The Frist Art Museum explores how the Italian city blossomed during the Middle Ages

The English merchant Edward Solly’s prodigious collecting formed the basis of Berlin’s great picture gallery

This exhibition at Tate Britain compares the English painter to his continental contemporaries

The Louisiana pays tribute to a modernist artist who died young, but had a lasting influence on Danish painting

The Louvre presents a spectacular collection of costume designs for entertainments at the French court

The French painter’s collection of masterpieces by his friends and idols has been reassembled by the Musée d’Orsay

The Royal Academy explores how the painter’s style became looser and more expressive in the last 12 years of his life

In Cornwall, the artist’s first UK solo show revisits the drawings he created as a teenager after being displaced by the Kosovo War

Works by more than 100 artists at the Guggenheim Bilbao offer an expanded version of the story of abstract art

This transatlantic survey of the Surrealist’s work begins in Bern – the city where she spent her last 30 years

Gio Ponti’s fortress-like building reopens after renovations, with more room for the museum’s encyclopaedic collections

A survey of the artist’s work at Kettle’s Yard, from anti-racist activism of the 1980s to more recent meditations on community

The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm explores how Scandinavian craft aesthetics crossed over to the States

The artist’s late depictions of olive trees – on show at the Dallas Museum of Art – are among his most impassioned paintings

The movement founded in Paris in 1924 quickly spread across the globe – as this show at the Met Fifth Avenue demonstrates

The artist’s absurdly comic send-ups of global capitalism are on view at Louisiana in Denmark

An exhibition in Vienna explores how Titian and his peers portrayed womanhood in 16th-century Venice

The Louvre explores French interest in ancient Greece and the emergence of the modern Greek nation

The Prado shines a light on the artworks that Spanish explorers took back with them from the New World

The Japanese master’s ambitious – and abandoned – project to depict all the known universe has its first outing at the British Museum

The photographer’s early experiments with cartes postales are on view at the Art Institute of Chicago

The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge hosts a dazzling display of ancient treasures, recently unearthed in Kazakhstan

The Musée d’Orsay puts on a show exploring how early cinema was born of the 19th-century passion for spectacle