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Today marks the completion of the transformation of Tate St Ives, following a four-year building project that has doubled the space for showing art, adding almost 600 square metres of galleries and creating spectacular new studios for learning activities.

For the first time, Tate St Ives is now able to give a permanent presence to those iconic 20th century artists who lived and worked in the town, demonstrating the role of St Ives in the story of modern art.

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Produced in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris, this exhibition focuses on one of Peggy Guggenheim's favorite works of art, depicting a major outdoor theme of Picasso's œuvre: the beach.

The exhibition gathers an exceptional selection of ten drawings, three paintings and a sculpture, made by Picasso between February and December 1937. Its focal point is his On the Beach (La Baignade), which for the first time will be displayed next to its preparatory sketch, executed on the same day and now housed in the Musée national Picasso-Paris.

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As part of its ongoing program to offer reinterpretations of seminal moments in contemporary art history, the Milan venue of Fondazione Prada presents this research and information project on the fascinating art scene that developed in Chicago in the aftermath of World War II.

The project focuses on the use of a painting style characterized by political commitment, figurative narratives and radical graphics - an approach rejected at that time by mainstream New York School, but which anticipated the new tendencies of the 80's and 90's, from Graffiti to Street Art, from wild cartoons to urban murals.

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The Milan venue of the Fondazione Prada hosts a project by the Austrian collective Gelitin in the third instalment of "Slight Agitation", a four-part series of newly commissioned, site-specific works presented in the Cisterna.

Following Tobias Putrih's installation which engaged with ideas of play, politics and emancipation and Pamela Rosenkranz's intervention that offered visitors a multi-sensory immersion into a new perception of embodiment and collectivity, Gelitin's project titled POKALYPSEA-APOKALYPSE-OKALYPSEAP includes three large sculptures that explicitly address classical architectural archetypes (the triumphal arch, the obelisk and the amphitheater), subverting their rhetoric and monumental components.

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Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892–1897 is the first museum exhibition on this seminal and revelatory—yet frequently overlooked—series of Salons held annually in Paris from 1892 to 1897.

Following extensive research to identify artworks shown in the original exhibitions, Mystical Symbolism encompasses painting, works on paper, and sculpture by artists such as Antoine Bourdelle, Rogelio de Egusquiza, Jean Delville, Charles Filiger, Fernand Khnopff, Charles Maurin, Alphonse Osbert, Armand Point, Georges Rouault, Carlos Schwabe, Alexandre Séon, Jan Toorop, Ville Vallgren, and Félix Vallotton.

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The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) is proud to host this major new exhibition by pioneering Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist - presented exclusively in Sydney as part of the Sydney International Art Series.

Occupying the entire third floor of the Museum and curated by MCA Senior Curator Natasha Bullock, the exhibition presents the spectrum of Rist's ground-breaking practice, from her early single-channel videos of the 1980s to her large-scale audio-visual installations and recent immersive environments.

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With a selection of 100 major works by Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, James Tissot and others, this is the first large-scale exhibition to chart the stories of the French artists who sought refuge in Britain during the turbulent period beginning with the Franco-Prussian war in 1870.

The conflict sparked a wave of emigration of French artists across the English Channel. This exhibition explores the influence of London and British society on the work of these artists across a broad range of innovative themes, including the role of this microcosm of exiles in fostering encounters and support, the impact of French artists on artistic education in Britain, and the prevalence in their paintings of subjects related to the British capital.

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Marking the centenary of the remarkable bequest of John Graver Johnson to the city of Philadelphia, Old Masters Now focuses on one of the finest private collections of European art ever assembled in the United States.

This major exhibition includes masterpieces by key figures of the Renaissance such as Botticelli, Bosch, and Titian; important seventeenth-century Dutch paintings by Rembrandt, Jan Steen, and others; and works by American and French masters of Johnson's own time, most notably Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and Édouard Manet and Claude Monet.

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Continuing its research on the topic of collecting, the Pinacoteca Agnelli presents an ideal collection including works by Tony Oursler (b. New York, 1957), the "father of video sculpture," and a selection of objects belonging to his large collection of occult-related materials. These are juxtaposed with works by painter and psychic Gustavo Rol (b. Turin, 1903-1994) from Turin's city collections.

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Coinciding with the Paris Photo fair, Sotheby's will host two exceptional photography auctions in Paris.

The first auction will be devoted to a major European collection, with around 100 lots including several remarkable prints by famous fashion photographer Irving Penn. The collection also includes iconic works by some of the leading photographers of their times, such as Horst P Horst, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton and Araki. Also worth noting is a splendid selection of American photographs, with works by Ansel Adams, Walker Evans, Robert Frank and William Eggleston.

The second sale, now a yearly event in Paris every autumn, provides a rich overview of photography from the 19th century to the present day. Key pieces include one of the earliest views of Notre-Dame de Paris, some magnificent shots by Gustave Le Gray, and a large selection of contemporary photographs by Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Robert Mapplethorpe.

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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents David Hockney: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life, an exhibition which brings together a unique collection—at once surprising, joyful, and touching—of works by the great British painter.

With this impressive series, David Hockney brings to light his private universe—his family, his friends and their children—in the creation of a remarkable portrait gallery featuring those who have crossed his path over the course of years and in the vast panorama of the Los Angeles art scene. 

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Louvre Abu Dhabi will open its doors to the public on 11 November 2017. It is the first museum of its kind in the Arab world: a universal museum focusing on shared human stories across civilizations and cultures.

Located in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Pritzker Prize-winning French architect Jean Nouvel has designed a museum city (Arab medina) under a vast silvery dome comprised of almost 8,000 unique metal stars.

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Sotheby's is honored to announce the sale of the prestigious collections of Eleanor Post Close and her son, Antal Post de Bekessy. 650 lots of furniture, 18th and 19th-century sculpture and works of art, as well as paintings, drawings, watches and wine, will be offered in a series of five dedicated auctions between Paris and London.

The collections up for auction encompass works by a broad range of artists from across the centuries, including works of Clodion, Nicolas de Largillière, Odilon Redon, Auguste Rodin, Gustav Klimt and Zao Wou-Ki.

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In an unprecedented collaboration, three major London galleries - the National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, and National Gallery - will open three distinct exhibitions of work by artist Tacita Dean (b.1965).

The three exhibitions, shaped by Dean's response to the individual character of each institution, will explore genres traditionally associated with painting seen through the contemporary prism of Dean's wide-ranging artistic practice. 

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