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Spanning over 60 years of contemporary sculpture, this exhibition highlights ways in which artists draw on familiar experiences of movement, flux and organic growth.

'Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change' brings together over 100 major contemporary and historic works as part of a conversation about art and its role in shaping narratives of empire, enslavement, resistance, abolition and colonialism – and how it may help set a course for the future.

'Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950 - 1970' is a major new exhibition which connects the work of over 50 women from across the globe through a shared language of radical abstraction.

'Murmuration' explores avian symbolism in art and traces its historical significance. The exhibition platforms the pivotal role birds play as indicators to the health of the environment, reflecting the urgent climate crisis. It establishes birds as messengers, and as metaphors for ideas of home and belonging. 

The exhibition 'Place to be: the Burle Marx legacy' proposes new readings on the documentary collection of the work of Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) and his collaborators, in the office where more than 2 thousand landscape projects were designed between the 1930s and 1990s.

'A Superlative Palette' brings together the work of twelve contemporary Black women artists from around the world.

'In Brillaint Light' showcases contemporary works by African artists alongside masteprieces from the museum's collection.

'Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New Age’ presents some of Friedrich's most important paintings and drawings in dialogue with a selection of contemporary works, 250 years after Friedrich's birth.

'Come Home' is a selection of prints of works by contemporary artists made in aid of the Carnival Village Trust.

Deborah Roberts will be in conversation with Sarah Elizabeth Lewis to mark the publication of her monograph, 'Twenty Years of Art/Work'. 

Previously exhibited at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 'Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence' is on show at de Young, San Francisco. For this new body of work, Wiley sheds light on the brutalities of American and global colonial pasts using the language of the fallen hero.

To celebrate Museum Jumex's 10 year anniversary, the museum has invited Lisa Phillips, the Director of the New Museum in New York, to curate an exhibition from the collection occupying the entire building. 

Curated by curator Freya Chou, writer and editor Brian Kuan Wood, and curator Reem Shadid, this year’s iteration of Taipei Biennial will bring together over 50 international and local artists and musicians, transforming the museum into a space of listening, gathering, improvising, and exploring alternative ways to perceive and apply what we learned from the recent pandemic.

The artist, Caroline Coon, was part of the early Punk scene and the author of one of the first books on Punk, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion' (1977). Her photographs are an important, intimate record of its heady early days.

Hulda Guzmán's 'The Haircut' is on view at the Artspace Project Wall. Initiated by Kansas City Art Institute, the Project Wall is an ongoing site for temporary public art projects by contemporary artists.

Clare Woods was commissioned by the Contemporary Art Society to create a ceramic mural for the Olympic Park, London, in 2012.

Over the dark winter nights, the Southbank Centre site is illuminated by outdoor artworks that play with light and colour. Each featured artist uses light and colour in playful ways whilst exploring ideas of individual and collective identity, the environment and technology.

In this exhibition, Stephan Balkenhol presents sculptures of selected figures from the Old Masters collection of Museum Wiesbaden.

On Saturday November 4 from 4–6pm, a book signing and In Conversation with Deborah Roberts will take place at Stephen Friedman Gallery, New York. This coincides with her solo exhibition 'What about us?', which inaugurates the new gallery, 3 November – 22 December 2023.