We round-up the biggest shows opening each month

The Musée d’Orsay hopes the restoration of ‘A Burial at Ornans’—once a Salon scandal, now a pride of the Paris museum—will unlock some of its secrets and reveal the painting to be even bigger and bolder than it appears now

Notre-Dame may have started out as a Gothic cathedral, but over the centuries it has morphed into a civic emblem and leading tourist attraction—it has also become a reliable muse for painters, photographers and more

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is returning the favour and lending one of its works after showing the Frick’s Vermeers in its blockbuster exhibition last year

Featuring 82 works by 26 artists, this New York show tells the story of the short-lived style and its main protagonists

The exhibition across three venues in the Netherlands will include new findings and the artist's restored masterpiece, Saint Luke Painting the Madonna

An exhibition at the London museum, organised with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, brings together masterpieces by the likes of Duccio and Simone

Whether you're looking for a culture hit while taking in the Olympics or strolling along the Seine on a weekend break, make sure not to miss out on these masterpieces in the City of Light

As the palace grounds host Olympic and Paralympic equine events, an exhibition of horse works by the likes of Leonardo, Rubens and Géricault will grace the interiors

The Renaissance marble structure, which is still used to baptise newborns, has been returned to its original splendour—thanks to porcupine quills and 3-D printers

New show will bring to life the story of the mixed-race Caribbean artist who mentored Ingres and Rousseau

From Precious Okoyomon's nightmarish animatronic bear to a global survey of Black figurative painting, sci-fi chairs and Dan Flavin

The Belgian artist’s four large wall paintings reference a lost 1990 work of his called 'The Orphan', and will remain in place for a year

British Museum show focuses on the final three decades of the Italian master’s life

Sandra Gamarra Heshiki references 17th-century European paintings in her investigations of Spain’s colonial past and its ongoing repercussions

Show focuses on the golden age of collecting between France and China in the 17th and 18th centuries

The exhibition in Beijing of 17th- and 18th-century objects from the Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles will look at how artisans on opposite sides of the world influenced each other

The German artist defied easy categorisation but exhibitions at MoMA and the Städel Museum aim to shine a light on the importance of her work

This curatorial triumph highlights the measured artificiality of the German Romantic artist who made work that still mesmerises

A new exhibition will explore the Belgian artist’s later works, including his little-known ballet, as part of Belgium’s year-long commemoration of the 75th anniversary of his death

Touring show seeks to 'de-exoticise' the predominant narrative

We round-up the biggest shows opening each month

Exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art draws parallels between the geopolitical shifts after the First World War and what the artists of new nations were making

The exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery will display rarely shown drawings, while the Städel Museum survey will show what might be the artist’s oldest known painting

The artist’s portraits will be shown at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston alongside the clothes worn by his glamorous subjects

Two exhibitions, in Boston and Baltimore, celebrate the overlooked women artists who were working in Europe from the 15th century onwards

The septuagenarian artist, best known for her large-scale wire rope installations, has experienced a resurgence of attention from institutions and curators in recent years

Cooper Hewitt in New York celebrates the creator of vibrant mid-century Modern textiles

An exhibition at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin explores the "secessions" in three key European cities

From Lauren Halsey's new commission for the Met rooftop to funkily subversive sculptures at the Museum of Arts and Design, the season's essential exhibitions