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

The Canadian artist’s paintings are full of puns and wordplay, but also possess a bodily power

The German painter has made a clear mark with his brutal expression and upended motifs. But what is his legacy?

Probing the legacies of colonialism, Armitage's seductive paintings on East African bark cloth root themselves in a non-European Modernist tradition

He is a global brand, but can a museum show lend Brian Donnelly’s art any credibility?

This urgent and timely show of the Spanish master's works on paper illuminates the artist’s dim view of humanity and his extraordinary imagination

An important show reflects a New York collective’s chronicles of Black life amid pervasive discrimination in the 1960s and 1970s

The London exhibition has many highlights, but viewing this long-planned show is unlike anyone could have envisaged before the coronavirus pandemic

The stimulating show in Rome tells the life story of one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance—but in reverse

Can yet another Warhol retrospective tell us anything new about the Pop Art icon?

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

The latest commission for the Met's Great Hall continues the New York institution's upending of the colonial-settler narrative of American history

With an impressive range of objects, this show evokes the eternal power of the greatest stories ever told

This once in a lifetime retrospective has a freshness and coherence which appeals to public and scholar alike

After a $450m expansion and radical rehang, has the 20th century’s emblematic museum found a place in the 21st?

We take an in-depth look at the London survey of the visionary’s work and round-up what the critics are saying