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
How tales of witchcraft have spellbound artists and makers for centuries
A book by Daniel H. Weiss, outgoing president and CEO of the Met, offers a public-spirited view of how a changing world can benefit from the constancy of large institutions
At Leighton House, intricate gold drawings by the Pre-Raphaelite artist reveal her great debt to Italian sources
The Iraqi-American artist has been working with migrant communities in the north-east to create a garden and greenhouse at the Baltic Centre
The Scottish painter who has long treated book covers as blank canvases is now also working on a much bigger scale
As a book about mist and fog in European painting shows, artists have often taken a very hazy view of the landscape
Plus: Ukrainian government releases online database of artworks in the possession of Russian nationals, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been immortalised in bronze, but it leaves a bad taste in Rakewell’s mouth
The Austrian artist brings his uncanny wit to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The Norwegian non-profit organisation celebrates its centenary with a group exhibition at the Vigeland Museum
The mansion block has often reconciled Londoners who can’t afford actual mansions to the realities of apartment-living
The Margate-based ceramicist’s large-scale installation takes on binge drinking and public shaming
A flowering sculpture by Jeff Koons and an audio installation installed in a forest are among the works not to miss this summer
It has taken the National Trust 24 years to restore the Gideon Tapestries at Hardwick Hall to their former glory
On the anniversary of Jackson Pollock’s death, we look beyond the legend of the artist to the many other figures whose work defined the movement
