Much of the art of Rembrandt and his peers was influenced by Jewish culture, as this show in Boston attests
The beefy demigod has long been an emblem of masculine power, but many artists have chosen to highlight his flaws too
From depictions of animals to bustling street scenes, the art made for the East India Company could be highly varied and collaborative
This mid-century group of friends and collaborators drew on Surrealism, German Expressionism and more in their eclectic paintings
The question of how art might usefully engage with social and political issues has long preoccupied artists and curators
Early works by this pioneer of Neo-Concretism are thrilling experiments with geometric forms, planes and space in two and three dimensions
The first Latino master printer in the United States worked closely with artists including Ruth Asawa and Herbert Bayer – and also printed his own designs
The Los Angeles institution’s relationship with the movement stretches back nearly a century, as this selection of masterpieces reveals
The Uffizi leans into the grotesque for Christmas, displaying Renaissance and baroque sculptures that range from the sweetly devotional and highly disturbing
One of America’s boldest and most eccentric architects gets a major survey at the Art Institute of Chicago
Many French artists in the middle of the 19th century resisted the political turmoil and rapid modernisation taking place around them
The Centre Pompidou may be closed, but its drawings collection is still at large, with some 300 works on paper at the Grand Palais
This exhibition in Paris makes clear that jewellery can make a highly effective political statement
The opening of this exhibition at the Design Museum is a red letter day for the artist and his admirers
In Atlanta, see how the photographer infused his work with a hint of southern gothic and a strong flavour of the absurd
Highlights from one of the world’s largest and most important collections of drawings go on display at the Albertina in Vienna
These two titans of the fashion industry shared a passion for iconoclasm, according to this show at the National Gallery of Victoria
The German artist is well-known for his frantic paintings, but his drawings, the focus of this exhibition, show us another side of his oeuvre
A pioneering Finnish modernist gets her first major museum exhibition in the United States
In the few years he spent in the Eternal City in the late 1480s, Lippi produced some of his most enduring masterpieces
This show in Lyon gives locals and visitors a chance to see the white cliffs of Normandy through the eyes of some remarkable French painters
The neoclassicist was among the most illustrious painters of the 18th century, and is the subject of this major survey at the Prado
The de Young in San Francisco sheds light on how these reference tools for needle-workers became seen as objets d’art in their own right
This exhibition at Tate Britain makes clear how these two masters, born within a year of each other, transformed British painting in vastly different ways
