The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York explores the artistic achievements of Africa in the Middle Ages through some 200 objects
The Palace of Versailles displays its impressive collection of paintings by the French painter
The Brooklyn Museum examines the medium’s relationship to subcultures and avant-garde practices
The German artist enjoyed a privileged position as the King’s Painter to Henry VIII
This show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis captures the inventiveness of Eastern European artists during the Cold War
This exhibition at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge delves into the work produced by the Chinese artist and the artistic communities that gathered around him
Paintings by the Italian artists are reunited at the Frick Madison in New York for the first time since their separation four centuries ago
The last in a trilogy of shows at the Petit Palais on the history of art made in Paris turns its attention to the first decades of the 20th century
This long-awaited exhibition takes a close look at portraits of five sitters David Hockney has returned to throughout his 60-year career.
As the Québécoise artist turns 100, this exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Art celebrates her influence on Canadian modern art and dance
Through her intimate portraits of migrant labourers, cotton pickers and farmers, Dorothea Lange captured the realities of Depression-era America
Some 130 works by artists including Hans Holbein, Albrecht Dürer and Hans Burgkmair tell the story of the Northern Renaissance in Augsburg and further afield
The British Library goes on a journey through many centuries of imagined lands
The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid brings together pioneering female artists
How the Neo-Romantic painter found freedom away from British shores
How the Italian city became a site of stylistic innovation
The Courtauld takes a tour of the famously serene city through artworks from its collection
The Met museum shows how summer spent in a fishing village in France changed the course of French painting
Illuminated medieval manuscripts, relics and paintings tell the history of the cathedral through to its renovation in the 19th century
The Leopold Museum in Vienna examines the life and work of the great German Expressionist who was at the heart of the European avant-garde
The French-American painter takes a humorous approach to tackling socio-political issues
Portraits by the painter are paired with original garments worn by his sitters
From early experiments in Minimalism to recent activism – the New Museum presents a wide-ranging survey of the artist’s work
The Museo Nacional del Prado examines representations of and attitudes towards the country’s Jewish population in the Middle Ages
