Studio Party (detail; c. 1924/25), Hermann Scherer.

Hermann Scherer: Grooves and Edges

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

7 Jan 2022
Map of Treasure Island, from Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883).

Mapping Fiction

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

7 Jan 2022
Static 16 (2008), Tauba Auerbach.

Tauba Auerbach — S v Z

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

17 Dec 2021
Junya Watanabe (Honeycomb) (2015), Erik Madigan Heck.

Beauty and Style: The History of Fashion Photography

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

17 Dec 2021
Ecclesia

Bridget Riley: Pleasures of Sight

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

17 Dec 2021
(detail; 1936), Rita Angus.

Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist

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

17 Dec 2021
Dining hall from Sanatorium Westend, Purkersdorf (1905), Josef Hoffmann.

Josef Hoffmann: Progress Through Beauty

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

10 Dec 2021
Jar (1971), Kamoda Shōji.

Kamoda Shōji: The Art of Change

The Minneapolis Institute of Art presents the first major museum survey of the celebrated ceramicist outside Japan

10 Dec 2021

Life with Art: Benton End and the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing

At Firstsite in Colchester, students and teachers from the influential art school established by Cedric Morris are reunited through their works

10 Dec 2021
Three sided relief with a scene of weighing the Boston Throne.

Art of Ancient Greece, Rome and the Byzantine Empire

Spanning the beginnings of Greek art and the fall of Constantinople, these galleries at the MFA Boston are reopening after a major renovation

10 Dec 2021
God appearing to Jacob at Bethel

Baroque Brilliance: Drawings and Prints by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

The Kunsthaus Zürich takes a close look at the Genoese virtuoso’s fluent draughtsmanship and innovative prints

3 Dec 2021
Detail of a facsimile of a 1791 genealogy of the House of Moctezuma, held in the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City. Facsimile (2021) by Tlaoli Ramírez Téllez. Courtesy the artist and LACMA; © Tlaoli Ramírez Téllez

Mixpantli: Space, Time and the Indigenous Origins of Mexico

This display of maps, mirrors and other objects at LACMA marks the 500th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlan

3 Dec 2021
In the Times of Harmony

Hue & Cry: French Printmaking and the Debate over Colors

The Clark Art Institute explores the 19th-century disdain for colour printmaking and its reclamation by artists of the fin-de-siècle

2 Dec 2021
concept art (detail; 1950), Mary Blair

Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts

The Met Fifth Avenue delves into the art-historical inspirations for Disney’s magical creations

2 Dec 2021
Jah Shaka (detail; 1983), Denzil Forrester.

Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s–Now

From the arrival of the Windrush generation to the present day, this show at Tate Britain explores how Caribbean-British artists have made their mark

26 Nov 2021
Self-portrait (detail; 1782), Anna Dorothea Therbusch.

Anna Dorothea Therbusch: A Berlin Woman Artist of the Age of Enlightenment

The artist’s portraits of rulers, writers and scientists, on show at the Gemäldegalerie, make for a lively chronicle of the German Enlightenment

26 Nov 2021
An arhat from Changnyeongsa Temple.

Five Hundred Arhats of Changnyeongsa Temple

A group of ancient stone figures representing disciples of the Buddha, never before seen outside Korea, goes on display in Sydney

26 Nov 2021
A 17th-century etching of Bruin the Bear and Reynard the Fox by Allart van Everdingen, reprinted with added colour in an 1846 edition of Henry Cole's Pleasant History of Reynard the Fox.

North Sea Crossings

A display at the Bodleian in Oxford explores how the literary cultures of England and the Netherlands were closely intertwined

26 Nov 2021
Ball on Shipboard (detail; 2018), Lubaina Himid.

Lubaina Himid

A major survey of the Turner Prize-winner who was a leading figure in the Black British arts movement in the 1980s

19 Nov 2021
Untitled (detail; c. 1965), Ray Johnson.

Ray Johnson ℅

A survey of the collagist and creator of the New York Correspondence School of artists who exchanged ‘mail art’

19 Nov 2021
The Surprise (La Surprise)(detail; c. 1718-1719), Jean Antoine Watteau.

La Surprise: Watteau in Los Angeles

The Getty’s recent acquisition ‘La Surprise’ is joined by other works by Watteau in collections in Los Angeles

19 Nov 2021

Amy Winehouse

Ten years after her death, the Design Museum celebrates the life and music of the much-loved singer

19 Nov 2021
David Chipperfield (b. 1953), whose restoration of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and extension for the Kunsthaus Zürich both opened this year.

Personality of the Year

David Chipperfield

15 Nov 2021
Kehinde Wiley, photographed in New York in September 2021 by Kyle Dorosz.

Artist of the Year

Kehinde Wiley

15 Nov 2021