Apollo

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

Earthenware, gold jewellery, stone carvings and other gems from Korea reign supreme at the Royal Palace in Dresden

Though often thought of as a shy character, Munch painted a wide network of friends and peers, as this show in London attests

Humans have long depicted the sea in wildly different ways, as this show at the Sainsbury Centre makes clear

The Buffalo AKG celebrates a restlessly experimental artist who was at the heart of New York’s avant-garde in the 1970s and ’80s

In Madrid, the Thyssen-Bornemisza goes in search of the painters who inspired Marcel Proust and his magnum opus

The Hepworth Wakefield celebrates the British ceramicist whose pots take cues from jazz to achieve a sense of spontaneity