Companions in Solitude: Reclusion and Communion in Chinese Art
Works from the 11th century to the present day go on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Edinburgh Art Festival
From 20th-century painting surveys to brand-new commissions – a month of arts programming all around the city
Bellotto: The Königstein Views Reunited
A chance to see all five of the Venetian’s dramatic depictions of a fortress outside Dresden – for the first time in more than 250 years
Leiko Ikemura: Usagi in Wonderland
In Norwich, a first solo show in the UK for the contemplative Japanese-Swiss artist with a playful streak
Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes
The MFA Boston presents the artist’s vivid book illustrations and colourful collages
Folkestone Triennial
The celebrated seaside sculpture trail returns to the coastal town in Kent
Humboldt Forum
Open to the public at long last, the reconstructed Berlin Palace provides a grand new home for the city’s collections of non-Western art
Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900
From domestic bliss to secret affairs – the Cleveland Museum of Art explores the home lives of the Parisian avant-garde
Fruitmarket
After a major expansion, the contemporary arts hub in Edinburgh reopens with a Karla Black retrospective
Pre-Raphaelite Artist of Hope: Evelyn De Morgan
De Morgan’s staunch pacifism was reflected in her symbolic paintings and sketches, now on view at Towneley Hall in Burnley
About Women: Female Destinies in the Böhme Collection
The Museum of the Lost Generation in Salzburg explores the lives of women artists whose careers were cut short by the Nazis
Dürer Was Here: A Journey Becomes Legend
A museum in Aachen, where Dürer stopped over in 1520, retraces the artist’s footsteps on that voyage
Paolo Veneziano: Art and Devotion in 14th-Century Venice
Panels from a long-dispersed altarpiece by the trecento painter are reunited at the Getty Center
Making History: Shakespeare and the Royal Family
An online exhibition explores the fascination Shakespeare’s plays have held for generations of British monarchs
Gainsborough Old Hall
One of the best preserved Tudor manors in England reopens after an extensive renovation
Luma Arles
The Swiss contemporary art foundation gets a glistening new home in the south of France, designed by Frank Gehry
Bellum et Artes: Saxony and Central Europe in the Thirty Years War
A display in Dresden explores how artists fared in a turbulent era
Paula Rego
The Portuguese-born painter’s masterfully unsettling canvases go on view in her largest UK survey to date, at Tate Britain
Hôtel de la Marine
The former headquarters of the French navy in Paris opens to the public after a major revamp
Musée Champollion
A new museum in the picturesque family home of the Egyptologist who deciphered the Rosetta Stone
Fire and Vine: The Story of Glass and Wine
A display of vessels for vino, from ancient times to the present, at the Corning Museum of Glass
The Giacometti: A Family of Creators
Alberto was by no means the only talented artist of the clan – as this display at Fondation Maeght proves
The Medici: Portraits & Politics, 1512–1570
The Met explores how the Florentine dynasty used art as a tool to assert their cultural and political power
I Transmit: 100 Years of Joseph Beuys
A Beuys treasure hunt in Munich, courtesy of the Pinakothek der Moderne
Seeing London through Frank Auerbach’s eyes