The Art Gallery of New South Wales explores how Sidney Nolan infused Australian art with European avant-garde ideas in his early years
The Courtauld is a fitting venue for an artist who has made his name transfiguring Old Master compositions into shimmering contemporary visions
Renoir’s critical reputation has fallen behind that of many other Impressionists in recent years. The National Gallery asks us to look again
More than any other painter of his era the Impressionist was intent on capturing the passage of time, in urban scenes as in rural ones
The Serpentine presents three installations by the Indian film-maker, including his latest work – a seven-screen piece informed by the Partition of India
The Loire Valley chateau immerses visitors in great banquets of the past by laying out four historic table services, from 1539 to 1988
The New Museum in New York puts on the artist’s largest retrospective to date, bringing together film, sculpture, photography and recent paintings
The Palazzo Strozzi in Florence celebrates the many ways in which chunks and vestiges of artworks can excite the imagination
The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden shows why the Emilian painter deserves his place in the pantheon of Italian Renaissance masters
The Bard Graduate Center celebrates the many ways in which fashion influenced the wardrobe mavens of early Hollywood – and vice versa
Helene Kröller-Müller built up the largest collection of paintings by the Dutchman in private hands – and now her namesake museum is putting them all on display
The Impressionist painter, who took lessons from Manet before forging her own path, gets her first museum survey at the Petit Palais in Paris
This show hails the genius of the Italian mannerist and considers how his brushwork influenced later French painters
The artist became one of the key exponents of German Expressionism despite his death at the age of only 36
An lushly illustrated book of songs from the Mughal Empire sheds light on courtly culture in 18th-century Lucknow
The experimental late style forged by this leading light of Impressionism is the main focus of this show in Chicago
These works from the collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle brings home the sheer diversity of European modernism
Three perturbing films about the threat and the legacy of violence anchor this show of sculptures, watercolours and drawings at WIELS in Brussels
MASP dedicates five storeys of its new Pietro Maria Bardi building to a sprawling exhibition about the construction of identity in Latin America
One of the more shadowy artists of the Italian Renaissance gets a moment in the sun at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan
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
