Fifteen paintings at the Courtauld Gallery shine a light on the artist’s intense self-scrutiny over the course of his short career

The American artist excelled in the fields of jewellery, furniture design and even public sculpture, as this survey at the Nasher proves

The Royal Academy relates the artist‘s obsessive study of animal forms to his distortions of the human figure

Six museums in Paris celebrate the breadth and depth of the fashion designer’s appreciation of French culture

A painting that was once a household name in Britain returns to the National Gallery for the first time in a century

The Pompidou celebrates this French photojournalist who once rubbed shoulders with Man Ray and Robert Capa

The Fondation Beyeler follows the painter’s career over six decades, from early abstractions to desert landscapes

A vast new complex dedicated to European music past and present opens in the heart of Budapest

The painter’s spare, gestural abstract works, not much seen outside Italy, go on display at the Estorick Collection in London

The sensational scowls and exaggerated gestures of Japanese kabuki actors were a popular subject for printmakers, as this show in Chicago proves

This show in Basel reveals how the Swiss Expressionist’s late forays into working with wood gave him greater freedom in his final years

To mark the centenary of the publication of ‘Ulysses’, the Huntington explores how novelists have mapped out their fictional worlds

SFMOMA hosts the first museum survey of the San Francisco-born artist, whose work explores the poetry of logical systems

The Hermitage in St Petersburg trains a spotlight on how fashion photography has kept reinventing itself since the 1930s

The Lightbox celebrates the pioneering Op artist’s 90th birthday with this wide-ranging retrospective

A major survey at Te Papa in Wellington reveals how the artist’s crisp style transformed painting in New Zealand

Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts presents the largest survey to date of the pioneering modernist designer and architect

The Minneapolis Institute of Art presents the first major museum survey of the celebrated ceramicist outside Japan

At Firstsite in Colchester, students and teachers from the influential art school established by Cedric Morris are reunited through their works

Spanning the beginnings of Greek art and the fall of Constantinople, these galleries at the MFA Boston are reopening after a major renovation

The Kunsthaus Zürich takes a close look at the Genoese virtuoso’s fluent draughtsmanship and innovative prints

This display of maps, mirrors and other objects at LACMA marks the 500th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlan

The Clark Art Institute explores the 19th-century disdain for colour printmaking and its reclamation by artists of the fin-de-siècle