Derek Jarman at Prospect Cottage (detail; c. 1990).

Derek Jarman: My garden’s boundaries are the horizon

The Garden Museum is a fitting setting for this exhibition exploring the role of nature in the artist and film-maker’s work

10 Jul 2020
Lac Sevan, Arménie, URSS, 1972 (1972/73), Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Henri-Cartier Bresson: Le Grand Jeu

The French photographer’s chosen ‘Master Set’ of his most important works is the focus at the reopened Palazzo Grassi

3 Jul 2020
School scene (early 16th century), France.

A Window on to Everyday Life

An array of functional objects at the Musée du Cluny shows how medieval people ate, played, prayed, and took care of themselves

3 Jul 2020
Freedom of Worship (detail; 1943), Norman Rockwell.

Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom

Revisiting the American artist’s powerful depictions of human rights at Denver Art Museum

3 Jul 2020
Girl at a Window (detail; 1653–55), Nicolas Maes.

Nicolas Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age

Intriguing domestic scenes by the pupil of Rembrandt go back on show at the reopened National Gallery

3 Jul 2020
The Flight into Egypt, from the Mondsee Altarpiece (detail; c. 1495–99), Master of Mondsee.

The Master of Mondsee

All eight surviving paintings from the lost Mondsee altarpiece are reunited for the first time at the Upper Belvedere

26 Jun 2020
Film still from Dancing at Dusk - A Moment with Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring (2020), Florian Heinzen-Ziob.

Dancing at Dusk – A Moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring

From soil to sand – a pan-African troupe’s performance of the ballet was filmed on the beach in Senegal just before lockdown

26 Jun 2020

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Paris!

This exhibition at the Pompidou considers the formative years the artist duo spent in the French capital

26 Jun 2020

The Glastonbury Festival Archive

With the 50th anniversary edition of the event cancelled, the V&A is hosting an alternative celebration (online)

26 Jun 2020
Dromedary camels, loaded with slabs of salt, on caravan route, Timbuktu, Mali (1971), Eliot Elisofon.

Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time web app

A new digital platform recreates the Block Museum of Art’s display on art and exchange in medieval Africa

19 Jun 2020
Picture of an Old Man (detail; 1435–40), Jan van Eyck.

300 Years Keeping in the Present

A rare drawing by Van Eyck is a highlight in this survey of the Kupferstich-Kabinett’s 300-year history

19 Jun 2020

Deana Lawson: Centropy

The American artist’s intimate photographs of the African diaspora go on show at the Kunsthalle Basel

19 Jun 2020

Curator tour – Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk

A behind-closed-doors visit to the V&A’s display on the evolution of Japan’s national garment

19 Jun 2020
Sixteen heads of men (detail; 18th century), Louis-Léopold Boilly

In the Drawing Room

Four centuries of French drawings from a remarkable private collection – an exhibition at the Petit Palais

12 Jun 2020
Installation view of ‘Katharina Grosse: It Wasn't Us’ at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 2020.

Katharina Grosse: It Wasn’t Us

The reopened Hamburger Bahnhof is transformed inside and out by the German artist’s spray-painted surfaces

12 Jun 2020
Pasted photographs by Gaia Squarci (Prospekt), and Ashely Gilbertson (VII) on Boulevard des Filles du Calvaire, Paris, 2020.

Life During Wartime

A virtual display of contemporary art considers how the world has changed since a pandemic was declared on 5 March

12 Jun 2020
Grave Circle A viewed from South, Mycenae (1920–23), unknown photographer.

Digital Mycenae

Cambridge University Library has digitised a vast archive of material from excavations at the Bronze Age site

12 Jun 2020
The Prince of Wales and Group at the Pyramids, Giza, Egypt (1862), Francis Bedford.

Sights of Wonder: Photographs from the 1862 Royal Tour

A Victorian voyage from Alexandria to Athens is revisited in this online exhibition at the Barber Institute

5 Jun 2020
Untitled (2020), Kristina Feldhammer

The Goldberg Variations: Meditations on Solitude

A filmed performance of Bach’s famous composition, accompanied by poems and images on the theme of isolation

5 Jun 2020
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889, Vincent van Gogh

In the Picture

This exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum examines how modern artists have presented themselves through portraiture

5 Jun 2020
T 1967-H25 (detail; 1967), Hans Hartung.

Black Suns

The Louvre-Lens reopens with an exhibition exploring the use of the colour black in art

5 Jun 2020
Self-Portrait in the Front of Two Watercolours at Ekely, II

The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch’s Photography

Ahead of its planned opening this autumn, the Munchmuseet presents an exhibition of the artist’s selfies

29 May 2020
Detail of the ceiling of the Upper Hall, featuring portraits of Queen Anne and Prince George of Denmark

Old Royal Naval College Painted Hall virtual tour

Zoom in on every detail of James Thornhill’s spectacularly baroque scheme – Britain’s answer to the Sistine Chapel

29 May 2020
Tile from Princess Mary’s kitchen apartment in Palace Het Loo, Rotterdam (c. 1685)

Royal Blue: William and Mary’s Finest Delftware

The Kunstmuseum den Haag reopens with a show delving into the world of Dutch delftware

29 May 2020