Exhibitions
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>
From Georgia O’Keeffe and Soviet superwomen to fabulous findings at the Foundling Museum in this week’s exhibition roundup
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>
Three to see: New York
From Bruce Conner’s haunting assemblage and László Moholy-Nagy’s gesamtkunstwerk to blackness in abstraction<br> <br>
Katharina Grosse's splash of colour for New York beachside building
The Rockaway! project at Fort Tilden opened this week but will vanish in November<br>
Francis Bacon's great gambles—both in art and in the casino—on show in Monte Carlo
The artist regarded his losses on the roulette table as “an expense related to painting”
Africa's first major Matisse show to open in Johannesburg
Exhibition will highlight inspiration the French artist drew from African figurines and masks
Mystery over Bosch's piper
Dutch artist's famous painting, The Haywain, shows musician playing bagpipe incorrectly. Could he be based on a previous print?
Three to see: London
See the best of British at Christie's then hop over to Hockney before going underground for a night of art <br> <br>
Three to see: New York
Get evicted with Martha Rosler before your around-the-world trip with Sigmar Polke<br> <br>
The seriousness of a child at play: Kenneth Baker on Joel Shapiro at the Nasher Sculpture Center
Shapiro says he only wants to 'stick stuff in space,' which belies the many important questions his work raises
Impressionism leaps off the canvas and into the Bronx
Exhibition brings a period garden and 20 US Impressionist works to New York
Steve Martin—comic, collector and now curator—helps launch Lawren Harris show in Toronto
At Tuesday’s preview, the actor and art enthusiast spoke about his first encounter with the Canadian painter’s work, and offered advice to young artists