Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915
The Bard Graduate Center’s celebration of the profusion of flamboyant pottery in the 19th century is now online
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction
The Kunstmuseum Basel pays tribute to an artist who applied her geometric designs to everything from pillowcases to puppet theatres
Walter Gramatté and Hamburg
The German painter moved freely between Surrealism, Expressionism and Symbolism, as this display in Hamburg reveals
Ghost Words: Reading the Past
A virtual display of palimpsests at Cambridge University Library reveals how scholars have sought to recover erased texts
The Mausoleum of Augustus
The palatial resting place of Rome’s first emperor finally opens its doors to visitors
Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life
Explore the fantastical world of the avant-garde sculptor, who sought to imagine ‘a new kind of life’
Marinus: Painter from Reymerswale
The Prado hosts the first survey dedicated to this 16th-century painter of saints and tax collectors
Ottilie W. Roederstein
The reopening of the Kunsthaus Zürich brings another chance to see the work of the once hugely successful Swiss modernist
Masterpieces in Miniature: Treasures from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection
Sparkling objets d’art from the 16th to the 20th century go on view at DIVA in Antwerp
Golden Mummies of Egypt
The North Carolina Art Museum explores life and death in Egypt in the era after the reign of the pharaohs
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And
Since the early ’80s, the American artist has blurred the lines between performance, politics and conceptualism. A survey at the Brooklyn Museum
Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting
From ornate chandeliers to the humble desk lamp – the MFA Houston shines a light on 100 years of design innovation
Clarice Beckett: The Present Moment
The Australian painter’s misty Melbourne streets and beach scenes go on show at the Art Gallery of South Australia
Grief and Grievance: The Art of Mourning in America
This large-scale group show at the New Museum explores responses to racist violence in the US
Edward Steichen: In Exaltation of Flowers
The American photographer began his career as a painter – and his most ambitious work in that medium is on display at the Chrysler Museum of Art
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Housed in a former 1930s department store in Hollywood, a new venue dedicated to all things cinema
Munchmuseet
A vast new museum dedicated to the Scandi sensation is opening on Oslo’s waterfront
Frick Madison
The holdings of the Frick take up temporary residence in Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist landmark
Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
A new home in Paris for François Pinault’s vast contemporary art collections
Return to Palmyra
The Getty Research Institute launches an online exhibition dedicated to the ruined ancient city
Collecting Stories: The Invention of Folk Art
The MFA Boston explores how the work of amateurs and artisans came to represent a new kind of American art
The 19th Century in European and American Art
Denver Art Museum digs into its collection to explore a century of radical change in Western art
Goya’s Graphic Imagination
The Spanish master’s work on paper, on display at the Met, shows him at his most tortured and fantastical
Puccini’s ‘Il Trittico’
The composer’s trilogy of one-act operas is available to stream courtesy of the Royal Opera House
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