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The duchess who scandalised Spain

The Liria Palace in Madrid is paying tribute to its late, great owner in the form of installations by Joana Vasconcelos

The Black artists who found themselves in post-war Paris

The Pompidou presents African, Caribbean and American artists who could be free in the French capital in ways often denied to them at home

Armchair travel in the Middle Ages

At the Morgan Library in New York, a selection of guides to foreign lands reveals a bustling Middle Ages full of fantastical visions

A new dawn for the art of South African wine labels

The Hazendal Wine Estate has begun inviting artists to design the labels for a new series of sparkling wines – and the results fizz with creativity

The sensational designs of Alphonse Mucha

In his posters and illustrations the art nouveau artist fused Slavic motifs with Japanese influences to create a style that was truly cutting-edge

Antoni Gaudí, God’s architect?

Pope Francis has set Catalonia’s architect-in-chief on the path to sainthood, but if the Sagrada Família is anything to go by, we could be in for a long wait

Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction

Some 150 works by such luminaries as Ed Rossbach, Yayoi Kusama and Ruth Asawa put a different spin on the history of abstract art

Remnants

Fifteen works of art depicting Apartheid-era South Africa in photography, prints and a painting go on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Art

Edi Hila | Thea Djordjadze

Paintings by one of the great chroniclers of communist and post-Soviet Albania are displayed alongside site-specific works by the younger, Georgian artist Thea Djordjazde

The World of King James VI and I

The National Galleries of Scotland pull out all the stops in exploring the life and times of the Stuart king

The very smart cars of Ettore Bugatti

With its sensuous design and sleek fittings, the Bugatti 57C Vanvooren – like many of the manufacturer’s models – has become a style icon

The Frick Collection makes a triumphant return to Fifth Avenue

The beloved New York museum is reopening its doors after a four-year refurbishment – and there’s more to delight the public than ever before

When a picture looks good enough to eat

This chronicle of iconophagy – the act of consuming an image – is an enlightening if occasionally stodgy read

In the studio with… A.A. Murakami

The married artists live in rural Japan, surrounded by the clacking of bamboo in the forest and the sights of misty hills

How two artists have weathered one stormy marriage

The ups and downs in the lives of photographer Joel Meyerowitz and the writer and artist Maggie Barrett makes for documentary dynamite

Munch behind the mask

Self-portraits and depictions of family and friends build a picture of the ‘Scream’ artist as insider rather than outsider, more savvy than angsty

On the eggcentricities of Hitchcock and Dalí

The Psycho director may have hated them, but for those who aren’t as easily shell-shocked, eggs can crack open a whole new world

Art Dubai opens a gateway to the future

The biggest art fair in the Middle East is highlighting projects from the Global South and offering alternatives to Western traditions of displaying art

National Endowment for the Humanities funds intended for Trump sculpture park

Plus: the global value of art sales has fallen by 12 per cent, and Pierre Terjanian will be the next director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

What Wellington bought after Waterloo

An exhibition of the Dutch paintings the 1st Duke of Wellington purchased in Paris reveals another aspect of an extraordinary life

A €37,500 cocktail to leave even a king shaken and stirred

To mark its 260th birthday Baccarat has mixed a €37,000 cocktail, which would make even Louis XV, who granted the crystal-maker its warrant, pause before drinking up

Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers

Filling the rotunda of the Guggenheim in New York, this survey of the protean American artist captures his verve, bite and intellectual range

Tarō Okamoto: Reinventing Japan

One of the most distinctive Japanese artists of the 20th century gets a survey in Paris, the city that shaped his art and worldview in the 1930s

Jennie C. Jones: Ensemble

The American minimalist has always been fascinated by sound, and is now bringing her string-instrument sculptures to the Met’s rooftop