The French president’s wife tests her dramatic chops in the latest season of Emily in Paris, even though the show is now flirting with Rome – and her husband couldn’t be happier
The artist’s portraits of socialites in Paris in the 1920s and ’30s are the main draw at the de Young Museum – but she took on other subjects, too
Rubens was the most successful artist of his day, but he wasn’t doing it all on his own, as this exhibition at the Prado makes abundantly clear
The artist turns curator in an exhibition that makes connections between Britain’s imperial past and the contents of the British Museum
The most famous landscape in British art is the centre of attention in a display to mark the National Gallery’s bicentenary
The sculptor’s witty animal-like sculptures are dotted around the grounds of his house in the Cotswolds – and they feel right at home there
These four artworks show how the imagination – the incubator of all human creativity – can be drawn on to conjure entirely new worlds
The New-York Historical Society weaves together personal and social histories by assembling all manner of garments, from workwear to rebelwear
Printing is found throughout art history – and often in the places you least expect it, as Jennifer L. Roberts demonstrates in her highly original new book
A play about Harry Beck, creator of London Underground map we still use today, shows just how tricky it was to land on the perfect design
Plus: the subversive art of Kapwani Kiwanga, Georgie Hopton’s delightful prints and a brief history of drawing on blue paper
Plus: the Sikh Empire under Ranjit Singh, the trailblazing art of Lygia Clark and the serene ceramics of Magdalene Odundo
Plus: the light sculptures of Anthony McCall, paintings by Frank Auerbach and his teacher David Bomberg, and Nordic nature scenes
Plus: playful sculptures by Nairy Baghramian, revelatory paintings by Van Gogh, and the changing nature of beauty through the ages
Curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev explains how the artist’s Venus of the Rags embodies the innovative spirit of the Italian movement
A new study breaks down viewers’ reactions to Vermeer’s most famous work – a welcome reminder that artists have long had stratagems for seducing the eye
In Houston, the artist lets chance guide her hand in a series of drawings on paper and found materials, accompanied by several earlier works and a set of 16mm films
Works by Rembrandt and his student Samuel van Hoogstraten are hung alongside each other in Vienna to demonstrate their similarities and differences
The Italian artist’s bold experiments with geometric shapes are the subject of a comprehensive survey at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s striking scene is the centrepiece of this show at the Minneapolis Institute of Art about Paris nightlife in the 19th century
Plus: climate activists acquitted in Manchester, Hammer Museum appoints Zoë Ryan as its new director, and researchers find 7th-century throne room in Peru
To mark 50 years since the death of the poet Anne Sexton, we look at four artworks that demonstrate how women poets have long been a source of inspiration for artists
The art world is changing fast, but fostering a new generation of young collectors remains a challenge for the market to overcome
When working in her suntrap of a studio in Rome, the artist enjoys people-watching, listening to jazz and admiring an antique manhole cover made of travertine
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