At RIBA a film by Jim Stephenson shows that architecture can have a long and unpredictable afterlife
Real archaeologists are probably right to regard their famous fictional colleague as a renegade, but he’s a useful reminder of what not to do on a dig
Plus: French artist Claude Lévêque is charged with rape and the Hermitage Amsterdam is changing its name
Kettle’s Yard explores the historical life and contemporary significance of this rich tradition
The Spanish artist fills the Hamburger Bahnhof with her fleshy sculptural forms
An impressive collection of works on paper drawn from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s collections explores humankind’s relationship to nature
The Museum Barberini in Potsdam considers how 19th-century Dutch painters took cues from techniques being developed in France
A rare 17th-century portrait of a Black woman and a white woman and an illustrated Armenian manuscript are among this month’s highlights
How artists have depicted homosexuality at various points in history
The artist’s remarkable paintings of women are also a form of self-exposure
The performance artist uses paint, props and a nude cast of actors to make her point
The axeing of 37 museum posts will force overstretched employees to work harder and make institutions shelve their grander plans
The Chrysler Museum of Art has given a looted monolith back to Nigeria and received a facsimile in exchange. Will other institutions follow suit?
Research proves that viewers linger longest over the torments in Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. What that says about humanity, God only knows.
Plus: Austrian government proposes new restitution laws and the rest of the week’s top stories
Works drawn from the collections at Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester offer an insight the life and work of the German Renaissance master
On the centenary of the artist’s birth, the Art Institute of Chicago looks at a lesser-known aspect of his practice
For the conceptual artist from New York, a show in County Wexford is a chance to focus on what it means to look – and to be looked at
The mystical associations and strange rituals of the summer solstice have captured the imaginations of artists for centuries
The trailblazing Austrian performance artist gets her biggest retrospective to date
The painter drew on wide range of influences to create his ethereal landscapes
A record-breaking Klimt at Sotheby’s has put the marketing machine in overdrive, but quieter joys can be found elsewhere in the capital
At the heart of a memorable but uneven event is the struggle to remember the transatlantic slave trade in appropriate ways
The museum has reopened with a new entrance and a complete rehang of the collection – but there’s no getting away from its founding purpose
