Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, photographed in gigapixel resolution.

Virtual Mauritshuis

The museum in The Hague is the first in the world to be fully digitised in gigapixel resolution

4 Dec 2020
Maquette for We Are Building (detail; 1929), Valentina Kulagina.

Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented

A display at MoMA explores how the role of the artist was reinvented amid the tumult of the 1920s and ’30s

4 Dec 2020
APEX (detail of video still; 2013), Arthur Jafa.

Arthur Jafa

The American artist’s excoriating takes on celebrity and race go on display at Louisiana in Denmark

4 Dec 2020
(detail; 2020), Rosalind Nashashibi.

Rosalind Nashashibi: An Overflow of Passion and Sentiment

The National Gallery’s first artist in residence presents works responding to the museum’s Spanish Golden Age paintings

27 Nov 2020
It - didnt stop - I didnt stop (detail; 2019), Tracey Emin.

Tracey Emin/Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul

Themes of loss and longing unite the Norwegian painter and the erstwhile YBA in this show at the Royal Academy

27 Nov 2020
(detail; 2016), Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night

Tate Britain hosts the first UK museum survey of the London-born artist’s jewel-hued paintings

27 Nov 2020
Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different? (1992), Richard Hamilton.

Richard Hamilton: Respective

This exhibition at Pallant House considers the influence of international modernism upon the British Pop artist

27 Nov 2020
From the series ‘Natreen’ (2013), Leila Alaoui.

Leila Alaoui: Rites of Passage – virtual tour

Ekow Eshun shows us around the late French-Moroccan photographer’s shuttered exhibition at Somerset House

20 Nov 2020
Untitled (2019), Lisa Brice

Lisa Brice

The Cape Town-born painter’s electric portraits of women get their first museum outing in the Netherlands at GEM

20 Nov 2020

The Botanical Album of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues

Leaf through these exquisite 16th-century watercolours online, courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum

20 Nov 2020
Old Arguments on Indigenism (detail; 1989), Nalini Malani.

South Asian Art

Two new galleries at the Peabody Essex Museum survey the history of art on the subcontinent

20 Nov 2020
Matthew Burrows, who launched the Artist Support Pledge initiative in March 2020

Personality of the Year

Matthew Burrows

19 Nov 2020
Installation view, Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Ibeju-Lekki

Museum Opening of the Year

Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Ibeju-Lekki

19 Nov 2020
Toyin Ojih Odutola, photographed in 2019

Artist of the Year

Toyin Ojih Odutola

19 Nov 2020

Book of the Year

‘Bilderatlas Mnemosyne – The Original’ by Aby Warburg; Axel Heil and Roberto Ohrt (eds.)

19 Nov 2020
Installation view showing St John the Baptist and the Evangelist from the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) by Jan and Hubert van Eyck, MSK Ghent, 2020.

Exhibition of the Year

‘Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution’ at the MSK Ghent

19 Nov 2020
A Life Study: A Monk Sleeping against a Pile of Books

Digital Innovation of the Year

The Morgan, Connected

19 Nov 2020
Prospect Cottage and its garden, Dungeness.

Acquisition of the Year

Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage

19 Nov 2020
Around the Circle (1940), Vasily Kandinsky.

Kandinsky

A career-spanning survey dedicated to the father of abstract painting at the Guggenheim Bilbao

13 Nov 2020
An Unkindness (detail; 2019), Robyn O’Neil.

Telling Stories: Resilience and Struggle in Contemporary Narrative Drawing

The Toledo Museum of Art considers three different approaches to graphic art

13 Nov 2020
Map of Brazil from the Klencke Atlas (c. 1660), Johannes Klencke.

The Topographical Collection of King George III

Some 18,000 maps and views spanning four centuries have been made freely available online by the British Library

13 Nov 2020
The Eiger at Sunrise (1844), Alexandre Calame

Wild at Heart: Romanticism in Switzerland

This exhibition at Kunsthaus Zürich highlights the influence of the Swiss landscape on Romantic painting

13 Nov 2020

Exhibition of the Year

Artemisia National Gallery, London 3 October–24 January 2021 This display under Letizia Treves’s expert curation gathered 30 works firmly attributed…

12 Nov 2020

Digital Innovation of the Year

Art is where the home is Begun in response to Covid-19, ‘Art is where the home is’ was set up…

12 Nov 2020