The exhibitions to visit in London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and São Paulo

The Science Museum exhibition will explore the French monarchy’s fascination with scientific observation and experimentation under Louis XIV and XV

In a new exhibition at the King's Gallery, over 160 works will explore how drawing “became the laboratory” for the new Renaissance style

The show explores ancient transnational trade route from China to Central Asia, the Middle East and Western Europe

While Morris is the better known of the two, it is Lett-Haines whose work is ripe for rediscovery says the curator

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

An exhibition at the Garden Museum in London unearths the freedoms that were fostered by outdoor life

A thought-provoking exhibition of work by the late photojournalist the Imperial War Museum

Exhibition will look at the significance of the artist’s career before and after her famed relationship with John Lennon

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art marks centenary of the birth of the city's famous artistic son

We round-up the biggest shows opening each month

The shows to visit in London, New York, Los Angeles, Basel and Paris

The show will emphasise the way Edgar Degas, Claude Monet among others used studies and sketches to push the boundaries of their art

'Poster boy' for the neo-Classical movement who disappeared under the radar eschewed fame for a place in the sun

The company Exhibition on Screen is producing films about artists—and it may have just had a breakthrough with the Dutch artist

An exhibition in Plymouth, near where Reynolds grew up, looks at the stories behind the society figures depicted in his portraits

The Hunterian Museum reopens 16 May, mindful of the changing ethics of displaying human remains

Tate Britain’s exhibition will highlight the Pre-Raphaelite group’s preoccupations with gender and class

A new exhibition at Kettle’s Yard hopes to cement Rie’s status as one of the UK’s leading 20th-century ceramicists

Ashmolean Museum show will reveal how the excavations of its former keeper 100 years ago helped popularise a Minoan world of mythological minotaurs and labyrinths

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Artists from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Nan Goldin are brought together at the Hamburger Kunsthalle to re-examine the stereotype’s origins and new takes

Royal Academy of Arts exhibition includes well known names such as Käthe Kollwitz, as well as equally accomplished, but less famous, artists like Marianne Werefkin

From Cezanne's love of Provence at Tate Modern to cracking the Ancient Egyptian code at the British Museum

Among a slew of shows celebrating 100 years since the artist’s birth, the National Gallery exhibition explores his enduring appeal as a new generation embrace figuration

National Museum of Scotland exhibition will include works by Leonardo and Cornelis Troost as well as the skeleton of the notorious William Burke

Jean Painlevé's documentaries of the secrets of sea life fascinated Man Ray in the 1920s, and are now exhibited at the Jeu de Paume 100 years later

Art That Made Us winds through the centuries, exploring the cultural effects of landmark historical events such as the Black Death and the First World War

Famed for his discovery of Troy, an exhibition at the James-Simon-Galerie and Neues Museum unpicks fact from fiction

Exhibition, which will travel to the Petit Palais in Paris, examines the profound influence Degas, Manet and Bonnard had on the artist and his work