An ornate tea service that was given to the Emperor as a wedding gift and his real-life tomb in Paris are among this week’s highlights
Our hand-picked selection of ancient Egyptian treasures includes a breastplate once worn by an actual pharaoh and a glittering golden crocodile
The capital of the Shang Dynasty is home to the country’s earliest surviving written records
The artist brings his scrapyard sculpture to the Hayward gallery
Gardens have long been seen as symbols of freedom and paradise, as this display in Stockholm makes clear
The Art Institute of Chicago considers the contradictory impulses that governed the Spanish surrealist during the 1930s
The German artist’s unsettling images examine the uncanny relationship between visual culture and collective memory
Two ornamental sets of vases owned by Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette of France go on show at the Getty Center in Los Angeles
The Whitechapel Gallery brings together 150 paintings by 81 international women artists
The painter’s characterful portraits shine a light on marginalised individuals in 20th-century New York
