The Louisiana traces the evolution of the Icelandic artist’s career
The Holburne Museum engages in a clever bit of matchmaking, with rarely shown paintings and all kinds of love tokens
The most expensive manuscript to ever be sold at auction and an impressive collection of Dutch Mannerist prints are among this month’s highlights
The painter of fear and loathing was also a keen observer of the natural world
From Keith Sonnier in Florida to Richard Serra in London, we have put together a list of minimalist masterpieces to see this week
The British Library’s audio-visual tour of the animal kingdom doubles as a weird and wonderful history of natural history
The much-debated new displays suffer from weak artworks, tokenism and terrible lighting
Edward Behrens on the finalists for this year’s Loewe Foundation Craft Prize
This richly coloured glass is a window to a key moment in the history of science and of princely patronage, says the Rijksmuseum’s curator Maartje Brattinga
A publicity shoot for ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’ caught the photographer and his subject at an unusually vulnerable moment
The painter went to great lengths to make her careful compositions look effortlessly spontaneous
The Sainsbury Centre’s new director is taking a more touchy-feely approach to displaying the permanent collection
After a period in the doldrums, pieces by the best 18th-century makers are back in demand
The country has been producing wines for centuries, but they are only now getting the global recognition they deserve
Video art makes the running in the art world – but commercially, it has some catching up to do
Larry Silver’s history of how northern European artists depicted other cultures could have taken a broader view
The novelist Louise Welsh is spooked by the Belgian artist’s menacing ‘Great Judge’
The reconstruction of cities devastated by the Second World War took radically different forms, depending on the circumstances
Plus: Kenneth Anger (1927–2023), UK government plans to extend ivory ban, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The Swedish artist’s wide-ranging practice included tapestry, costume design, painting, film and sculpture
The Albertina Museum considers how painters such as Jacques-Louis David and Henry Fuseli sought to measure themselves against the ancient past
The Louvre makes room for 60 Italian masterpieces from the Museo di Capodimonte
A remarkable bust of Marcus Aurelius makes an exceptional excursion from Switzerland to Los Angeles
Located on the tiny island of San Giorgio, Le Stanze della Fotografia hopes to become a landmark in Italy
