If you’ve ever wanted to curate your own museum, pretend to be a Medici patron or infiltrate the Louvre, these are the games for you
The artist mixed making abstract sculpture with populist public commissions. As her reputation soars, her generosity of spirit is as apparent as her inventiveness
Plus: Sotheby’s has returned gems linked to the Buddha to India; and the artist, playwright and theatre director Robert Wilson has died at the age of 83
The Star Wars mogul has always had an unusual approach to collecting, but his new museum makes clear that his art is in the right place
Les Plaisirs du bal is a masterpiece set apart by its meticulous, poetic handling of light and shade
These 30 vivid watercolours at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. capture the grandeur and variety of the American landscape
The Ashmolean presents the fruits of the 30-year collaboration between the artist and the Radiohead singer
Cats have left their mark – sometimes literally – on manuscripts from all over the world, as this show at the Walters Art Museum reveals
Revered by the Impressionists, this master of light and atmosphere gets a survey at the National Gallery in London
By constantly reworking her carefully chosen surfaces, the Azerbaijani artist captures something very real about the workings of personal and cultural memory
After an avant-garde start, the Australian painter upped sticks to rural New South Wales and began painting life on the farm
Wasps have a terrible image problem but a new exhibition highlighting their design abilities should help us get over our horror
The artist’s sculptures and installations acknowledge and stand up to the lavish interiors of the Galleria Borghese in equal measure
The architectural historian will be remembered for his great wit and erudition, opennness of mind and deep love of the capital
The story of how the painter’s ‘degenerate’ works did or didn’t return to Berlin’s Nationalgalerie makes for a gripping show
The satirist who combined musical wit with erudition, political conscience and pure silliness has died at the age of 97
Many of the 81-year-old photographer’s images were made when even taking a camera to the streets was an act of resistance in Chile
The Colorado art fair continues to expand, with local art taking centre stage in its largest edition yet
Plus: Amy Sherald cancels show at Smithsonian and the US withdraws from UNESCO again
Depictions of Christ’s ascent to heaven often manage to be both deadly serious and upliftingly silly
At their best, dioramas make for a lively union of disparate artistic disciplines – and are often stuffed full of creature comforts
Photographs and colonial documents are overlaid with Aboriginal dot paintings at Whitby Museum in Yorkshire
The Bundeskunsthalle honours the richness of Wim Wenders’ film-making – and features an audio walkthrough by the director himself
Canadian and Scandinavian artists have long been drawn to the beauty of boreal forests, as this exhibition at the Buffalo AKG attests
