Exhibitions

Juergen Teller to curate Robert Mapplethorpe show in London

November exhibition at Alison Jacques gallery coincides with what would have been the US artist’s 70th birthday

Shanghai’s Long Museum takes aim at female artists

The institution hosts its first exhibition dedicated to international and Chinese women, with works spanning ten centuries

Object lessons: the eagle of the crusader emperor who was a friend of Arabs

Frederick II, Wonder of the World, is a star of the British Museum’s Sicily show, closing next week

First posthumous exhibition of Gerald Laing's work to open in London

The Fine Art Society's show will coincide with publication of British Pop artist's first catalogue raisonné

Three to see: New York

Step inside an Impressionist Garden in the Bronx and peek into the psyche of a compulsive collector at the New Museum

Three to see: London

Detroit Techno comes to the Mall and Mark Wallinger gets self-reflective at the Freud Museum

A walking tour of New York’s High Line with Cecilia Alemani

The curator and director of the elevated park’s art programme recently took us through the current works on show

‘Mad ambience’ of 1960s Mali depicted in Malick Sidibé’s first major UK solo show

Somerset House exhibition is among slew of projects coming to London during 1:54 contemporary African art fair

Talking about our generation: photo show celebrates Chinese artists of the 1980s

Xiao Quan’s portraits and street scenes capture the avant-garde during the country’s heady transition

Artist takes on the American prison industrial complex at Alcatraz

Installation by Nelson Saiers uses American football to tackle social issues

Marie Antoinette’s personal china among Versailles treasures to travel to Australia

The largest ever loan show organised outside France will feature more than 100 objects from the historic royal palace

Like Ike? Toledo Museum of Art decodes the fine art of political persuasion

Over 50 American political ads on view, from the first television spot in 1952 to those used in the 2012 presidential election

Reading Prison and its most famous inmate inspire major new project

Patti Smith, Steve McQueen and Marlene Dumas, among others, respond to Oscar Wilde and the jail's architecture and history

Louder than words: on the Language of Things at City Hall Park

The show offers all visitors a chance to consider some serious ideas

Three to see: New York

Travel to Queens with the Ramones and survey the legacy of the Seljuq dynasty at the Met

Object lessons: from an ancient Greek coin to a chronicle of English kings

Dealers and auction houses stage selling shows during the art world's summer break

Royal Academy to show avant-garde art Stalin suppressed

Malevich's pioneering abstracts among works reunited from landmark show of 1932

Three to see: New York

Stroll the city streets with Diane Arbus before excavating the riches of the Hellenistic world at the Met<br>

Three to see: London

Scandinavian salivation at the Barbican, California dreaming in Whitechapel and textile titillation at Camden Arts Centre <br> <br>

Ragnar Kjartansson finds a home from home in the Barbican

Icelandic artist's London show opens this week in venue he has loved since childhood<br>

Mike Nelson turns Monaco bank into an ultramarine blue underworld

Every surface, from the Baroque staircase and underground vaults, has been daubed for the hallucinogenic project

New show reveals grisly details behind Van Gogh’s mutilated ear

The exhibition in Amsterdam focuses on the artist’s mental illness and includes the revolver that he used to kill himself

A bridge between New York and Paris: on Stuart Davis at the Whitney Museum

The artist's power came from his ability to navigate between American realism and European Modernism

Liverpool Biennial: Isil iconoclasm, a Scouse musical and a laser show in a reservoir

Artists mix fiction and reality in the ninth edition that reimagines the city’s past, present and future

Dis-affecting: Mostafa Heddaya on the Ninth Berlin Biennale

The show’s curators give false prominence to simple provocations

Three to see: London

From Georgia O’Keeffe’s great blooming flowers and Walter Sickert’s snaps to 50 metres of latex in Westminster <br>