Documentary photographs from apartheid-era South Africa sit alongside pictures inspired by Candomblé traditions in this wide-ranging show in Chicago
Political art, text-based works and flamboyant self-portraits by the German photographer go on show in Düsseldorf
The horrors of the First World War and its troubled aftermath loom large in the Austrian artist’s inventive, disconcerting paintings
The most extensive survey to date of the artist’s career touches on Romanian craft traditions as well as the country’s turbulent history
Nightmarish visions are the order of the day at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge – though there are glimmers of hope, too
The bond between New Yorkers and their pets offers paws for thought at this amiable but ambitious show at the New-York Historical Society
Magnificent clocks and cabinets sit resplendent at this exhibition of the Parisian craftsman’s work in the Royal Palace of Dresden
This ambitious show at the Belvedere offers a chance to get to grips with the Ghanaian artist’s distinctive finger-painting style
The artist’s portraits of socialites in Paris in the 1920s and ’30s are the main draw at the de Young Museum – but she took on other subjects, too
Rubens was the most successful artist of his day, but he wasn’t doing it all on his own, as this exhibition at the Prado makes abundantly clear
The artist turns curator in an exhibition that makes connections between Britain’s imperial past and the contents of the British Museum
The most famous landscape in British art is the centre of attention in a display to mark the National Gallery’s bicentenary
In Houston, the artist lets chance guide her hand in a series of drawings on paper and found materials, accompanied by several earlier works and a set of 16mm films
Works by Rembrandt and his student Samuel van Hoogstraten are hung alongside each other in Vienna to demonstrate their similarities and differences
The Italian artist’s bold experiments with geometric shapes are the subject of a comprehensive survey at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s striking scene is the centrepiece of this show at the Minneapolis Institute of Art about Paris nightlife in the 19th century
What was on the mind of Indian artists between the Emergency declared by Indira Gandhi in 1975 and the secret nuclear tests of 1998? The Barbican presents some clues
The Getty shows that European rulers wanting to start a war or send an embassy had the movements of the sun, moon and the stars to reckon with as well
MoMA’s retrospective of the German artist best known for his grotesque sculptures takes us into more unfamiliar territory
Tate Modern celebrates the full scope of the career of an artist who took a childlike view of creativity
The dance pioneer’s life, work and influences are a revelation at the Whitney Museum of American art this autumn
Four millennia of craftsmanship are celebrated in this show at the Rijksmuseum, which brings together 75 impressive objects – many of which are making their European debut
More than 300 objects from the first millennium AD demonstrate the importance of cultural and material exchange across Asia, Africa and Europe
There are no fairy-tale endings in the powerful narrative paintings and sculptures on show at the Kunstmuseum Basel
