“In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States” at LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Through May 6

LACMA offers a fresh and, until now, largely unexplored perspective on surrealism. With a significant amount of works by Frida Kahlo and pieces by Louise Bourgeois, Dorthea Tanning, Lee Miller, and others, this wild show proves that Surrealism's female contingent won't stay quiet.

LONDON

Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern, Bankside, London, Opening February 9

The iconic Japanese artist has her largest exhibition in England to date with this massive spectacle at the Tate Modern. Expect a perceptual funhouse — works from the “Infinity Net” series, with their mind-expanding, endless dots, may make viewers feel as if they’re spinning into space.

Joan Mitchell's The Last Paintings at Hauser & Wirth, 196A Piccadilly, London

Made during the last ten years of Mitchell’s life, these abstract expressionist works are distinctly different from her other pieces. With bright hues and fluid brushwork, they are perfect translations of Mitchell’s emotions to canvas.

Lucian Freud's Portraits at National Portrait Gallery London, St. Martin’s Place, London, Opening February 9

This exhibition, composed with the help of the artist himself, is the first with a focus on his portraiture. Imagery of close family, friends, and loved ones will grace the walls of the National Portrait Gallery to honor, as Freud has said, the “people in my life.”

MONTREAL

Ghada Amer at Musee d’Art Contemporain Montreal, 185 Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Montreal, Opening February 2

Recent works by the edgy Egyptian artist who merges pornography and high art through the delicate process of embroidery are on view in this Montreal exhibition.

TOKYO

Lee Bul at Mori Art Museum, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower (53F), 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Opening February 4

Lee Bul showcases his anything-but-static works that rotate, twist, and glimmer — the pieces could very well have been conceived in the dreams of science-fiction writers like H.G. Wells and Frank Herbert.

BREGENZ

Yvonne Rainer at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Karl-Tizian-Platz, Bregenz, Opening February 4

In the first retrospective survey of Rainer’s dance, performance, film, and collaborative work in Europe, viewers will not only have access to photographs, documentation of stage work, dance scores and scripts, but will also have the rare chance to see the artist perform live.

BEIJING

Xu Longsen at Beyond Art Space, 798 East St., 798 Art District, No. 4, Jiuxianqiao Rd., Chaoyang District, Beijing, Opening February 18

Longsen’s scroll-inspired works on paper are serenely beautiful and maintain clarity of form despite their abstraction. His swooping mountainscapes on rice paper are stripped to their bare essentials.

WIEN

Claus Oldenburg's “The Sixties” at Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Museums Quartier, Museumsplatz 1, A-1070, Wien, Opening February 4

This exhibition of Oldenburg’s work from the 1960s includes his piece “The Store” alongside the humorous “Mouse Museum” — which contains 385 trinkets held within a miniature walk-through museum in the shape of a geometric mouse.

RIDGEFIELD

Xu Bing’s “Tobacco Project” at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main St., Ridgefield, Through June 10

Xu Bing takes his inspiration from tobacco for this sculpture project, but the artist engages its sociopolitical meaning rather than taking a match to it.