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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A major survey for the trailblazing British Surrealist spanning her seven-decade career, at the Whitechapel Gallery

This display at the British Museum will explore the turbulent life – and grisly death – of the 12th-century priest

The Scottish artist has built a derelict toyshop, home to a cartoon princess, in the woods of Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh

A display in Edinburgh of the painter’s stirring seascapes marks the centenary of her birth

An exhibition of contemporary art inaugurates new gallery spaces – part of a $233m revamp – at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

From cabbages with chicken feet to a rhino-shaped desk – a survey of Les Lalanne at the Clark Art Institute

The superstar artist has flooded the Fondation Beyeler with fluorescent pond water – a statement on climate change, apparently

The Royal Opera House hosts an online festival of new works that experiment with digital technology

This wide-ranging survey explores images of motherhood across time – at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

The Guggenheim Bilbao explores how avant-garde across Europe flourished during ‘les années folles’

New York Botanical Gardens is the perfect setting for an exhibition exploring the artist’s lifelong fascination with nature