An old-fashioned way of bringing in cakes and custards is beginning to feel rather modern again
The Library of Congress’s Literary Costume Ball has set Rakewell thinking about the pros and cons of taking sartorial inspiration from famous authors
An exhibition in Vienna tackles the involvement of Jewish players in some of Europe’s oldest clubs – and how those clubs acknowledge this history
Plus: South-east Asian countries are demanding return of looted objects from Denver Art Museum, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The Getty Center makes a case for the critic and photographer’s important role in the development of art history in his home country
The Egyptian film industry came to dominate the Arab world – and poster makers did much to secure its hold on the popular imagination
A new breed of business is offering investors shares in blue-chip artworks – and making big claims about their profitability
The Iranian artist’s arresting images illuminate displaced communities and experiences of migration
The emigré artist bucked the trends he encountered in 1920s Paris to carve out his own path
How radical new ways of making art emerged in the period following the Korean war
On the anniversary of Captain Cook’s first voyage to Australia, we consider the history of exploration through four objects including a map of sea monsters and a robot used for navigation
The vintage trucks in London’s parks provide soft serve with an outsize dollop of nostalgia – and do it in style
Finland’s questing version of modernism, as championed by Alvar Aalto, went hand in hand with the development of social democracy
The first garden created by the designer for a house by Edwin Lutyens has been bought by the National Trust – preserving a vital piece of history
Under new owners, this stalwart of the London fair calendar shows that a focus on British art needn’t be parochial
In the absence of clearer rules, institutions should obey the spirit and not just the letter of the law – and be more careful with material they may have to return
Plus: the gallerist Angela Flowers has died at the age of 90 and the Orlando Museum of Art is suing its former director over an alleged scheme to sell forged Basquiats
It has been a monumental week for Paris’s leading tourist attraction. Let us hope recent events have distracted La Dame de Fer from an unhappy matter of the heart
Works by the German artist with a lifelong commitment to social justice are juxtaposed with installations by Mona Hatoum
The Greenlandic artist has spent three decades challenging the colonisation and romanticisation of her homeland
The Los Angeles County Museum shows that stone isn’t just a material to be shaped, but also something to be painted upon
The Getty explores how design considerations shaped the interpretation of medieval texts
The Eye Filmmuseum highlights the madness of the director’s methods and how beautiful the finished films are – and leaves us to make up our own minds about it all
