Porcelains in the Mist: The Kondo Family of Ceramicists
The Brooklyn Museum explores how this illustrious family has produced both traditional and also more innovative wares
Miron Schmückle: Flesh for Fantasy
The Romanian-German artist’s drawings, on display at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, fuse art, fantasy and botany
Christmas Tree Installation 2023: Power Plant
The V&A’s annual festive commission is a four-metre-tall kinetic sculpture by design duo Isabel + Helen
The Neapolitan Crèche
A spectacular baroque nativity scene featuring some 200 figures is now on show at the Art Institute of Chicago
Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
A presepio scene by the sculptor Giuseppe Sanmartino is paired with a 20-foot-tree at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Christmas at the Jägerhof
The Museum of Saxon Folk Art in Dresden is exploring regional festive traditions – not least the elaborate shadow plays from the town of Sebnitz
Acquisitions of the Month: November 2023
A terracotta relief by Donatello and a vanishingly rare set of 16th-century silverware are among this month’s highlights
Women Dressing Women: A Lineage of Female Fashion Design
This exhibition drawn from the holdings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art features pieces by more than 70 female makers and designers
Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed
The National Gallery in London presents the first major exhibition to be dedicated to the often-overlooked artist
Perfectly Imperfect: Korean Buncheong Ceramics
This exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, co-organised with the National Museum of Korea, presents 40 works dating from the 15th century to the present day
Glitch. The Art of Interference
This exhibition at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich explores the notion of the glitch in the 20th and 21st centuries
Ethiopia at the Crossroads
This show at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore spans 1,750 years of Ethiopia’s rich cultural and artistic history
Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses
The Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris explores the Dutch designer’s pioneering practice
Karlo Kacharava: Sentimental Traveller
S.M.A.K. in Ghent presents the first institutional solo show outside of his native Georgia to be dedicated to the poet, critic and artist
The Printmaker’s Art: Rembrandt to Rego
The National (Royal Scottish Academy) in Edinburgh tells the story of printmaking from the 15th century to the present day
Exhibition of the Year
‘In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s’ at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Andrew Cranston: What made you stop here?
The Scottish painter’s first exhibition in a public gallery brings together 38 new and recent works
The Irreplaceable Human
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art considers the role of the artist in the age of artificial intelligence
Martha Stewart’s recipe for success