Photo: Corning Museum of Glass

Fire and Vine: The Story of Glass and Wine

A display of vessels for vino, from ancient times to the present, at the Corning Museum of Glass

25 Jun 2021
(detail; 1911), Giovanni Giacometti.

The Giacometti: A Family of Creators

Alberto was by no means the only talented artist of the clan – as this display at Fondation Maeght proves

25 Jun 2021

The Medici: Portraits & Politics, 1512–1570

The Met explores how the Florentine dynasty used art as a tool to assert their cultural and political power

18 Jun 2021
We can't do it without the rose (detail; 1972), Joseph Beuys.

I Transmit: 100 Years of Joseph Beuys

A Beuys treasure hunt in Munich, courtesy of the Pinakothek der Moderne

18 Jun 2021
Prières du matin et du soir (detail; 1748), written and bound for Louis-Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé, by Louis Pierre Vallain.

Bound for Versailles: The Jayne Wrightsman Bookbindings Collection

An outstanding collection of French volumes from the 18th century goes on display at the Morgan Library

18 Jun 2021
June 16-47 (still life) (detail; 1947), Ben Nicholson. Private collection.

Ben Nicholson: From the Studio

This show at Pallant House explores the British artist’s interest in still life – showing paintings alongside the studio objects that inspired them

18 Jun 2021
Marsh Marigold Night (before 1915; detail), Nikolai Astrup. Savings Bank Foundation DNB / KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes, Bergen

Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway

Paintings and woodblocks inspired by Nordic folklore get their first US showing at the Clark Art Institute

10 Jun 2021
Shutter Splinter (2021) Katharina Grosse. Commissioned by HAM/Helsinki Biennial 2021.

Helsinki Biennial

The city’s inaugural biennial takes place both on the mainland and a nearby island – plus, of course, online

10 Jun 2021
About a Girl (2005), Mamma Andersson.

Mamma Andersson

The Swedish artist’s strange compositions, culled from a range of sources, travel to Louisiana in Denmark

10 Jun 2021
Allegory of Fable (1879; detail), Gustave Moreau. Private Collection.

Gustave Moreau: The Fables

The French Symbolist’s colourful illustrations go on display at Waddesdon – for the first time in more than a century

10 Jun 2021
A fresco by Giovanni da Udine at the Villa Farnesina, Rome

Giovanni da Udine

The first show devoted to Raphael’s pupil, held in the castle he decorated in his home city

4 Jun 2021
American Zeppolin Flight from New York City to Paris France in Year 1939 (1969), Joseph E. Yoakum.

Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw

Works on paper at the Art Institute of Chicago by the retired veteran and circus worker, who began to draw in the final decade of his life

4 Jun 2021
Michael McMillan’s ‘Front Room 1976’.

Museum of the Home

The former Geffrye Museum has had its very own £18.1m home makeover

4 Jun 2021
Two Sitting Cubs (1903/4), August Gaul.

August Gaul: Modern Animals

From wild beasts to pedigree dogs – the Kunstmuseum Bern explores how animals were depicted in Gaul’s time

4 Jun 2021
Detail from Japanese folding screen.

Art and Diplomacy: Japanese Objects from the Château de Fontainebleau

An exceptional group of diplomatic gifts from the 14th Shogun to Napoleon III goes in display in Fontainebleau

28 May 2021
Still Life with Blue Pot (1900–06), Paul Cézanne.

Cézanne Drawing

Some 250 works on paper at MoMA reveal the post-Impressionist at his most innovative and daring

28 May 2021
Kara Walker photographed in her studio in 2019 (detail).

Kara Walker: A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be

The provocative American artist offers a glimpse of her extensive archive of drawings at the Kunstmuseum Basel

28 May 2021
The Rainbow Landscape (detail; c. 1636), Peter Paul Rubens.

Rubens: Reuniting the Great Landscapes

A pair of late masterpieces by the Flemish painter are displayed together at the Wallace Collection for the first time in 200 years

28 May 2021
An Anglo-Saxon disc brooch.

The Galloway Hoard: Viking-age Treasure

The greatest medieval treasure-trove ever found in Scotland goes on display for the first time

21 May 2021

Epic Iran

A spectacular survey at the V&A takes us through five thousand years of Iranian civilisation

21 May 2021
The Doge’s Room. Photo: Matteo De Fina

The Doge’s Room

One of the most spectacular rooms in the Palazzo Grimani sees the return of its classical statuary

21 May 2021
Luigi Pericle

Luigi Pericle: Ad Astra

The reclusive Swiss painter with esoteric interests is now the subject of a major survey in Lugano

21 May 2021
Near Alexandria: The Desert (detail; 1842), Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey.

Girault de Prangey

The first photographer to capture many places in the eastern Mediterranean goes on display at the reopened Musée d’Orsay

14 May 2021
The Wake beneath the Arc de Triomphe, 31 May 1885 (1903), Alfred Roll.

Victor Hugo, Liberty at the Panthéon

A display at the Panthéon explores the political symbolism of the writer’s internment there in 1885

14 May 2021