The Weltmuseum Wien makes its contribution to the International Year of the Camel with an exhibition that celebrates the mammalian family in its all forms
Medieval Christianity went all out for blood and what it represented. The Getty Center presents some macabre objects of devotion and some modern responses in kind
The Met presents art by figures from the African American-led movement and puts it at the heart of 20th-century modernism
The Maison Européenne de la photographie finds the writer looking outwards and pairs her observations with images from its own collection
The Bozar shows that Belgian Surrealists were not just following in the footsteps of their French contemporaries
The artist is the first to tackle a daunting question posed by the Sainsbury Centre in a series four of exhibitions: What is truth?
The artist’s centenary exhibition moves to Madrid and demonstrates that his Surreal and cerebral works are as modern as ever
The Dutch design duo known for combining high fashion with pure absurdity are the subject of a full-scale survey in Munich
The Dutch portraitist’s vivaciousness is in evidence at the Rijksmuseum’s exhibition of 50 of his greatest works
Seven of the artist’s portraits hang alongside works by his friends, collaborators, pupils and lesser-known Dutch contemporaries
The artist’s radicalism is being celebrated at Tate Modern, in a show that spans 70 years of art-making
German Expressionism and its influences on recent artists are in focus at the National Gallery of Art in Washington
The Courtauld Gallery is exhibiting a series of large-scale charcoal heads, drawn when Auerbach was in London in the 1950s and ‘60s
Pictures made using computer software designed by the late American artist go on display at the Whitney
The Mauritshuis is displaying work by the Dutch Golden Age painter – the first to depict the dodo and the earliest known Dutch artist to produce a floral still life
The Musée du Quai Branly is displaying an immersive installation that honours the Punu mourners of Gabon
In the Hungarian artist’s first exhibition in the United States, the Art Institute of Chicago presents works of cameraless photography and a geometric sculpture
Intricate automata made for Chinese emperors are travelling from the Palace Museum in Beijing to the Science Museum in London
The Met explores the long and productive relationship between painting, calligraphy and poetry through 90 works from its own collection
Paintings commissioned for the gallerist’s apartment in Paris have been reunited for the first time in nearly a century
Modern Two in Edinburgh is celebrating the centenary of the birth of the Scottish Pop art icon
To kick off its centenary celebrations, the Morgan Library & Museum in New York is putting on a show of as-yet-unseen photographs from its collection
The Expressionist’s visions of wartime cruelty and portraits of Weimar-era figures go on show in The Hague
A survey at the Swiss museum shows how the Canadian photographer has played an outsize role in reshaping his chosen medium
