The Japanese painter works to the sounds of birds chirping and receives regular visits from figures from the past
The Whitney puts on the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date
The Queen’s Gallery in London puts on a courtly fashion show
The photographer documented Jewish communities throughout Eastern Europe from the late 1920s to the start of Second World War
The Tate considers how both artists used abstract painting as a means of understanding the natural (and supernatural) world
More than 250 works at the Met testify to millennia-old concerns about death and the afterlife
The Kunsthaus Zürich explores the two artists’ fleeting but formative friendship
The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena lends new meaning to the trope of the ‘starving artist’
The Petit Palais pays homage to France’s most famous thespian
A rare 17th-century gold ruby glass goblet and original designs by Augustus Pugin are among this month’s highlights
