A survey of the artist’s work at Kettle’s Yard, from anti-racist activism of the 1980s to more recent meditations on community
The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm explores how Scandinavian craft aesthetics crossed over to the States
The artist’s late depictions of olive trees – on show at the Dallas Museum of Art – are among his most impassioned paintings
The movement founded in Paris in 1924 quickly spread across the globe – as this show at the Met Fifth Avenue demonstrates
The artist’s absurdly comic send-ups of global capitalism are on view at Louisiana in Denmark
An exhibition in Vienna explores how Titian and his peers portrayed womanhood in 16th-century Venice
The Louvre explores French interest in ancient Greece and the emergence of the modern Greek nation
The Prado shines a light on the artworks that Spanish explorers took back with them from the New World
The Japanese master’s ambitious – and abandoned – project to depict all the known universe has its first outing at the British Museum
The photographer’s early experiments with cartes postales are on view at the Art Institute of Chicago
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge hosts a dazzling display of ancient treasures, recently unearthed in Kazakhstan
The Musée d’Orsay puts on a show exploring how early cinema was born of the 19th-century passion for spectacle
The Holburne Museum shines a light on the Pre-Raphaelite painter’s recurring cast of friends and lovers
The Wallace Collection’s Laughing Cavalier is joined by a group of the painter’s other masterpieces in the genre
From Mary Cassatt to Marlene Dumas – a survey of portraits by modern women artists at the Fondation Beyeler
More than 60 works by Picasso’s chief artistic accomplice go on view in Düsseldorf
From Russia with love – the Kremlin Museums in Moscow pay tribute to cultural ties with France over the last millennium
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem holds the world’s largest collection of artefacts relating to the infamous trials of 1692–93
Yorkshire Sculpture Park hosts the first solo museum outing in the UK for the artist’s monumental stack sculptures
The Meadows Museum teams up with a museum of historic dress to explore the role of fashion in Spanish art
The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris explores how the painter took Renaissance Florence by storm
Works on paper by Poussin, Rembrandt and other Old Masters go on display at the Lightbox
A painted-over image of Cupid was found hidden in one of Vermeer’s greatest works. Now the restored canvas goes back on view in Dresden
At the Hayward Gallery, 31 painters working in the UK today show off a range of approaches to the medium