Model wearing Mary Quant’s Pattern No. 3288, set against the Houses of Parliament (1964), John Walcott

Mid-Century Modern: Art & Design from Conran to Quant

How Swinging London became the centre of a revolution in style – an exhibition at Dovecot Studios

17 Jul 2020
L’Estaque (detail; 1879–83), Paul Cézanne.

Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings

A video tour of Princeton University Art Museum’s shuttered exhibition with curator John Elderfield

17 Jul 2020
Gross - Friedrichsburg – Princetown. 1683 Brandenburg, 1717 - 24 Ahanta, 1724 Neths, 1872 Britain (2004–05/2017), Paa Joe.

Paa Joe: The Gates of No Return

The Ghanaian artist and coffin-maker’s memorials to slavery on the Gold Coast are on view at the High Museum in Atlanta

17 Jul 2020
The Quartetto Noûs performing a tribute to Beethoven on 4 July.

Ravenna Festival

Some 40 performances from the annual festival of opera and classical music are freely available to stream online

10 Jul 2020
Portrait of a woman from the House with Garden (1st century BC), Pompeii.

Pompeii

An immersive display at the Grand Palais shines a light on recent excavations of the ancient city

10 Jul 2020
The Blue Fuji (1831), Katsushika Hokusai.

Fuji, Land of Snow

A display of prints at the Musée Guimet reveals how Japanese artists have depicted the great mountain across time

10 Jul 2020
Derek Jarman at Prospect Cottage (detail; c. 1990).

Derek Jarman: My garden’s boundaries are the horizon

The Garden Museum is a fitting setting for this exhibition exploring the role of nature in the artist and film-maker’s work

10 Jul 2020
Lac Sevan, Arménie, URSS, 1972 (1972/73), Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Henri-Cartier Bresson: Le Grand Jeu

The French photographer’s chosen ‘Master Set’ of his most important works is the focus at the reopened Palazzo Grassi

3 Jul 2020
School scene (early 16th century), France.

A Window on to Everyday Life

An array of functional objects at the Musée du Cluny shows how medieval people ate, played, prayed, and took care of themselves

3 Jul 2020
Freedom of Worship (detail; 1943), Norman Rockwell.

Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom

Revisiting the American artist’s powerful depictions of human rights at Denver Art Museum

3 Jul 2020
Girl at a Window (detail; 1653–55), Nicolas Maes.

Nicolas Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age

Intriguing domestic scenes by the pupil of Rembrandt go back on show at the reopened National Gallery

3 Jul 2020
The Flight into Egypt, from the Mondsee Altarpiece (detail; c. 1495–99), Master of Mondsee.

The Master of Mondsee

All eight surviving paintings from the lost Mondsee altarpiece are reunited for the first time at the Upper Belvedere

26 Jun 2020
Film still from Dancing at Dusk - A Moment with Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring (2020), Florian Heinzen-Ziob.

Dancing at Dusk – A Moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring

From soil to sand – a pan-African troupe’s performance of the ballet was filmed on the beach in Senegal just before lockdown

26 Jun 2020

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Paris!

This exhibition at the Pompidou considers the formative years the artist duo spent in the French capital

26 Jun 2020

The Glastonbury Festival Archive

With the 50th anniversary edition of the event cancelled, the V&A is hosting an alternative celebration (online)

26 Jun 2020
Dromedary camels, loaded with slabs of salt, on caravan route, Timbuktu, Mali (1971), Eliot Elisofon.

Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time web app

A new digital platform recreates the Block Museum of Art’s display on art and exchange in medieval Africa

19 Jun 2020
Picture of an Old Man (detail; 1435–40), Jan van Eyck.

300 Years Keeping in the Present

A rare drawing by Van Eyck is a highlight in this survey of the Kupferstich-Kabinett’s 300-year history

19 Jun 2020

Deana Lawson: Centropy

The American artist’s intimate photographs of the African diaspora go on show at the Kunsthalle Basel

19 Jun 2020

Curator tour – Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk

A behind-closed-doors visit to the V&A’s display on the evolution of Japan’s national garment

19 Jun 2020
Sixteen heads of men (detail; 18th century), Louis-Léopold Boilly

In the Drawing Room

Four centuries of French drawings from a remarkable private collection – an exhibition at the Petit Palais

12 Jun 2020
Installation view of ‘Katharina Grosse: It Wasn't Us’ at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 2020.

Katharina Grosse: It Wasn’t Us

The reopened Hamburger Bahnhof is transformed inside and out by the German artist’s spray-painted surfaces

12 Jun 2020
Pasted photographs by Gaia Squarci (Prospekt), and Ashely Gilbertson (VII) on Boulevard des Filles du Calvaire, Paris, 2020.

Life During Wartime

A virtual display of contemporary art considers how the world has changed since a pandemic was declared on 5 March

12 Jun 2020
Grave Circle A viewed from South, Mycenae (1920–23), unknown photographer.

Digital Mycenae

Cambridge University Library has digitised a vast archive of material from excavations at the Bronze Age site

12 Jun 2020
The Prince of Wales and Group at the Pyramids, Giza, Egypt (1862), Francis Bedford.

Sights of Wonder: Photographs from the 1862 Royal Tour

A Victorian voyage from Alexandria to Athens is revisited in this online exhibition at the Barber Institute

5 Jun 2020