The Rijksmuseum shines a light on the heady years of the Indonesian revolution in the 1940s
New galleries at the Art Institute of Chicago span more than 3,000 years of art in Egypt
The Morgan hosts this wide-ranging survey of the German Renaissance Master
The National Museum of Scotland looks at the life of this American naturalist who transformed ornithological illustration
This survey in London explores how six artists have reimagined the art of ceramics over the last 70 years
The Met’s survey of the provocative American sculptor who has worked in many genres and mediums
The Indigenous interpreter (and consort) of Hernán Cortés is a highly controversial figure, as this show in Denver makes clear
Fifteen paintings at the Courtauld Gallery shine a light on the artist’s intense self-scrutiny over the course of his short career
The American artist excelled in the fields of jewellery, furniture design and even public sculpture, as this survey at the Nasher proves
The Royal Academy relates the artist‘s obsessive study of animal forms to his distortions of the human figure
Six museums in Paris celebrate the breadth and depth of the fashion designer’s appreciation of French culture
A painting that was once a household name in Britain returns to the National Gallery for the first time in a century
This show in Washington, D.C., explores how the art of falconry took wing from the Arab world to China and Byzantium
The Pompidou celebrates this French photojournalist who once rubbed shoulders with Man Ray and Robert Capa
The Fondation Beyeler follows the painter’s career over six decades, from early abstractions to desert landscapes
A vast new complex dedicated to European music past and present opens in the heart of Budapest
The painter’s spare, gestural abstract works, not much seen outside Italy, go on display at the Estorick Collection in London
The sensational scowls and exaggerated gestures of Japanese kabuki actors were a popular subject for printmakers, as this show in Chicago proves
This show in Basel reveals how the Swiss Expressionist’s late forays into working with wood gave him greater freedom in his final years
To mark the centenary of the publication of ‘Ulysses’, the Huntington explores how novelists have mapped out their fictional worlds
SFMOMA hosts the first museum survey of the San Francisco-born artist, whose work explores the poetry of logical systems
The Hermitage in St Petersburg trains a spotlight on how fashion photography has kept reinventing itself since the 1930s
The Lightbox celebrates the pioneering Op artist’s 90th birthday with this wide-ranging retrospective
A major survey at Te Papa in Wellington reveals how the artist’s crisp style transformed painting in New Zealand
