The annual barometer of emerging talent in the UK returns to the Camden Art Centre

The Tokyo National Museum presents the works of the leading Edo-period artist and artisan

The Galleria Borghese looks at what Peter Paul Rubens learnt from the classical past

The Estorick Collection charts the Italian painter’s career from her days as an artist’s model to her luminous still lifes

Architectural photographs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. reveal a meeting of Indigenous and colonial styles

In Edinburgh, the Royal Scottish Academy is seeing in the new year with its annual display of Turner’s watercolours

The Stedelijk Museum looks at how the futuristic philosophy of Nikolai Fyodorov left its mark on the arts at the turn of the 20th century

A survey in Chicago shows how the photographer captured the complexities of South African society under and after apartheid

The Hepworth Wakefield celebrates the Singapore-born sculptor who developed a distinctive form of minimalism in post-war Britain

The Brooklyn Museum explores how this illustrious family has produced both traditional and also more innovative wares

The Romanian-German artist’s drawings, on display at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, fuse art, fantasy and botany

The V&A’s annual festive commission is a four-metre-tall kinetic sculpture by design duo Isabel + Helen

A spectacular baroque nativity scene featuring some 200 figures is now on show at the Art Institute of Chicago

A presepio scene by the sculptor Giuseppe Sanmartino is paired with a 20-foot-tree at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum of Saxon Folk Art in Dresden is exploring regional festive traditions – not least the elaborate shadow plays from the town of Sebnitz

This exhibition drawn from the holdings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art features pieces by more than 70 female makers and designers

This exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, co-organised with the National Museum of Korea, presents 40 works dating from the 15th century to the present day

This exhibition at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich explores the notion of the glitch in the 20th and 21st centuries

This show at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore spans 1,750 years of Ethiopia’s rich cultural and artistic history

The Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris explores the Dutch designer’s pioneering practice