The flurry of exhibitions focusing on women artists is very welcome – as long as they resist tired old narratives
The K-Pop quartet attended a State Banquet for the South Korean president hosted by the new king – but perhaps its members might take up more permanent residence?
One Woman Show is a novel about a socialite’s progress through the 20th century, told in the style of wall labels you might find at the Met
Jean-Étienne Liotard depicted the same scene first in pastel, then 23 years later in oils – and both versions can be savoured for a time at the National Gallery in London
The seedier side of city life has captured the imaginations of artists throughout the decades
The artist’s playful and delicate works, often painted on book jackets, conceal a serious interest in absurdity, art history and animals
This long overdue retrospective shows that there was very little Nicolas de Staël coudn’t do as a painter
The multidisciplinary artist begins her work in bed each morning and spends her afternoons cycling to meetings, equipped with two large saddlebags
The painter works on several pieces at a time with the occasional break to use her skipping rope
• The Pop sculpture of Marisol
• The rise of the Renaissance woman
• Canine art at the Kennel Club
• Building modern India
Plus: festive geese for the table, the demand for French art deco furniture, visions of heaven and hell at the Morgan Library, and reviews of Venetian painting in Munich, John Lavery in Dublin and an 18th-century guide to marble
The Antiguan-born painter spent his final years living off the land, but his paintings of an island paradise are more complicated than they seem
After fleeing Nazi Germany for Venezuela, Gego made intricately-woven works from industrial materials
Barbra Streisand’s doorstopper of a memoir suggests that the real love of the star’s life is the painter Modigliani
The British monarch was no patron of the arts, but the political upheaval of her reign inspired many writers and artists
At the Henry Moore Institute, artists and poets are hanging on to language for all they’ve got, finding meaning in the spaces between writing and objects
Ambitious arts programming has transformed the fortunes of the French city since it experienced tough times in the 1980s
The artist has turned his attention to the same five sitters time and again across his 60-year career, to touching effect
The artist’s playful and delicate works, often painted on book jackets, conceal a serious interest in absurdity, art history and animals
Cause and effect is hard to pin down, but a certain type of celebrity association does seem to affect the value of a work of art
This impressive exhibition takes us through the very long history of a literary genre, but overlooks the part played by artists and illustrators
This show at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore spans 1,750 years of Ethiopia’s rich cultural and artistic history
The Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris explores the Dutch designer’s pioneering practice
S.M.A.K. in Ghent presents the first institutional solo show outside of his native Georgia to be dedicated to the poet, critic and artist
The National (Royal Scottish Academy) in Edinburgh tells the story of printmaking from the 15th century to the present day
The artists who want to enter the monster zone
Creativity often flouts conventions, so it’s no wonder more women want to become thoroughly monstrous