Reviews

The Munch Museum and National Museum in Oslo recently joined forces to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Munch’s birth

PAD London continues to diversify, and there’s plenty to tempt visitors during this busiest of weeks

‘Paul Klee: Making Visible’ at Tate Modern is rigorous but incurably serious – is it the right setting for such complex and colourful work?

‘Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present’ at the Freud Museum is powerfully unsettling

‘The Renaissance and Dream’ at the Musée du Luxembourg is nothing short of miraculous

Damien Hirst’s ABC book is cynical and culturally pointless, but it might just make a valuable impression regardless

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera make awkward companions at a nonetheless important Paris exhibition

The Spode factory in Stoke-on-Trent may have closed in 2008, but the British Ceramics Biennial looks to the future of the medium

Pierre Huyghe’s work isn’t made for a gallery space, but an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou brings it inside anyway

The Hamburger Bahnhof looks at 20th-century attitudes to the future, but didn’t foresee some of the problems of its chosen approach

A new book on Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ memorial to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry sheds light on its legacy and shortcomings

An exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe’s fashion photography proves that he was at his best focusing on the nude

Leonora Carrington may be a ‘literary painter’ and a surrealist storyteller, but we should not forget the formal qualities that underpin her best work

Carefully staged celebrity portraits by Jonathan Yeo and Michael Peto are on display at the National Portrait Gallery

The mandrake screams when it is uprooted: Francis Upritchard’s strange uprooted outsiders seem to have given up the fight

The Musée d’Orsay’s exhibition of male nudes is almost a great show, but it misses a timely opportunity to explore homoerotic sentiment in art

An exhibition at the Frick Collection ostensibly celebrates David d’Angers’ monumental sculpture, but his small medallions steal the show

Jordaens has languished in the shadow of Rubens and Van Dyck, but an exhibition at the Petit Palais brings the artist back into the spotlight

‘Désirs et Volupté’, a selection of Victorian art from the Pérez Simón collection at the Musée Jacquemart-André, won’t be to everyone’s taste