Plus: photographer turns down Sony prize after winning with AI-generated image and Artcurial expands into Switzerland
The Bozar in Brussels shows that in Florence, the style was considerably more refined than in Rome
The film-maker’s lyrical explorations of race and cultural history go on show at Tate Britain
The Grolier Club serves up a feast of menus that tell us much about changing social mores
The Huntington presents a rare opportunity to view the oldest printed book in its collection
Enrolment in the humanities is tumbling across the United States, but the numbers for fine art are still holding up
The hunt is on for an epic mural depicting ‘Country Life in Britain’ – but chances are it’s a wild goose chase
How artists have used their practice to document climate change and reflect on our relationship to our planet
Nobody embodied the glitz and glamour of the fin-de-siècle quite like ‘La Divine’, as a lavish show at the Petit Palais proves
The climate protestors have copped a lot of flak for taking on the snooker – but at least it makes a change from museums
The Tate does a decent job of bringing the Rossetti women to the fore – but it still lets Gabriel run away with the show
The performance artist has struck an uneasy balance between fact and fiction in her work for more than five decades
A compelling exhibition in Paris proves that scrawling and scribbling have long been a way for artists to let go
The Japanese painter works to the sounds of birds chirping and receives regular visits from figures from the past
Reuniting the surviving works from the painter’s ‘Frieze of Aeneas’ series allows us to imagine one of the great Renaissance ensembles more clearly
The gallery founded by the Amber Collective is a champion of documentary photography, strongly rooted in the local area, and deserves all the support it can get
The Whitney puts on the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date
Finland’s most important art museum has been completely rehung just as questions of culture and national identity are on everyone’s mind
The Queen’s Gallery in London puts on a courtly fashion show
The photographer documented Jewish communities throughout Eastern Europe from the late 1920s to the start of Second World War
The Tate considers how both artists used abstract painting as a means of understanding the natural (and supernatural) world
A telegram sent from the ship and a tobacco pipe owned by a junior engineer are among our pick of objects not to miss this week
The self-styled ‘living sculptures’ have long been an east London fixture – and they’ve just opened a new centre in a bid to stick around even after they’re gone
Plans to create a climate-themed biennale in the region of the painter’s birth could be a rollercoaster ride for everyone concerned
