Reuniting the surviving sections of the city’s altarpiece marvel is just the start of this important, beautifully staged show at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

A magnificent show with important and rarely seen loans that highlight the Dutch artist’s astonishing achievements in Provence

From her Manhattan skyscraper studio, the grande dame of American Modernism painted the city below with aplomb

In the absence of large-scale works, the London show focuses instead on the objects that reveal the artist’s deepening spirituality

This survey frames Cassatt—once dismissed as a lightweight painter of pretty portraits—as a skilful examiner of private realms

A show studded with masterpieces by the Dutch-American Abstract Expressionist—but the Italian connection is tenuous

An arresting and endearing retrospective of the trailblazing performance artist that you will want to see again and again

A retrospective of Ono’s pioneering and provocative work shows that she is not quite the artist you might have imagined

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

Andy Warhol the colourist stars in a stand-out exhibition that offers fresh perspectives on curating the world's most familiar artist

An array of artefacts show how cultural cross-pollination thrived across centuries and continents under Byzantine rule

The long-delayed London survey is a revelatory tour de force that charts the twists and turns of the Canadian-American artist's 50-year career

The past, playfulness and power of words are threaded throughout the Pop artist’s retrospective of more than 200 works

The hugely popular English artist has, in this retrospective, set out his case as a chronicler of the British psyche

A powerful retrospective of the New York-born artist that is all too timely in its examination of racism in American culture

Bold pairings of paintings by the contemporary German artist with those of the Old Masters are both provocative and elegiac

A baffling show in which Pablo Picasso’s works become accessories for the British designer Paul Smith’s decorations

Oblique views of London, Caribbean memories and poetic etchings highlight the itinerant artist’s flair for reinvention

A less-is-more approach to the biggest ever exhibition of the Dutch Old Master’s paintings makes this blockbuster a triumph

The show takes a "maniacal and majestic" triptych as its departure point, before using a skilful combination of works and personal effects to provide a deep understanding of the German artist

The painter’s masterpieces show that his influences stretched beyond Venice and at times touch on the miraculous.

New York's Just Above Midtown gallery launched the careers of numerous artists of colour, and this five-star exhibition about it is a celebration of the power of art

While her New York peers were fighting over the future of abstraction, Alice Neel was urgently capturing life

The American artist was a brilliant colourist who pushed figuration to its limits but never went the way of “the abstract boys”. Plus, what the other critics said about the show

The Los Angeles artist’s exploration of the Black experience in the US can be poignant, humorous and unsettling, as evidenced in her solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

The climate theme of this year’s exhibition rings hollow

An intoxicating summer exhibition focuses on five abstract artists—Megan Rooney, Sam Gilliam, Steven Parrino, Niele Toroni and Katharina Grosse. But the chromatic emphasis denies broader interpretations of their work

This unrepeatable show, spread across the Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazionale del Bargello, reflects the Florentine master’s journey from late Gothic elegance to classical sensuality

A show shaped by refugees and immigrants who made new lives on British shores has a war-stained resonance with today

Each work in the Harlem-born artist’s biggest retrospective to date deserves equal attention