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Exhibitions

Where art enthusiasts turn to discover what’s worth seeing, and what might just change the way they view the world. A beacon for art lovers seeking sharp, thoughtful critiques of the contemporary and classic, plus in-depth analyses exploring the themes, techniques and cultural significance of each exhibition. A mix of expert opinions and fresh perspectives, highlighting both blockbuster shows and hidden gems. Expect vivid descriptions, insightful commentary, and a keen eye for what makes each exhibition unique. Read more about Arts.

A woman in a pink long-sleeved shirt leans over a paint-splattered wooden table piled with crumpled paint tubes, with large abstract paintings visible behind her in the studio.

Francesca Mollett’s Architecture of Abstraction

In “Buried Shadow” at GRIMM, she transforms memory, matter and perception into tableau vivants in which light, color and form shift under the eye.
By Elisa Carollo
An immersive purple installation shows a person lying on a raised platform beneath suspended screens, with a surrounding pit of blue and pink plastic balls and projected digital imagery on the walls.

The Future-Facing Museum Exhibitions Not to Miss in Basel

This year’s strongest Art Basel-adjacent shows are asking big questions about our future, with artists using digital worlds, living systems, petrochemicals, machines and ritual to consider what might come next.
By Elisa Carollo
A painting of a dead, trussed sheep

One Fine Show: “Zurbarán” at the National Gallery in London

This artist looked life square in the face, and painted it in all its beauty and viscerality.
By Dan Duray
A studio portrait shows a man wearing sunglasses, a white T-shirt and tan pants standing in a cluttered workshop with tools, shelves, hoses, sculptures and worktables around him.

Sébastien Léon’s Material Exploration

By Christa Terry
An installation view shows translucent circular panels wrapping through the Korean Pavilion, with sculptural stations placed throughout the sunlit wooden interior.

In the Korean Pavilion, Nation-Building Is an Open and Ongoing Process

By Elisa Carollo
An installation view shows a white gallery with a large red wall text work, three smaller red text panels, paintings on surrounding walls and a bright yellow sculptural exclamation mark on the floor.

Sprüth Magers Celebrates a Decade in Los Angeles With the Artists Who Helped Define a City

By Jordan Riefe
An abstract work on paper shows many black and red dots, eyes, stars, spirals and curving lines spread across a cream-colored background, with color calibration bars visible at the top and bottom.

Joan Miró’s Joy Is as Infectious as Ever

By Dian Parker
An installation view of “INFRASUPRA” shows FOROF’s dark archaeological space with black felt surrounding ancient marble fragments and blue spherical forms partially embedded in the floor.

At Giovanna Caruso Fendi’s FOROF, Rome’s Past Finds New Context in the Contemporary

By Elisa Carollo
A messy bed with white sheets and two pillows on a blue rug. There are garbage strewn around

One Fine Show: “Tracey Emin, A Second Life” at Tate Modern in London

By Dan Duray
A spacious gallery installation with suspended vertical wires, colorful curved glass panels arranged across the floor, and large wall-mounted glass works.

Su Xiaobai’s Meditative Material Practice Is the Focus of One of the Biennale’s Most Commanding Shows

By Elisa Carollo
Photo by Dan Bradica Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

The Temporal and Geographical Ambiguity of Mark Manders

By Elisa Carollo
A man sits cross-legged in front of a large quilt-like textile with red, blue and white geometric patterns.

At Marianne Boesky, Sanford Biggers Rewrites the Rules of Material Storytelling

By Elisa Carollo
A sculptural assemblage in black leaning against a cream-colored wall

One Fine Show: “Louise Nevelson, Mrs. N’s Palace” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz

By Dan Duray
An ornate museum gallery with dark curtains, glass cabinets and classical busts displays several white pillow-like sculptural figures positioned across the floor.

Erwin Wurm Transforms the Fortuny Museum into a Theater of the Absurd

By Elisa Carollo
A gallery room with deep blue walls featuring two abstract paintings, one with multicolor rectangles on a gold background and another dominated by black and white blocks, with two visitors sitting on a wooden bench observing the artworks.

One Fine Show: “Beyond Mysticism, The Modern Northwest” at the Seattle Art Museum

By Dan Duray
An altar-like wooden cabinet combines expressive painted panels and handmade puppets arranged in a theatrical tableau against a black wall.

One Fine Show: “Paula Rego, Dance Among Thorns” at MUNCH in Oslo

By Dan Duray
A painter stands in a studio surrounded by large, brightly colored abstract canvases.

50 Years of Groundbreaking Work: Kunstmuseum Basel Puts Helen Frankenthaler Front and Center

By Dian Parker
A person with short gray-streaked hair and glasses sits on the floor in front of a staged storefront installation featuring signs for “psychic readings” and a neon hand-and-eye symbol behind a barred window.

Nick Doyle’s “Mirror, Mirror” Turns the American Dream Inside Out

By Elisa Carollo
Small statue busts are displayed on neon yellow plinths in a gallery space with white walls and a dark floor

An Art-Lover’s Guide to Tunis’ Ground-Up Contemporary Scene

By Naima Morelli
A highly detailed silver sculpture resembling a human face, displayed on a white pedestal in a circular, ornately carved wooden hall with additional busts on stands in the background.

Barry X Ball Connects the Secular and Sacred in “The Shape of Time”

By Madeleine Seidel
A grid of torn black-and-white portraits is repaired with thin gold lines.

Don’t Miss: Giles Duley’s “Distortion / Memory / Resilience” at Sutton Tower

By Kinvara Balfour
A monumental red abstract sculpture with a curled, organic top rises from the floor in a minimalist white gallery.

A Major Martin Puryear Retrospective Reveals an Artist Who Has Never Stopped Evolving

By Anthony Paletta

How Fashion Exhibitions Became Laboratories for Interdisciplinary Thinking

By Matthew Yokobosky
An installation view of Giuseppe Penone’s exhibition featuring a monumental wall covered in bark-like brown panels punctuated by turquoise sculptural forms, with a tree-like bronze sculpture suspended over a stone base in the center of the gallery.

10 Ambitious Gallery Shows to See in New York

By Elisa Carollo
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