Painted in Mexico, 1700–1790: Pinxit Mexici
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
How painters in 18th-century Mexico developed new pictorial traditions
24 Apr - 22 Jul 2018
James Cook: The Voyages
British Library, London
Maps, artworks and journals tell the story of Cook’s world-changing voyages to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia
27 Apr - 28 Aug 2018
Brian O’Doherty: Language and Space
Irish Musem of Modern Art, Dublin
Looking at line and language in O’Doherty’s drawings inspired by ancient Celtic script
26 Apr - 16 Sep 2018
Escher’s Journey
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
Celebrating the life and work of the graphic artist who became Leeuwarden’s most famous resident
28 Apr - 28 Oct 2018
Margiana: A Bronze Age Kingdom in Turkmenistan
Neues Museum, Berlin
Artefacts from the Bronze Age civilisation alongside contemporary photography of 21st-century Turkmenistan
25 Apr - 7 Oct 2018
Jan Steen’s Histories
Mauritshuis, The Hague
A reexamination of a lesser-known aspect of the Dutch artist’s extensive oeuvre – his history paintings
15 Feb - 13 May 2018
Virginia Woolf
Tate St Ives
Feminist perspectives on landscape, domesticity and identity, inspired by the celebrated author
10 Feb - 29 Apr 2018
Napoleon: Art and Court Life in the Palace
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
A sumptuous recreation of the luxuries of court life in Napoleon’s Imperial Household
3 Feb - 6 May 2018
Journeys with ‘The Waste Land’
Turner Contemporary, Margate
How T.S. Eliot’s modernist poem has inspired artists from the 1920s to the present day
3 Feb - 7 May 2018
Canadian and Indigenous Art: 1968 to Present
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
More than 150 works trace the themes and movements that have shaped Canada’s artistic landscape since 1968
3 May 2017 - 6 May 2018