The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., shows that the French capital was the place to be for forward-thinking American women
The first survey of the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle opens at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City
The spiritual side of space, colour and light preoccupied the modernist artists who gathered in Munich before the First World War
The Louvre looks at the ancient history that inspired a French aristocrat to create a modern form of the Olympic Games
More than 150 masterpieces of ancient Chinese craftsmanship go on show at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
The father of German Romantic art gets a major survey to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth
This shadowy depiction of Saint Ursula, thought to be Caravaggio’s last work, demonstrates that the artist’s mastery never left him
An exhibition in Venice suggests that the Abstract Expressionist’s visits to Rome changed his art for ever
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs explores Paris’s department store boom and the rise of the bourgeoisie
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is celebrating the artist’s infinite variety through an exhibition of drawings, photographs, films, jewellery and more
The British-Nigerian artist is exhibiting new and old works at the Serpentine, in his first institutional show in London in two decades
An unfairly neglected 19th-century innovator gets the exposure he deserves at the Getty Center
The British artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States includes characteristically layered works that dwell on the themes of memory and emotion
The practice of concealing portraits behind sliding covers or in puzzle-laden boxes is being unpacked in an unusual exhibition at the Met
The Getty Center is celebrating one of the most precociously gifted sculptors of the late 19th century
Beijing’s Palace Museum explores 200 years of diplomacy through more than 150 artworks and objects
The Polish artist’s paintings inspired by famous works and made for an upcoming film get star billing at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam
The William Morris Gallery in London is a fitting host for works by Japanese makers inspired by the Art and Crafts movement
Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens are known primarily for their virtuosic large-scale paintings, but both were also highly skilled draughtsman
The Musée d’Orsay demonstrates how far the work of Monet, Morisot, Renoir and co. has come since the art establishment shunned it 150 years ago
The French artist wrestles with the limits of reality in Venice, a city famous for masks and disguises
The Louvre has restored the Van Eyck masterpiece for the first time since it entered the museum in 1800
London’s National Portrait Gallery brings together the work of two photographers who worked a century apart
The artist’s refusal to restrict herself to a single medium makes the Museum Ludwig’s retrospective a restless affair
