We look at the year ahead for galleries, art fairs and auctions, with our market editors Anna Brady and Margaret Carrigan and seek out the big shows in the UK, Europe and the US with our contemporary art correspondent Louisa Buck and exhibitions editor José da Silva.
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Dates and full venue details for the exhibitions discussed, in the order they are mentioned:
Helsinki Biennial, 12 June–27 September
Glasgow International, 24 April-10 May
Liverpool Biennial: the Stomach and the Port, 11 July-25 October
Raphael, National Gallery, London, 3 October-24 January 2021
Artemisia, National Gallery, 6 April-26 July
Titian: Love, Desire, Death: National Gallery, 16 March-14 June; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 11 July-27 September; Prado Museum, Madrid, 20 October-10 Jan 2021; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, begins February 2021
British Surrealism, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 26 February–17 May
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, Whitechapel Gallery, 6 February-10 May
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Tate Britain, London, 19 May-31 August; Guggenheim, Bilbao, 25 September-31 January 2021; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2021
Aubrey Beardsley: Tate Britain, 4 March-25 May; Musee d’Orsay, Paris, 15 June-13 September
Zanele Muholi: Tate Modern, 29 April-18 October; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, 4 November-14 February 2021; Gropius Bau, Berlin, March-July 2021; Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden, October 2021- March 2022
Steve McQueen: Tate Modern, 13 February-11 May; Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 29 October-28 February 2021
Andy Warhol: Tate Modern, 12 March-6 September; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 10 October-21 February 2021
Bruce Nauman: Tate Modern, 6 October-17 January; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 13 February-23 May 2021
Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography: Barbican Art Gallery, February 20-17 May; Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles 29 June-20 September; Gropius-Bau, Berlin 16 October-10 January 2021
Van Eyck: an Optical Revolution, The Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 1 February-30 April
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Paris! Centre Pompidou, Paris, 18 March-15 June
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, 19 September-4 October
Goya, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, 17 May-16 August
Donald Judd, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1 March-11 July
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945, Whitney Museum of American Art, 17 February–17 May
Philip Guston Now: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 7 June-13 September; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 18 October-18 January 2021; Tate Modern, London, 17 February 2021-13 June 2021; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 17 July 2021-17 October 2021
Gerhard Richter: The Met Breuer, New York, 4 March-5 July; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 14 August–19 January 2021
Judy Chicago: a Retrospective, De Young Museum, San Francisco, 9 May-6 September