The newly announced cultural institution collaborations include a new project by Ono, inspired by PEACE is POWER, a permanent installation at MoMA that the museum commissioned for its 2019 expansion. The MoMA installation covers the walls and ceiling of a long corridor gallery on the third floor of the museum with a sky blue gradient and messages reading “Imagine Peace,” “Spread Peace,” “Act Piece,” and “Think Peace” in white capital letters. On the opposite wall, the work’s title is engraved on the windows in 24 languages.

Neshat’s art transcends borders. It resonates emotionally and intellectually with viewers regardless of religion, gender or ethnicity. Her work has been featured in a retrospective at The Broad in Los Angeles, and has earned numerous accolades, including the International Prize at the Venice Biennale and the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival for her political drama Women Without Men (2009). This month, she adds yet another title to her list of accomplishments – creative director of Aida for the Paris Opera – a role that promises to merge her distinct visual world with the grandeur and history of one of Europe’s most storied cultural institutions.

Although focused on politics, colonialism and the unreliability of historical narrative, particularly in relation to his native country, Kentridge's art is never heavy-handed or sloganeering: instead, it approaches these weighty subjects in "unexpected, culturally curious ways". His distinctive "fluidity" and playfulness are present and correct at this new exhibition, which foregrounds his less-well-known work as a sculptor. Bringing together more than 40 sculptures and films created between 2007 and the present, it takes place both indoors and outside, with "bold, sculptural works", some monumental in scale, spread out across the "lush acres" of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in a celebration of "form and scale".

Teshima, Kagawa Pref. – Step off the ferry at Teshima’s Ieura port, 25 minutes from the nearest mainland city of Tamano, Okayama Prefecture, and life goes quiet. The odd car passes by; occasionally, a town bus. On the far side of the island, tucked away in a dilapidated house southeast of the port and southwest of the island’s titular art museum, Chiharu Shiota’s “Memory of Lines” waits for visitors.

"Yoko Ono: Dream together at Neue Nationalgalerie is an exhibition featuring works from across Ono’s groundbreaking career. The exhibition invites viewers to move beyond passive observation and engage in active participation – both physically and mentally. Often beginning on an individual level, these actions evolve into broader collective efforts, demonstrating the transformative power of communal actions in working toward peace and imagining a different world."

Nicholas Serota, the former director of Tate, will co-curate a vast retrospective of works by the influential German artist Gerhard Richter this autumn at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (17 October - 2 March 2026).

“[The Fondation] is honouring the artist with an exceptional retrospective, unmatched both in scale and in chronological scope, featuring 270 works stretching from 1962 to 2024,” says a statement. Works in a variety of media, from paintings to pencil and ink drawings, watercolours, and overpainted photographs, will go on show.

Kentridge’s explorations of the human self can result in multiple insights, and contradictions. Often in his video series multiple Kentridges or doppelgängers argue and disagree on ideas, methods and even memories. (These videos are influenced by his engagement with the world of theater, and at the Hauser & Wirth show they are displayed in a corner of the gallery emulating his studio.) Because the artist draws mostly with charcoal, the notions of erasure, overwriting and haziness in the paintings are heightened, making it plausible to debate and even dispute everything.

The wars and migrant crises currently roiling the world have given renewed poignancy to Ship of Tolerance (2005-present), an international art project to unite children created two decades ago by the late conceptualist artist Ilya Kabakov (who died in 2023) and his wife and creative partner Emilia Kabakov, who has carried on their work.