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The Sala del Doge is among the most spectacular rooms at the Palazzo Grimani in Venice. It was conceived by Giovanni Grimani as an homage to his grandfather Antonio, first doge of the family, and completed in 1568; decked out with alabaster, serpentine and porphyry, the room housed part of the famed Grimani collection of Greek and Roman sculpture. From 19 May–27 November 2022, the room returns to (something like) its former glory – new analysis of Giovanni Grimani’s inventories and other historical materials have allowed curators at the Museum of the Palazzo Grimani to relocate 20 class...

Eileen Agar played a key role in the Surrealist movement during the 1930s – this large survey at the Whitechapel Gallery (19 May–29 August) shows the range of her influences. She drew on everything from Cubism to classical sculpture in works that ranged from painting to found-object assemblages. With some 150 works, the display traces her seven-decade career from her early years studying at the Slade through to her inclusion in André Breton’s ‘International Surrealist Exhibition’ of 1936, and the prolific and varied output that followed. Find out more from the Whitechapel’s webs...

This display will explore the turbulent life and death of Thomas Becket, who rose from relatively humble origins to the position of Archbishop of Canterbury before coming into conflict with Henry II over the balance of power between Church and State. His murder in 1170 – whether on the orders of the king remains a bone of historical contention – sent shockwaves through England and beyond; his spilt blood was reported to have miraculous powers of healing, and before long he had been canonised by Pope Alexander III. At the heart of the display of more than 100 artefacts is the unprecedented...

The Scottish painter Joan Eardley (1921–63) first visited the small Aberdeenshire fishing village of Catterline in 1950, shortly after graduating from art school; for the rest of her life, she divided her time between Glasgow and the North East. She was entranced both by the village and by the ‘vast seas, vast areas of cliff’ beyond it, which she depicted in her vivid, gestural landscapes – completed outdoors in habitually inclement conditions. This display at the recently reopened National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh (from 16 May) includes nine oil paintings and 13 works on pa...

Many museums remain closed, but at least spring has sprung. This week’s Apollo Art Diary picks out four arty gardens to enjoy…  Yayoi Kusama’s artistic work owes much to her engagement with the natural world; as a child she would spend hours among the fields of her family’s seed nursery in Matsumoto. In this display at New York Botanical Garden (until 31 October), early works such as her  Narcissus Garden (1966) are installed amid the flowers; there are also two new monumental sculptures,  Dancing Pumpkin and I Want to Fly to the Universe, and her hallucinatory ‘obliteration...