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  • A Handful of Dust: Photography after Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp

    A haunting exhibition in which dust plays a divine agent of death

  • Howard Hodgkin: Painting India

    Radiating the heat and light of India, and expressing the artist’s love for the South Asian country, this vibrant exhibition brings Hodgkin’s “somewhere else” to the north of England

  • Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2017

    The RA’s annual open submission exhibition presents a shifting ‘kaleidoscope’ of contemporary art – but what does it show us about art now?

  • Masterpiece Fair 2017

    The fair is a theatrical display of extravagance, peppered with instantly recognisable works by big names, which it is a joy to stumble across. But there are also rarer treasures, from a previously unseen Andy Warhol sketch to a recently…

  • Isaac Julien: ‘I dream a world’ Looking for Langston

    A new exhibition focusing on the Isaac Julien’s hugely significant 1989 film delves into what made this work such a landmark in African-American and queer studies, through a presentation of newly realised photographic works and rare archival material

  • Alice Neel, Uptown

    With an uncompromising certainty of vision, Alice Neel paints individuals, capturing not only their physical likeness and inner character, but also the zeitgeist

  • Serendipity Symposium 2017

    Is serendipity entirely human – or human-driven – or can researchers into artificial intelligence design it into computer programs? Leading “serendiptologists” joined Jasia Reichardt, curator of the ICA’s iconic 1968 Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition, to debate the issue

  • Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

    With artificial environments, app-led innovations and a preponderance of site-specific video art, the fifth edition of this 10-yearly project broadens out ideas of public sculpture as never before

  • Fahrelnissa Zeid

    This exhibition tells the story of the irrepressible spirit of a true artistic visionary who has been largely forgotten by art history. Tate Modern hopes to bring Fahrelnissa Zeid’s name to the lips of contemporary art-goers once more

  • Ailbhe Ní Bhriain: Reports to an Academy

    In her latest film, Cork-based artist Ailbhe Ní Bhriain uses the perpetual ebb and flow of water and clouds to dissolve the physical integrity of highly constructed cultural institutions

  • Richard Smith: Work of Five Decades

    This is the first posthumous exhibition of Richard Smith, who died last year, and whose work straddled pop and abstract art

  • 31 Women

    Drawing on Peggy Guggenheim’s 1943 exhibition of the same name, 31 Women is a thoroughly relevant and equally captivating and surprising contemporary curation, opening dialogues across time and space

  • Balenciaga: Shaping fashion

    The V&A presents an exhibition exploring the abstract and architectural shapes of Cristóbal Balenciaga’s work in the 1950s and 60s, drawing out connections between his legacy and contemporary fashion designers

  • Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!

    This exhibition delivers everything you would expect from the colourful Grayson Perry, but it is also a reminder that he is as much a part of the establishment as he is an original thinker

  • La Seine Musicale, Paris

    Shigeru Ban has landed an ocean liner of a music venue at Paris’s westernmost edge. With two auditoria and a huge amount of public space, it is hoped the €170m building will enrich the city’s music scene and the fortunes…

  • Wayne Thiebaud: 1962 to 2017

    The quintessentially American artist Wayne Thiebaud is now 96 years old, and this impressive exhibition shows an array of his still lifes, portraits and landscapes from across the seven decades of his career

  • Calder: Hypermobility 2017

    Drawing on its extensive collection, this small but exquisite show floated by the Whitney Museum of American Art presents Alexander Calder’s balancing act as a modernist revolution whose visual vocabulary gave art another dimension

  • Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave

    This exhibition brings to life the story of the Japanese artist Hokusai’s later, and arguably greatest, years

  • Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction

    As we see from the Barbican’s science fiction exhibition, the genre has consistently looked to the future as a means to extrapolate and accentuate the hopes and fears of the present

  • Akram Zaatari: Against Photography – An Annotated History of the Arab Image Foundation

    Searching for alternative historical and cultural narratives, Zaatari reveals the contents of the Arab Image Foundation through documentary film, photography and art, bringing new readings to the collection

  • Frank Quitely: The Art of Comics

    The Glaswegian comic-book superstar Frank Quitely is celebrated in this new exhibition of his famous work

  • Florian Hecker: Synopsis

    Florian Hecker manipulates digital sound and our perception of it in this installation commissioned for Tramway

  • Lee Lozano: c 1962

    Merging human organs and household objects, Lee Lozano’s early miniatures are erotic and unsettling in equal parts

  • Joyce Pensato: FORGETTABOUT IT

    Batman, Donald Duck and Disney-style mice all loom large in the US artist Joyce Pensato’s second exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, And, although the works, all from 2017, are well-worn territory for her, she demonstrates a subtle shift in style