas around Jewish people have a long history, in which artists have played their part—and continue to do so
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From the collaborative creations of the Chicago Imagists at Goldsmiths CCA to the reopening of John Soane's Pitzhanger Manor
PreviewExhibitions
Ilya Repin remains the provocateur in Moscow show
Visitors of a certain age may well be shocked to find that ultimately the Russian artist loathed the Bolsheviks as much as he did the tsars
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a meditation on power to female sexual awakening
PreviewExhibitions
Grandmaster flash of the Mediterranean—Joaquín Sorolla comes to London's National Gallery
The enormously productive painter wielded the fastest of brushes on often huge canvases, suffusing them with Spanish sun and colour
BlogIn the frame
More of Dior: Designer of Dreams show extended at V&A
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Hermitage and Pushkin join forces to show stellar Russian collections of Modern art
The museums are pooling the divided collections of Sergei Shchukin and Morozov brothers for a quartet of exhibitions
NewsKara Walker
Southern discomfort: Kara Walker to take over Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this autumn
The Tate had previously purchased a large linoleum silhouette work by Walker in 1998
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The music of Mark Rothko finally sounds in the land of Mozart
First exhibition in Austria reveals Abstract Expressionist’s identification with the work of the Old Masters
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Henry Moore’s Helmet Heads at the Wallace Collection to Renaissance nudes at the Royal Academy of Arts
CommentArt's Most Popular 2019
Exhibitions are a numbers game, whether we like it or not
Today's directors are focused on figures—and not always for the right reasons
Brian Allen