Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy
A major survey for the trailblazing British Surrealist spanning her seven-decade career, at the Whitechapel Gallery
Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint
This display at the British Museum will explore the turbulent life – and grisly death – of the 12th-century priest
Rachel Maclean: Mimi
The Scottish artist has built a derelict toyshop, home to a cartoon princess, in the woods of Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh
Joan Eardley & Catterline
A display in Edinburgh of the painter’s stirring seascapes marks the centenary of her birth
New Grit: Art & Philly Now
An exhibition of contemporary art inaugurates new gallery spaces – part of a $233m revamp – at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne: Nature Transformed
From cabbages with chicken feet to a rhino-shaped desk – a survey of Les Lalanne at the Clark Art Institute
Olafur Eliasson: Life
The superstar artist has flooded the Fondation Beyeler with fluorescent pond water – a statement on climate change, apparently
8bit
The Royal Opera House hosts an online festival of new works that experiment with digital technology
Mother!
This wide-ranging survey explores images of motherhood across time – at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
The Roaring Twenties
The Guggenheim Bilbao explores how avant-garde across Europe flourished during ‘les années folles’
Kusama: Cosmic Nature
New York Botanical Gardens is the perfect setting for an exhibition exploring the artist’s lifelong fascination with nature
Hepworth Wakefield Spring Flower Festival
The museum in West Yorkshire is hosting a series of online talks about horticulture while its gardens burst into life
Gardens at Waddesdon Manor
The Rothschilds’ elaborate formal gardens are in full bloom this spring – and dotted with sculptures, too
Bring Into Being
A contemporary art show takes over the neo-Palladian villa and grounds of Chiswick House and Gardens
Dreams of Freedom: Romanticism in Russia and Germany
The Tretyakov Gallery hosts the first exhibition to compare how Romanticism took root in Russia and Germany
Georgia O’Keeffe
The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid hosts a survey spanning the American artist’s long and fruitful career
Rare and Wondrous: Birds in Art and Culture 1620–1820
The Toledo Museum of Art explores the Enlightenment craze for all things ornithological
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective
This survey at the Gropius Bau invites visitors to explore full reconstructions of the artist’s historic shows
Fleeting – Scents in Colour: virtual see-and-smell tour
What does art smell like? The Mauritshuis’s new fragrance box helps you to sniff out an answer at home
Dawoud Bey: An American Project
A retrospective at the Whitney shows how the photographer has brought marginalised American communities into view
Variations: The Reuse of Models in Paintings by Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi
A display of remixes by Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi at Cleveland Museum of Art
She-oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism
The National Gallery of Victoria shows how artists took to the outback to reimagine the national landscape en plein air
Liverpool Biennial
The first chapter of the contemporary art festival sees outdoor sculptures dotted around the city – plus some digital works online
The Silk Road: A Living History
Snaps from a travel photographer’s journey from London to Beijing are installed outside King’s Cross in London
What happens when an artist wants to be anonymous?