Plus: new appointments at the National Gallery of Ireland and RIBA, Design Miami Paris cancelled amid security fears, and Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan museum
The students at Imperial College London are objecting to the sculptor’s ‘phallic’ new sculpture, proving that an outsize reputation isn’t everything
The British sculptor's monumental, minimal forms drew influence from his wide-ranging collection of ethnographic artefacts
Bruno Vandermeulen and Danny Veys use 19th-century processes to bring a very modern sensibility to archaeological sites in Anatolia
The Mexican artist's studio is filled with books and tiny pieces of detritus that have fallen off her artworks or that she finds on her travels
Long before the invention of the visitor-response survey, the writer was curious about how works of art affected their viewers
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park looks beyond the ‘LOVE’ sculptures to explore Indiana's long and varied career
The artist’s intimate and revealing sculptures are tucked away among the woodlands of Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh
The Kenyan-born artist’s fantastical bronzes are set amid rolling hills of the Storm King Art Center in New York
Alex Da Corte's whimsical construction takes up residence on the Louisiana's terrace
Plus: Long-running dispute between Dmitry Rybolovlev and Yves Bouvier enters new phase and British geologist’s conviction for smuggling antiquities overturned
The pop star’s latest album contains fewer treats for art-history buffs than its title promises – but Rakewell is too busy dancing to care
Romain Duris cuts a dash in a lavish French film about the engineer, but it’s the tower that’s the true star
There’s no disguising the gruesomeness of the trade that underpinned the scientific advances of the 18th century
In the works of Raphael the Virgin Mary often plays a more active and more joyful role than she is allowed by other artists
Piranesi may have fallen out with his Irish patron but, in modern-day Dublin, artists inspired by his example are looking to mend fences
Downtime is important for the artist in downtown Los Angeles, who has a figurine from a children’s television show keep watch over their studio
The V&A’s director Tristram Hunt has floated the idea of changing the law to allow national museums to make permanent returns. Robert Hewison advises treading very carefully
Who is the subject of the painter’s cryptically titled ‘Madame C d’A’? Tessa Murdoch looks for clues among his most progressive patrons
Plus: Documenta director resigns in anti-Semitism row, Italian authorities stop Artemisia sale in Vienna and New York DA’s office returns 142 artefacts to Italy
Bringing the European bison to Kent is intended to do wonders for the woodland, but Rakewell can’t help wondering if art needs rewilding too
Since the invention of the medium, photography has always had an ambiguous relationship with architecture
The exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art revels in the photographer’s love of the Californian landscape
The Scottish National Gallery celebrates the Scottish collectors who were quick to appreciate the Impressionists
