New galleries at the Art Institute of Chicago span more than 3,000 years of art in Egypt

The Morgan hosts this wide-ranging survey of the German Renaissance Master

The National Museum of Scotland looks at the life of this American naturalist who transformed ornithological illustration

This survey in London explores how six artists have reimagined the art of ceramics over the last 70 years

The Met’s survey of the provocative American sculptor who has worked in many genres and mediums

The Indigenous interpreter (and consort) of Hernán Cortés is a highly controversial figure, as this show in Denver makes clear

Fifteen paintings at the Courtauld Gallery shine a light on the artist’s intense self-scrutiny over the course of his short career

The American artist excelled in the fields of jewellery, furniture design and even public sculpture, as this survey at the Nasher proves

The Royal Academy relates the artist‘s obsessive study of animal forms to his distortions of the human figure

Six museums in Paris celebrate the breadth and depth of the fashion designer’s appreciation of French culture

A painting that was once a household name in Britain returns to the National Gallery for the first time in a century

The Pompidou celebrates this French photojournalist who once rubbed shoulders with Man Ray and Robert Capa

The Fondation Beyeler follows the painter’s career over six decades, from early abstractions to desert landscapes

A vast new complex dedicated to European music past and present opens in the heart of Budapest

The painter’s spare, gestural abstract works, not much seen outside Italy, go on display at the Estorick Collection in London

The sensational scowls and exaggerated gestures of Japanese kabuki actors were a popular subject for printmakers, as this show in Chicago proves

This show in Basel reveals how the Swiss Expressionist’s late forays into working with wood gave him greater freedom in his final years

To mark the centenary of the publication of ‘Ulysses’, the Huntington explores how novelists have mapped out their fictional worlds

SFMOMA hosts the first museum survey of the San Francisco-born artist, whose work explores the poetry of logical systems

The Hermitage in St Petersburg trains a spotlight on how fashion photography has kept reinventing itself since the 1930s

The Lightbox celebrates the pioneering Op artist’s 90th birthday with this wide-ranging retrospective

A major survey at Te Papa in Wellington reveals how the artist’s crisp style transformed painting in New Zealand

Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts presents the largest survey to date of the pioneering modernist designer and architect