Elaine and Elaine (2020), Caroline Walker.

Caroline Walker: Windows

The Scottish artist’s first solo museum show features some 20 of her candid depictions of women at home and at work

20 Aug 2021

Minted in the Heart of Europe: Money and the Medallic Art in Czecho/Slovakia

The history of Czechoslovakia is recounted via coins, banknotes and medals in this display in Dresden

12 Aug 2021
Dance in a Subterranean Round- house at Clear Lake, California (detail; 1878), Jules Tavernier.

Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo

The Met shines a light on the French artist’s travels among the Indigenous communities of California in the 1870s

12 Aug 2021
Photograph of Shigeko Kubota reflected in Three Mountains (1976–79) in her loft on Mercer Street, New York (1979), Peter Moore.

Shigeko Kubota: Liquid Reality

A display at MoMA devoted to the video art pioneer, who once likened the technology to ‘a new paintbrush’

12 Aug 2021
Autumn Nocturne (2018), Matthew Wong.

Matthew Wong: Blue View

Toronto hosts the first museum display of the late painter’s melancholy nocturnal scenes

12 Aug 2021
The Kunsthaus Zürich extension, designed by David Chipperfield and seen from the Heimplatz with Pipilotti Rist’s Tastende Lichter (2021).

Kunsthaus Zürich

With David Chipperfield’s new extension the art museum is set to become the largest in Switzerland

6 Aug 2021
The Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, with Alexander Calder’s Têtes et Queue (1965).

Neue Nationalgalerie

Mies van der Rohe’s modernist landmark reopens in Berlin after six years of renovations

6 Aug 2021
Ships in a Gale on the IJ before the City of Amsterdam (1666), Ludolf Bakhuizen.

MFA Boston – Dutch and Flemish Galleries

A comprehensive rehang and a new research facility for the museum’s extensive Netherlandish collections

6 Aug 2021
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (detail; 1881–82), Édouard Manet.

The Courtauld Gallery

The London institution’s home at Somerset House has been comprehensively restored and expanded

6 Aug 2021
David Livingston Birthplace exterior.

David Livingstone Birthplace

A museum in the Scottish explorer’s former home reopens after four years and a £9.1m revamp

30 Jul 2021
Doll Festival (1966), Shinohara Ushio.

Tokyo: Art and Photography

This show at the Ashmolean explores how the Japanese capital has been depicted through time

30 Jul 2021
Searching for Immortals, Shitao. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Companions in Solitude: Reclusion and Communion in Chinese Art

Works from the 11th century to the present day go on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

30 Jul 2021
There were Three Maidens pu’d a Flower (c. 1897), Charles H. Mackie. City Art Centre, Museums & Galleries Edinburgh.

Edinburgh Art Festival

From 20th-century painting surveys to brand-new commissions – a month of arts programming all around the city

30 Jul 2021

Bellotto: The Königstein Views Reunited

A chance to see all five of the Venetian’s dramatic depictions of a fortress outside Dresden – for the first time in more than 250 years

23 Jul 2021
Installation view of ‘Leiko Ikemura: Usagi in Wonderland’ at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, in 2021. Photo: Andi Sapey; courtesy of the Sainsbury Centre

Leiko Ikemura: Usagi in Wonderland

In Norwich, a first solo show in the UK for the contemplative Japanese-Swiss artist with a playful streak

23 Jul 2021
Golden (detail; 2009), Ekua Holmes.

Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes​

The MFA Boston presents the artist’s vivid book illustrations and colourful collages

23 Jul 2021
No. 1054 Arpeggio (2021), Rana Begum.

Folkestone Triennial

The celebrated seaside sculpture trail returns to the coastal town in Kent

23 Jul 2021
The Humboldt Forum, Berlin. Photo: Alexander Schippel

Humboldt Forum

Open to the public at long last, the reconstructed Berlin Palace provides a grand new home for the city’s collections of non-Western art

16 Jul 2021
The Lie (1898), Félix Vallotton.

Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900

From domestic bliss to secret affairs – the Cleveland Museum of Art explores the home lives of the Parisian avant-garde

16 Jul 2021
Installation view of ‘Karla Black: sculptures 2001–2021’, in the new warehouse space at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh. Photo: Tom Nolan

Fruitmarket

After a major expansion, the contemporary arts hub in Edinburgh reopens with a Karla Black retrospective

16 Jul 2021
Our Lady of Peace (detail; 1907), Evelyn De Morgan.

Pre-Raphaelite Artist of Hope: Evelyn De Morgan

De Morgan’s staunch pacifism was reflected in her symbolic paintings and sketches, now on view at Towneley Hall in Burnley

16 Jul 2021
Woman painter at her easel (detail; n.d.), Hanna Bekker vom Rath.

About Women: Female Destinies in the Böhme Collection

The Museum of the Lost Generation in Salzburg explores the lives of women artists whose careers were cut short by the Nazis

9 Jul 2021
Head of a walrus (1521), Albrecht Dürer.

Dürer Was Here: A Journey Becomes Legend

A museum in Aachen, where Dürer stopped over in 1520, retraces the artist’s footsteps on that voyage

9 Jul 2021
The Coronation of the Virgin (detail; 1358), Paolo Veneziano. The Frick Collection, New York

Paolo Veneziano: Art and Devotion in 14th-Century Venice

Panels from a long-dispersed altarpiece by the trecento painter are reunited at the Getty Center

9 Jul 2021