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CURATED CALENDAR · 20 AUGUST—30 SEPTEMBER 2026
The exhibitions not to miss
Italy and Europe · dates verified with official institutions · updated 20 August 202601
VENICE · Until 22 November
↗02Biennale Arte 2026 · In Minor Keys
The season’s essential exhibition. Giardini and Arsenale need at least a full day; the Arsenale has extended Friday and Saturday hours until 27 September.
FLORENCE · Final days · until 23 August
↗03Rothko in Florence
A major exhibition devoted to the American master and conceived for Palazzo Strozzi. Book immediately: only a few days remain.
MILAN · Until 9 November
↗04Mona Hatoum · Over, under and in between
Three site-specific installations in Fondazione Prada’s Cisterna turn web, map and grid into images of danger, fragility and instability.
MILAN · Until 28 September
↗05Cao Fei · DASH
Photography, video, virtual reality and archives examine technological agriculture and its contradictions in a genuinely contemporary project.
ROME · Until 20 September
↗06Creature, Creatori · St Francis and contemporary art
MAXXI rereads post-war Italian art through the ethical vision and understanding of nature expressed in the Canticle of the Creatures.
ROME · From 15 September
↗07Kandinsky
At Palazzo Bonaparte, works from the Centre Pompidou collection form a major new appointment. Early booking is advisable.
FLORENCE · From 25 September
↗08Broken · The Power of the Fragment
Palazzo Strozzi moves from archaeology to contemporary art to explore how fragments continue to generate memory and meaning.
BILBAO · Final opportunity · until 13 September
↗09Ruth Asawa · Retrospective
Ten sections span six decades, offering the fullest account of Asawa’s sculpture, drawing and educational commitment.
PARIS · Final days · until 30 August
↗10Hilma af Klint
At the Grand Palais, studies in colour and the spiritual dimension of abstraction. See it now before it closes.
PARIS · From 23 September
↗11Cézanne and Us
Seventy works by Cézanne meet works by some eighty artists, from Gauguin to Tillmans, tracing his influence on modern art.
LONDON · Now at Tate Modern
↗12Frida · The Making of an Icon
More than biography: the exhibition examines how Frida Kahlo became a global cultural image through art, identity and appropriation.
BILBAO · Until 12 October
↗Jasper Johns · Night Driver
A chance to reassess Johns’s later work and the persistence of his signs through memory, repetition and transformation.
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