The portraitist gets her first solo show in New York, featuring striking paintings of cowboys, farmers, beauty queens and Michelle Obama
Some 50 sculptures of heads, busts and bodies by the German artist are on display alongside 100 works on paper, revealing fresh insights into his process
A chance to see how the Second World War transformed American attitudes towards art, design and fashion
The National Gallery continues its bicentenary celebrations with two vast, dramatic charcoal-on-paper drawings that are rarely on display
An exhibition in Denmark presents lesser-known modernists alongside the usual 20th-century titans
The largest survey of the Arte Povera artist in the UK encourages us to think differently about the boundary between art and nature
Though most celebrated for his woodcut prints, Albrecht Dürer was also a master engraver, as this free exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum makes clear
A major survey of Asawa’s work in San Francisco covers six-decades and reminds us that there was more to her work than wire sculptures
In this show marking 250 years since the artist’s birth, the Yale Center for British Art reflects on how the painter balanced realism with expressiveness
One of the most important art museums in South America unveils its brand new building this week, which doubles its exhibition space
The 19th-century painter’s landscapes captured the beauty of the Valley of Mexico as well as the growth of industrial production
The late American artist’s vast abstract canvases, acrylic mosaics and sculptures inspired by Black history go on display at MoMA
Works by Fernand Léger and the artists he influenced form the basis of a riotously colourful show in Luxembourg
The Albertina puts the British artist’s debt to Old Masters and Christian iconography in the spotlight
The American painter’s wit is on display in this retrospective in San Francisco, which includes several copies of works by his favourite artists
In private, the French writer was a skilled draughtsman of Gothic castles and fantastical creatures
Earthenware, gold jewellery, stone carvings and other gems from Korea reign supreme at the Royal Palace in Dresden
Though often thought of as a shy character, Munch painted a wide network of friends and peers, as this show in London attests
Humans have long depicted the sea in wildly different ways, as this show at the Sainsbury Centre makes clear
The Buffalo AKG celebrates a restlessly experimental artist who was at the heart of New York’s avant-garde in the 1970s and ’80s
In Madrid, the Thyssen-Bornemisza goes in search of the painters who inspired Marcel Proust and his magnum opus
The Hepworth Wakefield celebrates the British ceramicist whose pots take cues from jazz to achieve a sense of spontaneity
The Albertina draws on its outstanding collection and calls in some loans to show how the Old Masters made the most of working on tinted paper
As one of Europe’s greatest living painters turns 80, the Stedelijk and Van Gogh museums in Amsterdam split a show of his work between them
