Summer draws us to the water, but some of the world’s most compelling art destinations have always belonged there. From former docklands to coastal museums, our top selections reveal how maritime histories continue to shape where contemporary art is exhibited and experienced today. Piraeus, Athens Piraeus is technically a city of its own, but urban expansion has absorbed it into

Ana Mendieta’s unfinished artistic legacy takes centre stage at Tate Modern in the largest UK retrospective devoted to the Cuban American artist in more than a decade. Through photographs, films, sculptures, and installations, the exhibition explores the body, the earth, identity, and belonging. The exhibition highlights Mendieta’s most celebrated body of work, the Silueta Series. Here, she carved, burned, or

New York’s Museum Mile has become the focus of an ongoing Legionnaires’ disease outbreak after Legionella bacteria were found in the cooling towers of the Guggenheim and the Metropolitan Museum of Art during city inspections. Both museums remain open and say visitors and staff are safe. The Guggenheim was the first institution to report a positive test result. During a

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 about and hotly debated exhibition. Several works give the Whitney Biennial 2026 its emotional weight. Kelly Akashi’s Monument (Altadena) is