Self-Portrait (detail; 1623), Peter Paul Rubens.

Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace

The Queen’s Gallery may be closed, but there are a host of ways to explore this blockbuster display online

17 Dec 2020

Frank Duveneck: American Master

At Cincinnati Art Museum, a landmark survey dedicated to the city’s favourite artistic son

17 Dec 2020
Ryan, Respiratory Doctor in Training (detail; 2020), Aliza Nisenbaum

Aliza Nisenbaum

The Mexican-born painter’s portraits of key workers during the Covid-19 crisis go on show at Tate Liverpool

11 Dec 2020
L’étang – Hommage à Grey Owl (detail; 1970), Jean-Paul Riopelle.

Jean-Paul Riopelle: The Call of Northern Landscapes and Indigenous Cultures

A virtual tour of this blockbuster show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, featuring more than 300 artworks and artefacts

11 Dec 2020
Roll-top desk (c. 1770), cabinetwork by Jean-Henri Riesener, model designed by Jean-François Oeben

Jean-Henri Riesener

A five-year research project led by the Wallace Collection concludes with a season of displays and new digital resources

11 Dec 2020
Lamba akotifahana (detail; mid–late 19th century), Malagasy peoples, Madagascar.

Moth to Cloth: Silk in Africa

Exploring the history of sericulture in sub-Saharan Africa at the Dallas Museum of Art

11 Dec 2020
Jane Birkin’s Birkin (1984), designed by Hermès.

Bags: Inside Out

Bags are used for much more than simply carrying our stuff – as this blockbuster show at the V&A proves

4 Dec 2020
Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, photographed in gigapixel resolution.

Virtual Mauritshuis

The museum in The Hague is the first in the world to be fully digitised in gigapixel resolution

4 Dec 2020
Maquette for We Are Building (detail; 1929), Valentina Kulagina.

Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented

A display at MoMA explores how the role of the artist was reinvented amid the tumult of the 1920s and ’30s

4 Dec 2020
APEX (detail of video still; 2013), Arthur Jafa.

Arthur Jafa

The American artist’s excoriating takes on celebrity and race go on display at Louisiana in Denmark

4 Dec 2020
(detail; 2020), Rosalind Nashashibi.

Rosalind Nashashibi: An Overflow of Passion and Sentiment

The National Gallery’s first artist in residence presents works responding to the museum’s Spanish Golden Age paintings

27 Nov 2020
It - didnt stop - I didnt stop (detail; 2019), Tracey Emin.

Tracey Emin/Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul

Themes of loss and longing unite the Norwegian painter and the erstwhile YBA in this show at the Royal Academy

27 Nov 2020
(detail; 2016), Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night

Tate Britain hosts the first UK museum survey of the London-born artist’s jewel-hued paintings

27 Nov 2020
Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different? (1992), Richard Hamilton.

Richard Hamilton: Respective

This exhibition at Pallant House considers the influence of international modernism upon the British Pop artist

27 Nov 2020
From the series ‘Natreen’ (2013), Leila Alaoui.

Leila Alaoui: Rites of Passage – virtual tour

Ekow Eshun shows us around the late French-Moroccan photographer’s shuttered exhibition at Somerset House

20 Nov 2020
Untitled (2019), Lisa Brice

Lisa Brice

The Cape Town-born painter’s electric portraits of women get their first museum outing in the Netherlands at GEM

20 Nov 2020

The Botanical Album of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues

Leaf through these exquisite 16th-century watercolours online, courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum

20 Nov 2020
Old Arguments on Indigenism (detail; 1989), Nalini Malani.

South Asian Art

Two new galleries at the Peabody Essex Museum survey the history of art on the subcontinent

20 Nov 2020
Matthew Burrows, who launched the Artist Support Pledge initiative in March 2020

Personality of the Year

Matthew Burrows

19 Nov 2020
Installation view, Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Ibeju-Lekki

Museum Opening of the Year

Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Ibeju-Lekki

19 Nov 2020
Toyin Ojih Odutola, photographed in 2019

Artist of the Year

Toyin Ojih Odutola

19 Nov 2020

Book of the Year

‘Bilderatlas Mnemosyne – The Original’ by Aby Warburg; Axel Heil and Roberto Ohrt (eds.)

19 Nov 2020
Installation view showing St John the Baptist and the Evangelist from the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) by Jan and Hubert van Eyck, MSK Ghent, 2020.

Exhibition of the Year

‘Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution’ at the MSK Ghent

19 Nov 2020
A Life Study: A Monk Sleeping against a Pile of Books

Digital Innovation of the Year

The Morgan, Connected

19 Nov 2020