The Uffizi leans into the grotesque for Christmas, displaying Renaissance and baroque sculptures that range from the sweetly devotional and highly disturbing
One of America’s boldest and most eccentric architects gets a major survey at the Art Institute of Chicago
Many French artists in the middle of the 19th century resisted the political turmoil and rapid modernisation taking place around them
The Centre Pompidou may be closed, but its drawings collection is still at large, with some 300 works on paper at the Grand Palais
This exhibition in Paris makes clear that jewellery can make a highly effective political statement
The opening of this exhibition at the Design Museum is a red letter day for the artist and his admirers
In Atlanta, see how the photographer infused his work with a hint of southern gothic and a strong flavour of the absurd
Highlights from one of the world’s largest and most important collections of drawings go on display at the Albertina in Vienna
These two titans of the fashion industry shared a passion for iconoclasm, according to this show at the National Gallery of Victoria
The German artist is well-known for his frantic paintings, but his drawings, the focus of this exhibition, show us another side of his oeuvre
A pioneering Finnish modernist gets her first major museum exhibition in the United States
In the few years he spent in the Eternal City in the late 1480s, Lippi produced some of his most enduring masterpieces
This show in Lyon gives locals and visitors a chance to see the white cliffs of Normandy through the eyes of some remarkable French painters
The neoclassicist was among the most illustrious painters of the 18th century, and is the subject of this major survey at the Prado
The de Young in San Francisco sheds light on how these reference tools for needle-workers became seen as objets d’art in their own right
This exhibition at Tate Britain makes clear how these two masters, born within a year of each other, transformed British painting in vastly different ways
The 94-year-old artist is still going strong with her abstract geometric paintings, and recent work is displayed with the classics in this major retrospective
This survey presents a remarkable range of portraits, landscapes and still lifes – and reminds us that the painter was also a talented graphic designer
Five paintings from across four decades are hung in MoMA’s Marron Family Atrium to highlight the grandness of the artist’s vision
The Gemäldegalerie is unveiling its restoration of one of the Venetian master’s great paintings and displaying it alongside work by his contemporaries
The Cuban-born painter, who rubbed shoulders with Picasso, André Breton and Aimé Césaire, finally gets a US retrospective worthy of his singular talent
Though best known for her moveable sculptures and performance pieces, the Brazilian artist covered a lot of artistic ground
With the movement’s centenary now in the rearview mirror, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen explores how contemporary artists are keeping Surrealism current
The painter is closely associated with Cookham in Berkshire, but the Suffolk towns of Wangford and Southwold made a major impression on his art
