A Chardin still life and a pair of wooden sculptures from medieval Japan are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
The Nasjonalmuseet Oslo’s retrospective of work by Britta Marakatt-Labba includes embroidered pieces that tell stories of Sami life
Paintings by the Austrian Expressionist artist are paired with work by her better-known peers at the Belvedere in Vienna
Some 175 photographs spanning Irving Penn’s seven-decade career go on show at the de Young Museum in San Francisco
For Ababri’s first major exhibition in the UK, the Barbican’s Curve gallery is filled with works that reflect on queer life and love
The San Franciscan painter and ceramicist uses jazz, podcasts and Bay Area nature to help him create fantastical anthropomorphic works out of clay
In honour of the centenary of Eduardo Paolozzi’s birth, we look at four works that convey the dazzling variety of forms mosaics have taken throughout history
Among the exhibitions that can be seen in a day trip from the fair are Frans Hals in Amsterdam, Immanuel Kant in Bonn and Sung Hwan Kim in Eindhoven
Plus: The Palestinian artist Fathi Ghaben has died after being unable to leave Gaza for medical treatment
The Met is pairing ancient Andean weaving with textiles by 20th-century women artists to explore the ties that bind them.