The Kenyan-born artist weaves together myth and history to examine the legacies of colonialism
The Arte Povera pioneer’s sculptural meditations on the natural world are set amid the opulence of the Galleria Borghese in Rome
The Musée Jacquemart-André examines how the Renaissance master’s style was shaped by his encounters with fellow artists
The National Gallery in London looks again at one of the most recognisable works in its collections
The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf brings together provocative text-based works from across the artist’s career
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston makes more room for its vast collection of objects, textiles and paintings
The Musée d’Orsay in Paris shows off its impressive holdings of masterworks by the likes of Millet, Degas and Mary Cassatt
The Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin turns its attention to the women who shaped the art of the Italian Renaissance
Artefacts from the lost ancient civilisations of Sardinia, Cyprus and Crete go on show at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
The Dutch father and son were among the most influential maritime painters of the 17th century
Architects imagine new ways of making public space more accessible in the city
The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna pairs the German artist’s upside-down paintings with Old Masters
The capital of the Shang Dynasty is home to the country’s earliest surviving written records
The artist brings his scrapyard sculpture to the Hayward gallery
Gardens have long been seen as symbols of freedom and paradise, as this display in Stockholm makes clear
The Art Institute of Chicago considers the contradictory impulses that governed the Spanish surrealist during the 1930s
The German artist’s unsettling images examine the uncanny relationship between visual culture and collective memory
Two ornamental sets of vases owned by Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette of France go on show at the Getty Center in Los Angeles
The Whitechapel Gallery brings together 150 paintings by 81 international women artists
The painter’s characterful portraits shine a light on marginalised individuals in 20th-century New York
The Louisiana Museum of Art offers a rare opportunity to see works spanning the entirety of the American artist’s career
A series of rarely exhibited woodblock prints by the late Brazilian artist go on show at the Art Institute of Chicago
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam brings together more than 28 masterpieces in the biggest ever presentation of the painter’s work
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford unearths the mysteries of the Bronze Age civilisation in Crete
