The Royal Academy in London offers an insight into the Swiss firm’s design process
The Art Institute of Chicago explores the stories behind supernatural characters
How the modern painter found in inspiration in classical Spanish artistic traditions
Clues to the popstar’s creative process can be found on her coffee table – in a book of illustrations by John Willie, foot-fetishist extraordinaire
A string of recent exhibitions have done much to raise the profile of so-called outsider artists
The Rijksmuseum’s blockbuster has been recorded for posterity, but can a film really do the paintings justice?
The figures brought over in 1771 are the first documented works of Oceanic art – and now on display where they were made
At Casa Balla, Futurism was definitely a family affair for Giacomo Balla and his daughters Lucia and Elice
Linking the painter’s work directly to its source material downplays what makes it really interesting
Provenance is more crucial than ever but the market for masterpieces is now broader than ever
At a time when art fairs around the world are scaling back, the New York mainstay is still thinking big
On the institution’s 125th anniversary, its director Mónica Ramírez-Montagut wants to serve a wider audience and make stronger connections with the local community
The saint may have lived a life of poverty, but this richly varied exhibition is anything but impoverished
On the centenary of the artist’s birth, it is easier to see that beneath the impersonal surfaces his work is teeming with life
At RIBA a film by Jim Stephenson shows that architecture can have a long and unpredictable afterlife
Real archaeologists are probably right to regard their famous fictional colleague as a renegade, but he’s a useful reminder of what not to do on a dig
Plus: French artist Claude Lévêque is charged with rape and the Hermitage Amsterdam is changing its name
Kettle’s Yard explores the historical life and contemporary significance of this rich tradition
The Spanish artist fills the Hamburger Bahnhof with her fleshy sculptural forms
An impressive collection of works on paper drawn from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s collections explores humankind’s relationship to nature
The Museum Barberini in Potsdam considers how 19th-century Dutch painters took cues from techniques being developed in France
A rare 17th-century portrait of a Black woman and a white woman and an illustrated Armenian manuscript are among this month’s highlights
How artists have depicted homosexuality at various points in history
The artist’s remarkable paintings of women are also a form of self-exposure
