BrainCan - exhibitions

welcome to netpark: the worlds first invisible art...

Talk to trees in an augmented reality treasure hunt or attend the king and queen of Scentopia defeat...

80 years after the retirada

In 1939,Spanish refugees started to flee the country’s bitter civil war, in a movement that’s...

illuminating exhibitions in light and shade

Washington-based lighting designer Alex Cooper reveals how his work helps bring stories and museum...

colour and vision review - a mind expanding...

Natural History Museum,London From Madagascan moths to clever clams, this demonstrate brings the...

happy valley explores the toxicity of american...

“When I started making jubilant (extremely joyful) Valley,I was still struggling with the hangover...

zeen by scheltens abbenes

Maurice Scheltens and Liesbeth Abbenes have long been preoccupied by perspective. In fact,this year...

a guide to exhibition promotion

A private view may generate modern interest and even lead to prospective buyers,but how enact you...

haley morris cafiero s the bully pulpit

In 2010,US photographer Haley Morris-Cafiero set up a camera to win a self-portrait in Times Square,...

golden years: sicily at the british museum

Greek temples and cyclops skeletons made Sicily an early tourist destination,but few people know...

passion, persistence and burning ambition: getting...

As windows to the world or portals into faraway places,photographs have the ability to transport the...

sfmomas reopening: a game changer for san...

With its newly acquired collection of Richters and Warhols and a multi-million dollar renovation,the...

massimo vitali: short stories

"For me the beach is the perfect site to observe people," wrote Massimo Vitali on his blog back in...

busy living everything with everyone, everywhere,...

Succeeding the museum’s founding director,Jean-Luc Monterosso, Simon Baker plans to open up both...

hoarders or collectors? our frightened society has...

current York art point to The Keeper celebrates our poetic obsession with objects,but how many of us...

julian cope on celts: my wild romance

Pictish stones,Viking ring brooches and the Celtic football strip … a new present at the British...

emerging europeans at paris circulation(s)...

The Circulation(s) festival returns to Paris from 20 April - 30 June,featuring work by photographers...

the best jewellery box in the world: lifting the...

A 16th-century diamond smuggled to London inside a horse,a rare dagger from an Indian court … as a...

joanna piotrowska on show at tate britain

Born in Poland in 1985 and based in London,Joanna Piotrowska has had a stellar career so far....

hanna moon joyce ng: english as a second...

Hanna Moon was born in South Korea,Joyce Ng "spent her youth in the multitude of sprawling malls...

shoes: pleasure and pain review: v a explores...

From tiny Chinese slippers for women’s bound feet to contemporary-day fetishwear,exhibition looks...

anthony hernandez: 45 years on show in madrid

“People always ask me why I stopped photographing people,” says Anthony Hernandez, who in the...

who s looking at the family now?

2019 marks a quarter of a century since Val Williams’ curated her seminal exhibition,Who’s...

cecil beaton and more star at the fashion and...

Born in London’s prosperous Hampstead in 1904,Cecil Beaton went to school with Evelyn Waugh (who...

be patient, self aware and have humility

Rena Effendi has spent years steadily building a successful career in photography. A social...

shoes: pleasure and pain review: va explores...

From tiny Chinese slippers for women’s bound feet to contemporary-day fetishwear,exhibition looks...

lucas blalock s an enormous oar

Shooting meticulously set-up still lifes on film with a large format camera,Lucas Blalock scans his...

a bird flies backwards

It started in the early summer of 2018,when Cole Flynn Quirke’s grandmother passed absent after...

andy warhol s polaroid pictures

In 1971 Polaroid introduced the enormous Shot camera; featuring an integrated flash,viewfinder and...

q a: paul thulin s pine tree ballads

In the early 1900s,Paul Thulin's great-grandfather settled on the coast of Maine, reminded of...

contemporary identity at mundo latinx

“We were fascinated by the wealthy diversity of Latin America and the Latinx diaspora experience...

a new photo gallery opens in london

A novel photography gallery has opened in East London with its inaugural reveal,Reduction,...

the art of the qur an - landmark exhibit shows...

First major exhibit on the Qur’an in the US,at the Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery in Washington,...

florence henri: reflecting bauhaus

Born in New York in 1893,Florence Henri left the city when she was two years extinct after the death...

q a: george selley s a study of assassination

In 1997,a document titled A Study of Assassination was released by the CIA as part of the Freedom of...

dr yasufumi nakamori is tate modern s new...

Dr Yasufumi Nakamori has been appointed unique senior curator,International Art (Photography) based...

implicit tensions: mapplethorpe now

In the winter of 1988,at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, an exhibition opened, or...

faire le mur review - the wonderful world of...

Musée des Arts Dcoratifs,ParisFrom timeless geometrical designs to elaborate trompe l’oeil...

restricted images by patrick waterhouse and the...

The subtitle of Patrick Waterhouse’s latest work,Restricted Images, is Made with the Warlpiri of...

handsworth self portrait: 40 years on

When Derek Bishton,John Reardon, and Brian Homer set up a photography and design agency in the late...

nonstop metropolis: viewing a citys crazy,...

Rebecca Solnit completes a trilogy that began with San Francisco and New Orleans,with a book and...

zaha hadids walkout and a throne of weapons - the...

Glasgow gets ready for the Turner prize. Plus,Damien Hirst’s fresh exhibition space opens, and...

wonder materials: graphene and beyond review -...

Museum of Science and Industry,ManchesterFaced with an invisible fabric and no whizzy inventions to...

save the world, then ice a cake: how women have to...

Exhibition of celebrity female to-achieve lists,from Jilly Cooper to Cherie Booth, offers insight...

blistering barnacles! tintin is back - with added...

Hergé’s adventurer is born again for the iPad age,with a recent show and a digital project that...

museums are letting visitors get to grips with the...

remove Me (I’m Yours) at Monnaie de Paris is the latest exhibit to encourage visitors to consume...

sara cwynar s image model muse

Discovered objects and images play a vital role in the work of Vancouver-born,Brooklyn-based artist...

evolution of the photobook belge

"To date,hardly any research has been conducted into Belgian photobooks," opens the exhibition...

a kind of magic with benjamin deroche

Born in 1981,French photographer Benjamin Deroche studied literature before becoming a photographer...

steffi klenz s lively still life staffages

In the late 1700s and early 1800s,painters sometimes included 'staffages' in their work -...

this week s exhibitions

the npg not to proceed with a £1m sackler trust...

London’s National Portrait Gallery is no longer taking a £1m gift from the Sackler Trust,amid...

the smithsonian should be ashamed of showing bill...

The Washington museum has released an extraordinary disclaimer approximately its current African and...

tender - in love with contemporary czech...

A group show of contemporary Czech photography,Tender is dedicated to work that "registers...

orhan pamuk and elif shafak: istanbul, city of...

As his Museum of Innocence comes to Britain,the Nobel prizewinner takes his fellow author Elif...

london gallery honours tarantino precursor jusepe...

Art of Violence exhibition in Dulwich to explore depictions of torture and martyrdom by 17th-century...

sunken cities review - archaeology dressed up as...

British Museum,LondonThis frustrating exhibit about the lost worlds’ of the Nile Delta has too...

couple snubbed by victorian society are celebrated...

Exhibition will tell chronicle of earl and his circus performer wife who fled their Cheshire mansion...

artist stanley spencers earliest sketchbook to go...

Book was discovered among family papers kept by his daughter,and will form part of exhibition at...

joseph wright, justine frischmann and posing for...

A Grand Tour of the Midlands,Top Gear’s controversial spin around the Cenotaph and Britain’s...

breathless experience: freediving film...

By setting up four screens in an underground hangar,artist Martina Amati aims to immerse visitors in...

bed, bath and beyond: napoleons dying days brought...

From the iron cot in which he died to the flagstones that covered his grave,a Paris exhibition...

pottery fragment offers evidence of christian...

Shard inscribed with chi rho symbol found near Thames in Brentford will proceed on display for first...

your sexual fantasies: the results are in

One man wants to service soldiers on leave,one woman was taught approximately multiple orgasms...

brian griffin s spud on the anomaly of potato...

In 2017,Brian Griffin was invited to undertake an artist’s residency in Béthune-Bruay, northern...

comix creatrix: where women artists and stories...

From 18th-century caricature to nowadays’s graphic novels,women have always been at the heart of...

i m interested in his murrayness: bill murray...

Artist Brian Griffiths says it was Hollywood star’s attitude that inspired him to create the show...

details of the £35.5m revamp at london s national...

London's National Portrait Gallery has revealed the first images of its proposed new...

spud! brian griffin on potato growing in former...

In 2017,Brian Griffin was invited to undertake an artist’s residency in Béthune-Bruay, northern...

natural selection

Natural Selection is a curated exhibition featuring the work of South African designers who have...

cambridge university library dusts off darwin and...

Pages of books scribbled on by now well-known owners are among scarce items in 600th anniversary...

jeremy deller flies flag for thomas mores utopia,...

Giant smiley marks launch of year-long celebration of radical book,to capture in everything from...

five women star in work in process

Work in Process is a new exhibition at The Print Sales Gallery,championing the work of five female...

sicily: culture and conquest review - gods,...

British Museum,LondonAncient Sicily may have been a land of tyrants, but this exhibition shows that...

farewell, zaha hadid and google goes gaga for deep...

An architectural legend is lost,Bruce Munro lights up Uluru and what Palmyra looks like after its...

jurassic world at melbourne museum tramples line...

Exhibition inspired by Jurassic Park franchise offers plenty of movie magic but limited in the way...

from timbuktu to trinidad: british library...

With a saddlebag Qur’an,a slave-ship manual and Fela Kuti, the new exhibition takes a thrilling...

colour pioneer luigi ghirri s the map and the...

“My aim is not to construct PHOTOGRAPHS,but rather CHARTS and MAPS that might at the same time...

frank gehry s luma arles centre takes shape

Its opening has been pushed back to 2020,but the LUMA Arles complex is taking shape in the French...

a new wave

A novel Wave,a group show of the newest local collectible design talent, which first premiered at...

great fire exhibition to shine light on fate of...

Letters and relics testify to how London’s wealthy rebuilt while the homeless were stranded in...

how subtle presentation enhances art s power

The note of a successful exhibition designer is in the detail you don’t notice,explains David...

a doll s house mystery and cruel binoculars:...

For the first time,the Met’s Black Museum’s grisly collection of evidence in the UK’s most...

q a: void s hunger project

starvation is an experimental project based on Franz Kafka’s short account,A starvation...

works by artist who died in grenfell fire to be...

Khadija Saye,who died with her mother in London tower blaze, was like a young Tracey Emin, or...

secretary skorton on the art of the qur an

Starting tomorrow,our visitors hold a scarce opportunity to see some of the most beautiful and...

anatomy of an artwork

Dissecting the 1955 work Sleep by British conceptual artist John LathamSpray paint only became...

john dee painting originally had circle of human...

Enigmatic Tudor polymath known in his day as ‘the Queen’s conjuror’ is subject of exhibition...

zanele muholi s somnyama ngonyama - hail the dark...

“I’m reclaiming my blackness,which I feel is continuously performed by the privileged other,"...

a monumental qur an

The content of the Qur’an has not changed since the beginning of Islam in the seventh century. By...

cuban forever revisited

A timely and relevant exploration of new acquisitions from Cuba,featuring artists Raul Martinez,...

cocottes, courtesans and sex in the city: paris...

A fresh major exhibition examines artists’ fascination with the rise of prostitution,as the...

rediscovering afghan designs

I opened up the package and gave a yelp. Inside was a small book of approximately one hundred pages...

provocations: the architecture and design of...

The exhibition at the Hammer Museum is fragment of the first North American museum tour of the work...

idangatye

Bold and emblazoned with character,the ceramic work of Madoda Fani carries a dramatically unique...

ancient romans egyptian mummy mask joins display...

Two Temple situation in London hosts exhibition of artefacts from seven regional museums The golden...

heatherwick studio: designing the extraordinary...

In 2012 as portion of a season of events celebrating British design,the V&A presented the first...

welcoming nmaahc with kung fu wildstyle

The opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is such a major...

cocottes and courtesans: paris celebrates artistic...

Musée d’Orsay this week opens ‘Splendours and Miseries’,the first major exhibition looking at...

new british inventors: inside heatherwick studio,...

The exhibition at the National Design Centre is portion of the first Asian museum tour of the work...