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
Tate Modern celebrates the brief but influential life and work of the Australian-born performance artist, musician, fashion icon and muse
Later Chinese bronzes were much more than pale imitations of ancient works, as this exhibition at the Met shows
Macabre works by modernist masters hang alongside those by Cranach, Holbein and others in Oslo
The artist’s crisp depictions of male labourers, soldiers and boatsmen are in the spotlight at the Getty
The Smithsonian’s acquisition in 2023 of a collection of quilts by Black makers forms the backbone of this show
Fleshy forms, unconventional materials and religious imagery come together in the work of the Belgian artist
Boucher’s recently restored rococo masterpiece is in the spotlight at the Alte Pinakothek
The Musée Picasso celebrates Kandinsky, Kirchner and the many other artists condemned by the Nazis
