The Nun Ryonen (Ryonen-ni) from Famous Women of Past and Present (Kokon meifuden) (detail; 1864). Utagawa Kunisada.

Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection

The Denver Art Museum explores how Japanese women artists flew in the face of social conventions

4 Nov 2022

Louis Boulanger, Painter of Dreams

A close friend of Victor Hugo, this painter made his own key contribution to Romanticism

4 Nov 2022
Circus – Before the Show (1908–10), Marianne Werefkin. Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Ascona

Making Modernism: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin

The Royal Academy shines a light on the women artists who were central to the development of German Expressionism

4 Nov 2022
The Rye Marshes, East Sussex (1932), Paul Nash. Hull Museums Collection

Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water

An exhibition at Pallant House gallery explores how the South Downs have captured the imaginations of artists through the centuries

4 Nov 2022
Jardinière (c. 1730), China. Strawberry Hill House, London

Acquisitions of the Month: October 2022

This month’s highlights include the 18th-century Chinese jardinière that Horace Walpole famously used as a fish bowl

1 Nov 2022

Art of the Terraces

This show in Liverpool contends that the influence of the football Casuals extended far beyond the stadiums

28 Oct 2022
(1301–1400), anonymous artist. Musée des Augustins, Toulouse.

Toulouse 1300–1400: The Emergence of Southern Gothic

The Musée de Cluny in Paris explores how Toulouse became the home of a new style of sculpture and architecture

28 Oct 2022
Rubbing/Loving Project: Company Housing of Gwangju Theater (2012), Do Ho Suh.

Do Ho Suh

The Korean sculptor’s reconstructions of the places where he has lived get their first showing in Sydney

28 Oct 2022
Still Life with Compote and Grapes (1914–15), Pablo Picasso. Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio.

Cubism and the Trompe L’Oeil Tradition

Modern artists used time-honoured tricks to create their mind-bending works, as this show at the Met reveals

28 Oct 2022
Pedro Machuca

The Other Renaissance: Spanish Artists in Naples in the Early Cinquecento

The Prado explores how Italy’s southern capital became a hotbed for creativity

21 Oct 2022

Johann Gottfried Schadow: Embracing Forms

The Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin shows off its vast collection of works by the founder of the Berlin School of sculpture

21 Oct 2022
Meret Oppenheim

Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition

The surrealist artist’s playful and uncanny works are given the spotlight at MoMA

21 Oct 2022
Installation view of 'Klara Kristalova: Camouflage'

Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art

The Hayward highlights other-worldly works by 23 contemporary ceramicists

21 Oct 2022

Louis XV, Passions of a King

From mistresses to Rococo masterpieces, the exhibition at the Palace of Versailles takes a closer look at the colourful life of the 18th-century monarch

14 Oct 2022
Rosa Bonheur

Rosa Bonheur

The animal-painter extraordinaire is celebrated at the Musée d’Orsay

14 Oct 2022

Hieroglyphs: Unlocking Ancient Egypt

This exhibition at the British Museum includes an enchanted basin believed to possess the power to relieve heartbreak

14 Oct 2022

Edward Hopper’s New York

An exhibition at the Whitney explores the artist’s life-long fascination with the city

14 Oct 2022

The Legend of King Arthur: A Pre-Raphaelite Love Story

The exhibition at the William Morris Gallery explores how Arthurian folklore captured the imaginations of Victorian artists

7 Oct 2022
Untitled (Harlequin and Pulcinella) (detail; 1924), Pablo Picasso. Fundación MAPFRE

Picasso/Chanel

A show in Madrid sets out to explore how the close friendship between the painter and the fashion designer informed their work

7 Oct 2022

Visualizing the Virgin Mary

The Getty Center in Los Angeles explores the medieval fascination with the mother of Christ

7 Oct 2022

Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924–Today

The Design Museum in London shows how Surrealism changed the shape of everyday things

7 Oct 2022
Master of the Krainburg Altar.

Acquisitions of the Month: September 2022

Two busts by the French sculptor Charles Cordier and a 15th-century triptych by the Master of the Krainburg Altar are among this month’s highlights

6 Oct 2022
Saekdong

Hallyu! The Korean Wave

Taking in everything from Squid Game to BTS, this exhibition (24 September–25 June 2023) at the Victoria and Albert Museum…

30 Sep 2022

The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England

The Met explores how the Tudors transformed England’s standing as a centre for the arts

30 Sep 2022