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The Whitney Biennial has long asked what it means to be American. As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, this year’s exhibition refuses easy answers. Instead, 56 artists explore grief, belonging, and interspecies kinship in New York’s most talked

Imagine walking into a museum where artworks respond to your heartbeat and even the scents adapt to your body’s signals. That is the promise behind DATALAND, media artist Refik Anadol’s new Los Angeles institution, whose founders describe it as the

More than 800 pounds of peanut butter cover the floor of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, reviving one of Wim T. Schippers’ most iconic conceptual works. Staged after the artist’s death last month, the installation celebrates his lifelong commitment

Ai Weiwei’s Button Up! examines the intertwined histories of China and Britain through an ambitious exhibition of sculpture, installation and new commissions. Set within a former industrial hall in Manchester, it explores empire, industrialisation, migration and censorship, revealing how history

Manifesta, the nomadic European biennial that uses each edition to engage with the social and historical realities of its host region, presents its sixteenth edition across Germany’s Ruhr Area, transforming disused postwar churches into spaces for art, dialogue, and community,

Sonia Boyce’s Demonstrate at the Queens Museum brings together film, photography, sound, and installation to explore collaboration, participation, and collective making, treating these not as subject matter but as a working method through which meaning is produced in real time

Kyotographie: Kawada Kikuji x Iwane Ai unites two generations of Japanese photography in their first joint presentation in the UK. Through distinct yet complementary practices, Kawada and Iwane examine the enduring legacies of war, migration, nature, and identity with remarkable

Returning for its 258th edition, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2026 fills Burlington House with 1,851 works by 1,241 artists. Coordinated by Ryan Gander under the theme Interconnectedness, it celebrates artistic diversity at scale, yet its vastness often strains the

Jonathan Baldock’s Held at Arnolfini, Bristol, builds an immersive environment of ceramics, textiles and sound where care and threat coexist. Folkloric imagery and bodily forms create an intimate, unstable space, drawing viewers into a shifting encounter that is physical and

Bringing together 290 galleries from 43 countries, Art Basel 2026 extends from historical anchors through contemporary practices into increasingly constructed, large-scale environments. The fair still functions as a central meeting point for the market, but its relevance now depends less