More than 250 works at the Met testify to millennia-old concerns about death and the afterlife

The Kunsthaus Zürich explores the two artists’ fleeting but formative friendship

The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena lends new meaning to the trope of the ‘starving artist’

The Petit Palais pays homage to France’s most famous thespian

This year’s event brings together 79 artists from South East Asia and further afield

Tate Britain presents a Pre-Raphaelite family affair in the form of paintings, designs and poetry

The subject of a famous portrait by Velázquez was a talented painter in his own right

The NGA in Washington, D.C. explores how artists through the ages have drawn on the ’Commedia‘ for inspiration

While the two painters had little in common, this show at the Musée d’Orsay shows how they spurred one another to new heights

The Met explores the British artist’s ongoing interest in still lifes, mortality and mirroring

The artist’s surviving Virgilian canvases are reunited at the Galleria Borghese in Rome

Our most loyal four-legged friends are the focus of this exhibition at the Wallace Collection in London

Two large-scale video installations in Frankfurt take viewers from the Mitchell Library in Glasgow to a Bronze Age city in Crete

Lesser-known works by one of the leading sculptors of the late gothic style go on show at the Cleveland Museum of Art

The National Gallery in London reveals how the influence of Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin spread throughout Europe

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston explores the Japanese master’s long-lasting legacy

The Kenyan-born artist weaves together myth and history to examine the legacies of colonialism

The Arte Povera pioneer’s sculptural meditations on the natural world are set amid the opulence of the Galleria Borghese in Rome

The Musée Jacquemart-André examines how the Renaissance master’s style was shaped by his encounters with fellow artists

The National Gallery in London looks again at one of the most recognisable works in its collections

The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf brings together provocative text-based works from across the artist’s career