Paolozzi at 100
Modern Two in Edinburgh is celebrating the centenary of the birth of the Scottish Pop art icon
Seen Together: Acquisitions in Photography
To kick off its centenary celebrations, the Morgan Library & Museum in New York is putting on a show of as-yet-unseen photographs from its collection
Universum Max Beckmann
The Expressionist’s visions of wartime cruelty and portraits of Weimar-era figures go on show in The Hague
Jeff Wall
A survey at the Swiss museum shows how the Canadian photographer has played an outsize role in reshaping his chosen medium
Zanele Muholi: Eye Me
The documentarian of Black queer life in post-apartheid South Africa receives their first museum show on the US West Coast
New Contemporaries
The annual barometer of emerging talent in the UK returns to the Camden Art Centre
The Artistic Cosmos of Hon’ami Koetsu
The Tokyo National Museum presents the works of the leading Edo-period artist and artisan
The Touch of Pygmalion: Rubens and Sculpture in Rome
The Galleria Borghese looks at what Peter Paul Rubens learnt from the classical past
Pasquarosa: From Muse to Painter
The Estorick Collection charts the Italian painter’s career from her days as an artist’s model to her luminous still lifes
In the Library: Latin American Architecture in Circulation
Architectural photographs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. reveal a meeting of Indigenous and colonial styles
Turner in January
In Edinburgh, the Royal Scottish Academy is seeing in the new year with its annual display of Turner’s watercolours
Cosmism: Images from a Future Gathering
The Stedelijk Museum looks at how the futuristic philosophy of Nikolai Fyodorov left its mark on the arts at the turn of the 20th century
David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive
A survey in Chicago shows how the photographer captured the complexities of South African society under and after apartheid
Kim Lim: Space, Rhythm & Light
The Hepworth Wakefield celebrates the Singapore-born sculptor who developed a distinctive form of minimalism in post-war Britain
Porcelains in the Mist: The Kondo Family of Ceramicists
The Brooklyn Museum explores how this illustrious family has produced both traditional and also more innovative wares
Miron Schmückle: Flesh for Fantasy
The Romanian-German artist’s drawings, on display at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, fuse art, fantasy and botany
Christmas Tree Installation 2023: Power Plant
The V&A’s annual festive commission is a four-metre-tall kinetic sculpture by design duo Isabel + Helen
The Neapolitan Crèche
A spectacular baroque nativity scene featuring some 200 figures is now on show at the Art Institute of Chicago
Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
A presepio scene by the sculptor Giuseppe Sanmartino is paired with a 20-foot-tree at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Christmas at the Jägerhof
The Museum of Saxon Folk Art in Dresden is exploring regional festive traditions – not least the elaborate shadow plays from the town of Sebnitz
Acquisitions of the Month: November 2023
A terracotta relief by Donatello and a vanishingly rare set of 16th-century silverware are among this month’s highlights
Are the art market’s problems being blown out of proportion?