Some 150 works by such luminaries as Ed Rossbach, Yayoi Kusama and Ruth Asawa put a different spin on the history of abstract art
Fifteen works of art depicting Apartheid-era South Africa in photography, prints and a painting go on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Paintings by one of the great chroniclers of communist and post-Soviet Albania are displayed alongside site-specific works by the younger, Georgian artist Thea Djordjazde
The National Galleries of Scotland pull out all the stops in exploring the life and times of the Stuart king
Filling the rotunda of the Guggenheim in New York, this survey of the protean American artist captures his verve, bite and intellectual range
One of the most distinctive Japanese artists of the 20th century gets a survey in Paris, the city that shaped his art and worldview in the 1930s
The American minimalist has always been fascinated by sound, and is now bringing her string-instrument sculptures to the Met’s rooftop
Dozens of instantly arresting photographs taken around the world in the last year go on display in this annual show at Somerset House
The portraitist gets her first solo show in New York, featuring striking paintings of cowboys, farmers, beauty queens and Michelle Obama
Some 50 sculptures of heads, busts and bodies by the German artist are on display alongside 100 works on paper, revealing fresh insights into his process
A chance to see how the Second World War transformed American attitudes towards art, design and fashion
The National Gallery continues its bicentenary celebrations with two vast, dramatic charcoal-on-paper drawings that are rarely on display
An exhibition in Denmark presents lesser-known modernists alongside the usual 20th-century titans
The largest survey of the Arte Povera artist in the UK encourages us to think differently about the boundary between art and nature
Though most celebrated for his woodcut prints, Albrecht Dürer was also a master engraver, as this free exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum makes clear
A major survey of Asawa’s work in San Francisco covers six-decades and reminds us that there was more to her work than wire sculptures
In this show marking 250 years since the artist’s birth, the Yale Center for British Art reflects on how the painter balanced realism with expressiveness
One of the most important art museums in South America unveils its brand new building this week, which doubles its exhibition space
The 19th-century painter’s landscapes captured the beauty of the Valley of Mexico as well as the growth of industrial production
The late American artist’s vast abstract canvases, acrylic mosaics and sculptures inspired by Black history go on display at MoMA
Works by Fernand Léger and the artists he influenced form the basis of a riotously colourful show in Luxembourg
The Albertina puts the British artist’s debt to Old Masters and Christian iconography in the spotlight
The American painter’s wit is on display in this retrospective in San Francisco, which includes several copies of works by his favourite artists
In private, the French writer was a skilled draughtsman of Gothic castles and fantastical creatures
