Making History: Shakespeare and the Royal Family
An online exhibition explores the fascination Shakespeare’s plays have held for generations of British monarchs
Gainsborough Old Hall
One of the best preserved Tudor manors in England reopens after an extensive renovation
Luma Arles
The Swiss contemporary art foundation gets a glistening new home in the south of France, designed by Frank Gehry
Bellum et Artes: Saxony and Central Europe in the Thirty Years War
A display in Dresden explores how artists fared in a turbulent era
Paula Rego
The Portuguese-born painter’s masterfully unsettling canvases go on view in her largest UK survey to date, at Tate Britain
Hôtel de la Marine
The former headquarters of the French navy in Paris opens to the public after a major revamp
Musée Champollion
A new museum in the picturesque family home of the Egyptologist who deciphered the Rosetta Stone
Fire and Vine: The Story of Glass and Wine
A display of vessels for vino, from ancient times to the present, at the Corning Museum of Glass
The Giacometti: A Family of Creators
Alberto was by no means the only talented artist of the clan – as this display at Fondation Maeght proves
The Medici: Portraits & Politics, 1512–1570
The Met explores how the Florentine dynasty used art as a tool to assert their cultural and political power
I Transmit: 100 Years of Joseph Beuys
A Beuys treasure hunt in Munich, courtesy of the Pinakothek der Moderne
Bound for Versailles: The Jayne Wrightsman Bookbindings Collection
An outstanding collection of French volumes from the 18th century goes on display at the Morgan Library
Ben Nicholson: From the Studio
This show at Pallant House explores the British artist’s interest in still life – showing paintings alongside the studio objects that inspired them
Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway
Paintings and woodblocks inspired by Nordic folklore get their first US showing at the Clark Art Institute
Helsinki Biennial
The city’s inaugural biennial takes place both on the mainland and a nearby island – plus, of course, online
Mamma Andersson
The Swedish artist’s strange compositions, culled from a range of sources, travel to Louisiana in Denmark
Gustave Moreau: The Fables
The French Symbolist’s colourful illustrations go on display at Waddesdon – for the first time in more than a century
Giovanni da Udine
The first show devoted to Raphael’s pupil, held in the castle he decorated in his home city
Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw
Works on paper at the Art Institute of Chicago by the retired veteran and circus worker, who began to draw in the final decade of his life
August Gaul: Modern Animals
From wild beasts to pedigree dogs – the Kunstmuseum Bern explores how animals were depicted in Gaul’s time
Art and Diplomacy: Japanese Objects from the Château de Fontainebleau
An exceptional group of diplomatic gifts from the 14th Shogun to Napoleon III goes in display in Fontainebleau
Cézanne Drawing
Some 250 works on paper at MoMA reveal the post-Impressionist at his most innovative and daring
Kara Walker: A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be
The provocative American artist offers a glimpse of her extensive archive of drawings at the Kunstmuseum Basel
The many faces of Mary Magdalene