The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna pairs the German artist’s upside-down paintings with Old Masters

The capital of the Shang Dynasty is home to the country’s earliest surviving written records

The artist brings his scrapyard sculpture to the Hayward gallery

Gardens have long been seen as symbols of freedom and paradise, as this display in Stockholm makes clear

The Art Institute of Chicago considers the contradictory impulses that governed the Spanish surrealist during the 1930s

The German artist’s unsettling images examine the uncanny relationship between visual culture and collective memory

Two ornamental sets of vases owned by Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette of France go on show at the Getty Center in Los Angeles

The Whitechapel Gallery brings together 150 paintings by 81 international women artists

The painter’s characterful portraits shine a light on marginalised individuals in 20th-century New York

The Louisiana Museum of Art offers a rare opportunity to see works spanning the entirety of the American artist’s career

A series of rarely exhibited woodblock prints by the late Brazilian artist go on show at the Art Institute of Chicago

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam brings together more than 28 masterpieces in the biggest ever presentation of the painter’s work

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford unearths the mysteries of the Bronze Age civilisation in Crete

The Getty Center presents highlights from its magnificent collection of medieval manuscripts

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., celebrates the past masters of making art that goes over your head

The New Delhi-based photographer’s intimate and playful portraits of contemporary life in India go on show at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Akhenaten’s sun-worshipping cult is the focus of this exhibition at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen

The Met shines a light on the Danish Golden Age

From early experimental woodcuts to modern silkscreen printing, the Albertina Museum examines the evolution of the medium

The Hepworth Wakefield considers how ceramic arts have evolved over the last century

The late American painter captured everyday life with a sense of irony and humour