In the Hungarian artist’s first exhibition in the United States, the Art Institute of Chicago presents works of cameraless photography and a geometric sculpture
Intricate automata made for Chinese emperors are travelling from the Palace Museum in Beijing to the Science Museum in London
The Met explores the long and productive relationship between painting, calligraphy and poetry through 90 works from its own collection
Paintings commissioned for the gallerist’s apartment in Paris have been reunited for the first time in nearly a century
Modern Two in Edinburgh is celebrating the centenary of the birth of the Scottish Pop art icon
To kick off its centenary celebrations, the Morgan Library & Museum in New York is putting on a show of as-yet-unseen photographs from its collection
The Expressionist’s visions of wartime cruelty and portraits of Weimar-era figures go on show in The Hague
A survey at the Swiss museum shows how the Canadian photographer has played an outsize role in reshaping his chosen medium
The documentarian of Black queer life in post-apartheid South Africa receives their first museum show on the US West Coast
The annual barometer of emerging talent in the UK returns to the Camden Art Centre
The Tokyo National Museum presents the works of the leading Edo-period artist and artisan
The Galleria Borghese looks at what Peter Paul Rubens learnt from the classical past
The Estorick Collection charts the Italian painter’s career from her days as an artist’s model to her luminous still lifes
Architectural photographs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. reveal a meeting of Indigenous and colonial styles
In Edinburgh, the Royal Scottish Academy is seeing in the new year with its annual display of Turner’s watercolours
The Stedelijk Museum looks at how the futuristic philosophy of Nikolai Fyodorov left its mark on the arts at the turn of the 20th century
A survey in Chicago shows how the photographer captured the complexities of South African society under and after apartheid
The Hepworth Wakefield celebrates the Singapore-born sculptor who developed a distinctive form of minimalism in post-war Britain
The Brooklyn Museum explores how this illustrious family has produced both traditional and also more innovative wares
The Romanian-German artist’s drawings, on display at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, fuse art, fantasy and botany
The V&A’s annual festive commission is a four-metre-tall kinetic sculpture by design duo Isabel + Helen
A spectacular baroque nativity scene featuring some 200 figures is now on show at the Art Institute of Chicago
A presepio scene by the sculptor Giuseppe Sanmartino is paired with a 20-foot-tree at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Museum of Saxon Folk Art in Dresden is exploring regional festive traditions – not least the elaborate shadow plays from the town of Sebnitz
