Inspired by the Korean boy band’s latest album, the museum is courting a new fan base with a special tour of its Korea gallery
Plus: the Manhattan DA’s office has returned 59 antiquities to Italy, Iraq and Indonesia; and thieves have stolen €4m-worth of jewellery from the Lalique Museum in northeastern France
The painter had a knack for making enemies and, as this exhibition at Museum Folkwang makes clear, his art was all the better for it
Tate Modern celebrates an avant-garde artist who, for all the forward-thinking nature of her art, was most interested in age-old, elemental forces
Whitechapel Gallery is marking its 125th anniversary with a biennial that is taking place across east London. Can it help the gallery find a new generation of art lovers?
The Spanish baroque master’s magnetic paintings get their moment in the London sun
Before she became a novelist, the writer studied architecture – and even made and acted in a film about idealistic students who want to do things their way
A host of remarkable pre-modern works, sold last week at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, have broken several auction records
Folk art is getting a moment in the sun at MoMA – inviting the question of why these artists don’t feature in the museum’s permanent displays
Barnaby Phillips’s new book follows the many twists and turns of the royal treasures Britain took from the Asante kingdom
Plus: the Manhattan DA’s office seizes more antiquities from the Met; and the president of MUCEM in Marseille has been suspended after being accused of harassment
A show about Peggy Guggenheim’s time running a gallery in London could have a touch more fun with its subject
A performance artist couple snuck up to the top of the Empire State Building this week, which reminds Rakewell that artists have long sought inspiration in high places
The Cleveland Museum of Art sheds light on how early engravers mastered their art – and how prints came to conquer western Europe
For the first time in nearly 70 years the Minneapolis Institute of Art displays the largest Italian Renaissance artwork in the United States
The photographer’s talent for infusing the textures of everyday Mexican life with a fantastical sensibility is on full display at SFMOMA
MoMA explores how newly liberated nations expressed their independence through architecture from the late ’50s to the early ’80s
The Scottish artist may not currently have a physical studio, but finds her dining room table to be a useful alternative
The C Comics drawn by the artist with words by New York School writers are a call to unconformity
To mark 72 years since rationing ended in the UK, we look at four works of art and design that capture our relationship with food
A biblical scene by Lavinia Fontana and a huge collection of Palestinian textiles are among the most exciting objects to enter public collections recently
The Musée du Quai Branly is 20 this year. It has long aspired to be a place of post-colonial dialogue between cultures. Is this finally becoming a reality?
The New York Historical has been charting America’s history for more than two centuries. What does a brand new wing dedicated to democracy add to the story?
From the World Cup to the semiquincentennial of the US Declaration of Independence, flag-waving is in the air this summer
