In Barcelona, the artist makes clear what won her the Joan Miró Prize: colourful abstraction, formal experimentation and a keen appreciation of texture
The Art Institute of Chicago captures the sweep of the photographer’s career, from experiments with Man Ray in Paris to post-war portraits of artists via her years in Cairo
Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge celebrates the art of the floral still life, from Édouard Vuillard to Louise Bourgeois to Hurvin Anderson
Ten beguiling French and German sculptures at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich present nature bronze in tooth and claw
The Kunstmuseum Basel unveils dozens of prints donated by the artist’s foundation, many of which are on public view for the first time
The Finnish modernist drew early comparisons to Schjerfbeck and Munch before carving out a melancholy style of her own
The Holburne Museum presents a different side of artists best known for revolutionising painting
In New York, the Met explores how Westerners understood, simplified and represented life east of Europe from the late 18th century to the turn of the 20th
The Old Master’s native town in Veneto is marking the 450th anniversary of his death with an exhibition that explores his relationship with the local landscape
At Charleston, etchings, engravings and lithographs from across the avant-garde artist’s career are joined by a painting that counts Virginia Woolf and King Charles III among its admirers
The artist found new methods of capturing the play of light – and also found ways to express his anarchist beliefs in painting, as the Museum Barberini makes clear
The painter is best known as a Fauvist, but his career took many twists and turns, as a survey at Les Franciscaines in Deauville makes clear
The literati of the Middle Ages produced some astounding manuscripts – and the Getty Center is offering a glimpse into how they were made
A survey of the first African American sculptor to win renown at home and abroad comes to the Georgia Museum of Art
This retrospective in Edinburgh includes photos of high-schoolers, sports players, political rallies – and some striking self-portraits
Before the artist embraced the full spectrum of colour, she pushed black and white patterns to their limits, as this display at Dia Beacon shows
The de Young tells a story of state-building and art-making in ancient Egypt over the course of 3,000 years
From the construction of the Empire State Building to Reagan-era America, this survey captures the glamour and the hardship of life in the United States
Contemporary colour comes to Boughton House in Northamptonshire in the form of tapestries, a triptych and a series of abstract paintings
The postminimalist decks the walls and floors of Dia Beacon with playful sculptures made from Styrofoam and found materials
The Victorian painter spent most of his life in asylums but his imagination remained unfettered, as this show at the Royal Academy makes clear
These snapshots of the great outdoors at the Yale Center for British Art range from the purely artistic to the fiercely political
After a two-year renovation, the artist’s studio in Sydney reopens with a survey of the formally inventive, technically impressive work he made in the 1970s
In 1958 the painter and printmaker collaborated with the French poet and fellow Surrealist Paul Éluard to create one of the most ingenious of all artist’s books
