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Gwen John bares it all at Pallant House
The artist’s remarkable paintings of women are also a form of self-exposure
Body politics – an interview with Florence Peake
The performance artist uses paint, props and a nude cast of actors to make her point
Glasgow’s cuts will hamper its museums for years to come
The axeing of 37 museum posts will force overstretched employees to work harder and make institutions shelve their grander plans
Will replicas tempt museums to return looted objects more quickly?
The Chrysler Museum of Art has given a looted monolith back to Nigeria and received a facsimile in exchange. Will other institutions follow suit?
Hell is more compelling than heaven, say scientists
Research proves that viewers linger longest over the torments in Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. What that says about humanity, God only knows.
Douglas Latchford estate forfeits $12m to settle looted antiquities case
Plus: Austrian government proposes new restitution laws and the rest of the week’s top stories
Albrecht Dürer’s material world
Works drawn from the collections at Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester offer an insight the life and work of the German Renaissance master
Ellsworth Kelly: Portrait Drawings
On the centenary of the artist’s birth, the Art Institute of Chicago looks at a lesser-known aspect of his practice
For Anne Collier, the eyes definitely have it
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
Four things to see: Midsummer
The mystical associations and strange rituals of the summer solstice have captured the imaginations of artists for centuries
Valie Export: Retrospective
The trailblazing Austrian performance artist gets her biggest retrospective to date
Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances
The painter drew on wide range of influences to create his ethereal landscapes
Portraits get seriously high-profile at the London auctions this month
A record-breaking Klimt at Sotheby’s has put the marketing machine in overdrive, but quieter joys can be found elsewhere in the capital
Rites and rituals take centre stage at the Liverpool Biennial
At the heart of a memorable but uneven event is the struggle to remember the transatlantic slave trade in appropriate ways
What does the National Portrait Gallery say about Britain today?
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
The guiding hand of Hugo van der Goes
The Netherlandish painter is a master of directing viewers to the telling detail
Around the galleries – Treasure House sets out its stall in London
From the ashes of Masterpiece rises an ambitious and even more selective successor
Is Istanbul Modern living in the past?
The newly reopened museum has an impressive collection of Turkish art, but seems strangely disconnected from the present
The seaside gallery that aims to be more than a tourist destination
East Quay is an arts centre breathing new life into the Somerset town of Watchet and it has a real sense of social purpose
The week in art news – United States to rejoin UNESCO in July
Plus: climate activists smear paint on a Monet, Maurizio Cattelan’s banana wins a lawsuit, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The ballet that woke up post-war Britain
Oliver Messel’s rococo sets for ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ at the Royal Opera House represented a new dawn for dance
Portrait of the King as a Young Artist
As Charles III’s juvenilia comes to auction, Rakewell’s thoughts turn to other members of the royal family who have displayed artistic tendencies
Four things to see: animals in art
From Edwin Landseer’s stag to an ancient Egyptian hedgehog, this week we’re celebrating animals throughout art history
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Why is the United States rejoining UNESCO?
When the country renews its membership in July, it will pay back dues of more than $500m – but it does so on its own terms