concept art (detail; 1950), Mary Blair

Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts

The Met Fifth Avenue delves into the art-historical inspirations for Disney’s magical creations

2 Dec 2021
Jah Shaka (detail; 1983), Denzil Forrester.

Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s–Now

From the arrival of the Windrush generation to the present day, this show at Tate Britain explores how Caribbean-British artists have made their mark

26 Nov 2021
Self-portrait (detail; 1782), Anna Dorothea Therbusch.

Anna Dorothea Therbusch: A Berlin Woman Artist of the Age of Enlightenment

The artist’s portraits of rulers, writers and scientists, on show at the Gemäldegalerie, make for a lively chronicle of the German Enlightenment

26 Nov 2021
An arhat from Changnyeongsa Temple.

Five Hundred Arhats of Changnyeongsa Temple

A group of ancient stone figures representing disciples of the Buddha, never before seen outside Korea, goes on display in Sydney

26 Nov 2021
A 17th-century etching of Bruin the Bear and Reynard the Fox by Allart van Everdingen, reprinted with added colour in an 1846 edition of Henry Cole's Pleasant History of Reynard the Fox.

North Sea Crossings

A display at the Bodleian in Oxford explores how the literary cultures of England and the Netherlands were closely intertwined

26 Nov 2021
Ball on Shipboard (detail; 2018), Lubaina Himid.

Lubaina Himid

A major survey of the Turner Prize-winner who was a leading figure in the Black British arts movement in the 1980s

19 Nov 2021
Untitled (detail; c. 1965), Ray Johnson.

Ray Johnson ℅

A survey of the collagist and creator of the New York Correspondence School of artists who exchanged ‘mail art’

19 Nov 2021
The Surprise (La Surprise)(detail; c. 1718-1719), Jean Antoine Watteau.

La Surprise: Watteau in Los Angeles

The Getty’s recent acquisition ‘La Surprise’ is joined by other works by Watteau in collections in Los Angeles

19 Nov 2021

Amy Winehouse

Ten years after her death, the Design Museum celebrates the life and music of the much-loved singer

19 Nov 2021
David Chipperfield (b. 1953), whose restoration of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and extension for the Kunsthaus Zürich both opened this year.

Personality of the Year

David Chipperfield

15 Nov 2021
Kehinde Wiley, photographed in New York in September 2021 by Kyle Dorosz.

Artist of the Year

Kehinde Wiley

15 Nov 2021
The Architects (1981), R.B. Kitaj

Acquisition of the Year

The collection of MJ Long and Colin St John Wilson: 175 works

15 Nov 2021
EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS (minted 16 February 2021; detail), Beeple

Digital Innovation of the Year

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)

15 Nov 2021

Book of the Year

‘Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment’ by Fabio Barry

15 Nov 2021
Geoffrey Hendricks and Brian (1978; detail), Alice Neel. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Exhibition of the Year

‘Alice Neel: People Come First’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

15 Nov 2021
A room at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, reopened May 2021.

Museum Opening of the Year

Musée Carnavalet, Paris

15 Nov 2021
Children in a Garden (The Nurse) (detail; 1878), Mary Cassatt.

Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France

The Denver Art Museum takes a broad look at the links between Paris and the United States during the 19th century

12 Nov 2021
Free, White and 21 (detail; 1980), Howardena Pindell.

Howardena Pindell: A New Language

The Fruitmarket in Edinburgh explores how the American artist has spoken truth to power since the 1970s

12 Nov 2021
Painted enamel rose with nephrite leaves in a rock crystal pot (1917), Fabergé.

Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution

The Russian goldsmith’s opulent trinkets – going on view at the V&A – delighted Edwardian high society

12 Nov 2021

La Chine: The 18th-century China Collection of the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett

Highlights from Augustus the Strong’s vast collection of Chinese paintings, prints and drawings go on view in Dresden

12 Nov 2021

Exhibition of the Year

Alice Neel: People Come First Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 22 March–1 August In around 100 paintings, drawings and…

12 Nov 2021

Museum Opening of the Year

Casa Balla, Rome Opened June 2021 For nearly 30 years, from 1929 until his death in 1958, Giacomo Balla lived…

12 Nov 2021

Book of the Year

A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture, 1540–1640 Mark Girouard Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The eminent architectural…

12 Nov 2021

Artist of the Year

Dawoud Bey Dawoud Bey has been making his compelling photographic portraits for five decades. Ranging from images of Harlem in…

12 Nov 2021