The best art and architecture of 2023

Photo: Wolfgang Kreische/Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Adrian Searle's best art shows of 2023
5. Vermeer

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Johannes Vermeer attracted more than half a million visitors to the Rijksmuseum between February and June this year. Not bad for an artist who produced only about 37 known paintings in a twenty-year period between 1654 and 1674. An exhibition of quiet intimacies and domestic mysteries, beautifully appointed and spread across 10 rooms, 28 of which are mostly small, interior scenes and occasionally street views were presented in this intoxicating exhibition, the largest ever of the artist's work.

Serpentine Galleries, London