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
Retracing the movements of Nazi-looted artworks at the Jewish Museum in New York
The Met Cloisters explores how artists in medieval Spain navigated the influences of both Christianity and Islam
The National Gallery of Ireland hosts a career-spanning survey to mark the 150th anniversary of the painter’s birth
The father figure to the Impressionists gets his own moment in the limelight with this survey at the Kunstmuseum Basel
One of the largest floor-based sculptures in existence returns to the space it was originally designed for, at the Kunsthaus Zürich
From early abstractions to recent activism – the De Young presents a wide-ranging survey of the artist’s life and work
At the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Swiss premiere of a work that celebrates the glory of 35mm film
The Scottish artist’s first solo museum show features some 20 of her candid depictions of women at home and at work
