Making the Met, 1870–2020
The museum reopens with a belated birthday celebration, looking back at 150 years of collecting and exhibiting art
Lines from Scotland
Tracing the evolution of drawing in Scotland over the last century at Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries
Gauguin and the Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Ordrupgaard Collection
A selection of 60 French paintings – many never before shown in the UK – goes on show at the Royal Academy
Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography
The Amon Carter Museum explores how the rise of portrait photography brought new opportunities for fun and games
Painting as Spectacle
Another chance to see these colossal ‘statement pictures’ as the Scottish National Gallery reopens
Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory
At the Barbican, a new series of large-scale drawings tell the story of an imaginary prehistoric society ruled by women
Ernst Barlach
An exhibition marking the 150th anniversary of the German Expressionist artist’s birth, at the Albertinum in Dresden
Hope Wanted: New York City Under Quarantine
An outdoor exhibition at the New-York Historical Society looks at life under lockdown in the city
Young Rembrandt
Retracing the Dutch master’s tentative first steps at the reopened Ashmolean Museum
Toulouse-Lautrec and the Celebrity Culture of Paris
This exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago brings to life the bohemian world of fin-de-siècle Montmartre
Berlin Works from Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas
The unfinished magnum opus featured a number of works held in Berlin’s state museums – now on display at the Gemäldegalerie
Denzil Forrester: Itchin & Scratchin
Nottingham Contemporary reopens with energetic dance-floor scenes from the Grenada-born artist
Bill Brandt/Henry Moore
An exhibition at Hepworth Wakefield traces the intersecting paths of the photographer and the sculptor
Dóra Maurer
The Tate Modern is hosting the largest UK survey to date of this Hungarian conceptual artist
Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray
The Barnes Foundation explores the career of the entrepreneur who modernised French tapestry-making
Illusions: The Art of Magic
How magicians from Kellar to Houdini wowed their audience and built their brand – a display at the Art Gallery of Ontario
20 Dances: Japanese Calligraphy Then and Now
Exploring the history of East Asia’s highest form of art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Beautiful Monsters in Early European Prints and Drawings (1450–1700)
The National Gallery of Canada shows off its collection of fantastic beasts by the likes of Dürer and Mantegna
Mid-Century Modern: Art & Design from Conran to Quant
How Swinging London became the centre of a revolution in style – an exhibition at Dovecot Studios
Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings
A video tour of Princeton University Art Museum’s shuttered exhibition with curator John Elderfield
Paa Joe: The Gates of No Return
The Ghanaian artist and coffin-maker’s memorials to slavery on the Gold Coast are on view at the High Museum in Atlanta
Ravenna Festival
Some 40 performances from the annual festival of opera and classical music are freely available to stream online
Pompeii
An immersive display at the Grand Palais shines a light on recent excavations of the ancient city
Fuji, Land of Snow
A display of prints at the Musée Guimet reveals how Japanese artists have depicted the great mountain across time
The many faces of Mary Magdalene