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Our European team hand-picked a selection of exhibitions that you can look forward to across the continent this year.

The Hamas attack against Israel on October 7, and the resulting war on Gaza, has exposed deep fault lines throughout the art world.

This should have been a busy holiday period for the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. His exhibition at London’s Lisson Gallery was due to open last month and others were planned in New York, Paris and Berlin. They have all now been cancelled because Ai himself has been cancelled – not by the Chinese Communist party

Too elegant, too tactical, too perfect: such were the characteristics of Anish Kapoor’s hyperreflective sculptures of the unforgettable and exuberant exhibition held at Lisson Gallery in New York some four years ago. With immaculately polished surfaces, those optical devices, whether immense or human in scale, appeared as matchless catalysts for arresting phenomenological inquiries into the parameters of vision and the paradoxes of visual representation.

A recent open letter by Artists for Palestine cited 18 examples of artists allegedly being censored for their expressions of solidarity with Palestinians, or simply for being Palestinian themselves.

Ai Weiwei speaks to Index amid a spike in censorship within the art world right now as a result of the Middle East conflict

Artists are protesting Israel’s offensive. The art and literary worlds are struggling to respond.

Dyani White Hawk’s beaded paintings, Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio's rubber casts, Tidawhitney Lek’s portraits of life in Long Beach's Cambodia Town, and more.

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Outside of the blue-chip art world, some galleries and nonprofits are speaking out freely and publicly against Israel’s attacks.