The Box in Plymouth celebrates the life and legacy of the Georgian painter on the 300th anniversary of his birth
The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia makes a case for enduring relevance of the sculptor’s career
The Barbican stages the first major UK survey of the American artist’s work
The subject of more than 300 love lyrics by the poet Petrarch became a muse to many artists
The Fries Museum hopes to restore the reputations of the painter couple who fell into obscurity after their deaths
The Courtauld explores the long history of artistic forgery
How 19th-century artists redefined the landscape genre
The National Museum in Oslo invites contemporary artists to respond to traditional examples of rural dress
The 12th edition of the event tackles the city’s complicated colonial histories
The Tate Modern considers how photography and painting have spurred each other to new heights
The Louisiana traces the evolution of the Icelandic artist’s career
The painter of fear and loathing was also a keen observer of the natural world
The Swedish artist’s wide-ranging practice included tapestry, costume design, painting, film and sculpture
The Albertina Museum considers how painters such as Jacques-Louis David and Henry Fuseli sought to measure themselves against the ancient past
The Louvre makes room for 60 Italian masterpieces from the Museo di Capodimonte
A remarkable bust of Marcus Aurelius makes an exceptional excursion from Switzerland to Los Angeles
The artist reflects on the fragility of the planet at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris
The Tate St Ives reveals how the experimental institution reimagined Moroccan art in the years after independence
The Statens Museum for Kunst considers 17th-century developments in science and philosophy inspired new styles of painting
The artist has been painting the same Birmingham barbershop for 15 years – and the results are now on show at the Hepworth Wakefield
The Harvard Art Museums shows that the medium is considerably less wishy-washy – and more modern – than it sometimes seems
The British Museum represents a century and more of imperial decline, civil uprisings and the birth of the modern republic in objects
How the Missouri-born dancer became a sensation in Parisian night clubs and a champion of civil rights in the United States
The British-Ghanaian artist’s work tackles histories of travel, migration and displacement