Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts
The Met Fifth Avenue delves into the art-historical inspirations for Disney’s magical creations
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
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
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
North Sea Crossings
A display at the Bodleian in Oxford explores how the literary cultures of England and the Netherlands were closely intertwined
Lubaina Himid
A major survey of the Turner Prize-winner who was a leading figure in the Black British arts movement in the 1980s
Ray Johnson ℅
A survey of the collagist and creator of the New York Correspondence School of artists who exchanged ‘mail art’
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
Amy Winehouse
Ten years after her death, the Design Museum celebrates the life and music of the much-loved singer
Acquisition of the Year
The collection of MJ Long and Colin St John Wilson: 175 works
Book of the Year
‘Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment’ by Fabio Barry
Exhibition of the Year
‘Alice Neel: People Come First’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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
Howardena Pindell: A New Language
The Fruitmarket in Edinburgh explores how the American artist has spoken truth to power since the 1970s
Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution
The Russian goldsmith’s opulent trinkets – going on view at the V&A – delighted Edwardian high society
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
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…
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…
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…
Artist of the Year
Dawoud Bey Dawoud Bey has been making his compelling photographic portraits for five decades. Ranging from images of Harlem in…
The many faces of Mary Magdalene