We speak to Gabriele Finaldi about the challenges of opening a show at the time of coronavirus and to its curator about this extraordinary series of paintings. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793

The exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery unites 150 images, including rarely exhibited photographs of his sisters Nancy and Baba

Exhibition at Galléria dell'Academia will be first time public can see artist's works using the controversial Vantablack material

Exhibition at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand will kick off a year of shows celebrating the influence of dance on artists

Near-forgotten series of striking portraits are part of a 100-strong show of works opening at the London museum this week

National Gallery of Canada cites use of forced labour on royal estates in wartime

The masterpieces produced for Philip II will go on show at London's National Gallery before touring to Edinburgh, Madrid and Boston

An emergency decree means that all museums in the country are on lock down until 3 April

Free exhibition at the London museum in October will show around 150 works that have been collected since the early 1990s

From the Hayward Gallery's expansive group show about trees to the erotic underbelly of the Victorian era at Tate Britain

Princeton show charts the artist’s enduring pursuit of geological compositions

The Basel exhibition on the painter's landscapes takes a fresh look at the American icon

The Madrid exhibition will feature 101 cases made from materials such as carved wood and velvet

Messums Wiltshire bought the building last year and will now reconstruct it for an exhibition in its gallery—at a cost of £100,000

The biennial's 17th edition will now only run for three months rather than six

We ask the artist about his favourite novels and find out about the Polish song he listens to on repeat

Survey at the Scuderie del Quirinale is jointly organised by the Uffizi in Florence and will focus on the Renaissance master's crucial Roman period

The 20 artists taking part have been announced, with major installations heading for the seaside town

Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts hopes to raise awareness of the German sculptor whose work was dismissed by critics as "craft"

Rochester Art Center engages with Soomaal House of Art at a time of rising anti-immigrant rhetoric

British illustrator’s only known paintings—on front and back of the same canvas—will be displayed for the first time in new exhibition

From David Hockney's portraits to a photography show radically rethinking masculinity

Restored work—with “Artemisia” signature—will be shown by conservation studio during major National Gallery exhibition

Plus, Independent Art Fair's director on New York's changing gallery landscape. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793

Twenty institutions in 12 cities are planning exhibitions and events for 100th anniversary of Joseph Beuys’s birth

From Kevin Jerome Everson's videos of working-class displacement to Donna Huanca's wet slit—the best new commercial exhibitions this month

Japanese government instructs national art museums to close for two weeks — shutting the door on London’s National Gallery travelling show, on the eve of opening

The committee had advised against moving Raphael’s portrait of Pope Leo X; the museum loaned it to Rome’s Scuderie del Quirinale regardless

The exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, featuring 70 works made between 1960 and 1992, will trace the artist's development by focusing on key turning points in his career