The Uncivilised Cat (1930), Agnes Miller Parker. Photo: John McKenzie and The Fine Art Society; courtesy the Fleming Collection

Scottish Women Artists Transforming Tradition

The Sainsbury Centre shines a light on some of the leading Scottish women artists of the last century

8 Apr 2022
Jean-François Champollion's handwritten notebook with copies of the inscription of mummies (c. 1824–26). Courtesy: Museum of Turin. Photo: © BnF, Paris.

Champollion’s Adventure: The Secrets of the Hieroglyphs

The Bibliothèque Nationale de France celebrates the bicentenary of Jean-Franćois Champollion’s translation of the Rosetta Stone

8 Apr 2022
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Baptist (The Garvagh Madonna)

Raphael

The National Gallery explores the painter’s influence on architecture, archaeology and poetry

1 Apr 2022
Straßenbahn (detail; 1972) Georg Eisler. Photo: © Johannes Stoll

Georg Eisler

The artist’s bustling crowd scenes are on display at the Belvedere, Vienna

1 Apr 2022
(detail; 2020), Andrew Roberts. Courtesy of Mauricio Galguera. Photo: © Sergio López

Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept

America’s most provocative survey of contemporary art returns

1 Apr 2022
Saffron Sentinel (c. 2017) Sheila Hicks. Photo: © Noam Preisman

Sheila Hicks: Off Grid

The pioneering textile artist gets her first UK survey at the Hepworth Wakefield

1 Apr 2022
Giovanni Boldini, Portrait de Miss Bell, (c. 1903) Oil on canvas. Courtesy Villa Grimaldi Fassio, Civica Raccolta Luigi Frugone, Musei di Nervi, Italy. Photo: © Musei di Nervi, Raccolte Frugone

Boldini: Pleasures and Days

The Petit Palais celebrates the Italian ‘Master of Swish’ and his depictions of Parisian high society

25 Mar 2022
Head, possibly of a king)(12th–15th century), Yoruba people, Ife.

The Language of Beauty in African Art

This exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum focuses on African art through the eyes of the cultures that made it

25 Mar 2022
Painted Desert, (c. 1959), Photo: © the Whitworth, The University of Manchester

Althea McNish: Colour is Mine

The William Morris Gallery looks at the legacy of this key player in the Caribbean Arts Movement

25 Mar 2022
Costume Helmet Margrave Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach (detail; c. 1526) Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum. Photo © KHM-Museumsverband

Iron Men: Fashion in Steel

The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna shines a light on the artistry of Renaissance armour

25 Mar 2022
A Beauty in Front of King Enma's Mirror (1871–89), Kawanabe Kyosai.

Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection

The Royal Academy revels in the drunken, improvised paintings of this 19th-century Japanese virtuoso

18 Mar 2022
Untitled (1979), Juliana Seraphim.

Beirut and the Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility

The Gropius Bau looks at the glamour – and precariousness – of what is regarded by some as the city’s golden age

18 Mar 2022

Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear

This sartorial spectacle at the V&A looks at men’s fashion through history

18 Mar 2022
Three female impersonators, N.Y.C (detail; 1962), Diane Arbus.

Diane Arbus: Photographs, 1956–71

The photographer’s unsettling, off-kilter portraits get their first major Scandinavian showing at the Louisiana

18 Mar 2022
Saint Didacus receiving Alms (detail; 1604–05), Annibale Carracci and Francesco Albani.

Annibale Carracci: The Herrera Chapel

The surviving fragments of the baroque painter’s late masterpiece are reunited at the Prado for first time since 1833

11 Mar 2022
David

Donatello, the Renaissance

An unprecedented – and probably never to be repeated – exploration of the quattrocento master arrives in Florence

11 Mar 2022
Reclining female figure (detail), Parmigianino.

The Art of Experiment: Parmigianino

A show of prints and drawings at the Courtauld in London gives an insight into the working methods of the artist known as Raphael’s heir

11 Mar 2022
Propagazione (detail; 2013), Giuseppe Penone.

Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sèvres

The Arte Povera pioneer’s first experiments in porcelain go on display at the Frick in New York

11 Mar 2022
View for an engraving of the Colosseum, Rome (c. 1550), Hieronymus Cock, after the cricle of Domenico Ghirlandaio.

Hidden Masterpieces

A rare chance to see highlights from John Soane’s vast collection of drawings in London

4 Mar 2022
Little Fox River (1942), Milton Avery. Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York.

Milton Avery

The Wadsworth Atheneum shows that the American painter’s subtlety of line and originality of palette set him apart from his peers

4 Mar 2022
Woman with a Fan

Renoir: Rococo Revival

The Städel Museum explores the Impressionist’s debt to the paintings of Watteau and Fragonard

4 Mar 2022
«GBRÉ=GBLÉ» N° 118 from Alphabet Bété (1991), Frédéric Bruly Bouabré

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound

The Ivorian artist and inventor of the first writing system for the Bété people is celebrated in a show at MoMA

4 Mar 2022
Trajal Harrell. Photo: Diana Pfammatter

Trajal Harrell

The American choreographer presents three projects in his residency at the Kunsthalle Zürich

25 Feb 2022
Production image for ‘Rachel Jones: say cheeeeese’ (2021). Commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery; courtesy the artist

Rachel Jones: say cheeeeese

The artist pursues her interest in teeth and the mouths that contain them at the Chisenhale in London

25 Feb 2022