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
The art journalist’s prized collection of handbags and eclectic furniture is up for sale at Bellmans later this month
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
A crowded display sees some 150 works of Abstract Expressionism clamouring for attention, but perhaps this is the point
The desirability of getting a day job in a museum can make it easy for prestigious institutions to take advantage of the artists who work in them
As the 12th secretary of state for culture in the UK takes up their post, Rakewell spots at least one thing they all have in common
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
Plus: a shake-up at DCMS, strengthening cultural ties between France and Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the week’s art news
The artist takes her Golden Lion-winning work celebrating the extraordinary achievements of Black women in music from Venice to the English seaside
The painter’s characterful portraits shine a light on marginalised individuals in 20th-century New York
A portrait of the 17th-century polymath and intellectual superstar Paolo Sarpi hangs in a corner of a house that once belonged to a wealthy tyrant
The Norwegian American’s trippy sculptures are cult classics in the making
The weird lighting in the artist’s studio sometimes makes her feel like she’s in tropical fish tank, but her dog Mary makes sure she gets out for walks every day
The luxury conglomerate led by the French tycoon presented a Caillebotte to the Musée d’Orsay this week, but that didn’t stop him being denounced by pension protesters
Plus: UNESCO puts Odesa on its list of endangered sites and the fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died at the age of 88
The Louisiana Museum of Art offers a rare opportunity to see works spanning the entirety of the American artist’s career
A series of rarely exhibited woodblock prints by the late Brazilian artist go on show at the Art Institute of Chicago
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam brings together more than 28 masterpieces in the biggest ever presentation of the painter’s work
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford unearths the mysteries of the Bronze Age civilisation in Crete
A first for the Frick and a Caillebotte at the Musée d'Orsay are among the most important works to enter museum collections this month
