Forty years after the calling of the miner’s strike, Milton Rogovin’s photographs of Scottish miners shows how much the UK’s industrial landscape has changed
At Fruitmarket Gallery, the artist takes a defunct railway built by the British in Ghana in the 1920s as his starting point
As part of its bicentenary celebrations, the National Gallery in London has sent a painting by Vermeer to Edinburgh to keep another work by the artist company
The Scottish conceptual artist who is not afraid to make fun of the art world has an 80th birthday show at Modern One
The artist’s new film installation at MACBA is inspired by Bizet’s Carmen and themes of performance, death and tragedy
The artist has been at the forefront of activist art in Britain for half a century, as this exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery attests
Ink rubbing, a method of copying the texture of an object’s surface, originated in China as early as 600 BC and is the subject of a new show at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
At the Wadsworth Atheneum, two 16th-century panels showing the miracle of Saint Gregory bring up thorny questions of attribution and conservation
To coincide with the Paris Olympics, the Fitzwilliam looks at the cultural ramifications of when the city last hosted the event
Yorkshire Sculpture Parks presents the works on paper, plasters – and the bronze sculptures for which the artist is best known – that entered its collection in 2020
At the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, five Japanese artists try to bring the human and natural worlds into better harmony
Geography made Scotland a key location during this period of geopolitical tension. National Museums Scotland looks at the relics of this recent past
This travelling Frans Hals exhibition makes its merry way to the Gemäldegalerie, where paintings by the master are placed alongside more recent works
This exhibition at the Pompidou-Metz provides a panoramic yet pinpoint-sharp overview of the history of photography
Some 200 works drawn from more than 70 collections worldwide tell the story of Japan’s evolution into a globally-connected world power during the Meiji era
Women artists in Paris and Frankfurt were integral to the development of European modernism, as an exhibition at the Städel Museum demonstrates
The Palace of Versailles, which is hosting Olympic equestrian events this summer, canters through five centuries of equine art
Surrealism’s most famous exponent had a profound respect for the Old Masters, according to this exhibition at the MFA Boston
More than six decades of fantastic life in plastic, from dream houses to the dolls themselves, go on display at the Design Museum in London
Turner’s depictions of the effects of industrialisation are relevant to the climate crisis today, argues a show at the artist’s house in London
The Mexico-based artist’s ongoing series focusing on children’s games from around the globe goes on show at the Barbican
The Morgan is celebrating its 100th birthday with an exhibition centred around its newly acquired collection of Dutch works on paper
The history of quilt-making is woven through with complex stories, as this exhibition of Canadian fabrics demonstrates
Works by four Impressionist women go on display in Dublin to celebrate 150 years since the movement was born
