The artist’s tortured, trailblazing work is gathered in a major retrospective

For decades, the pyramids, mummies, and hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt have been reduced to clichés in textbooks and pop culture. A new exhibition seeks to change that. Writer: Amalie Sortland, with reporting from Laura Cumming Producer: Amalie Sortland Episode Photography: Joe Mee Executive producer: Rebecca Moore

In this show, nothing is new except the Instagrammability factor

There is a dilemma at the heart of art’s fascination with these restless creatures: a draughtsman can never let them take wing

Britain’s first show of the artist in nearly 30 years reveals his mastery of light and detail in calm, captivating seascapes

A retrospective of the Welsh artist takes a stance against biography in favour of method

The Courtauld’s riveting, revelatory and deeply researched show of ten lost female painters looks afresh at the golden age of British landscape art

The photographer’s stark pictures of ordinary Americans are big, beautiful – and blank

The patron saint penetrated is the subject of a powerful reappraisal at the National Gallery

Knife-Woman, the first major biography of the sculptor, fails to capture her furious genius

The Pacific island’s king and queen were the talk of London when they visited in 1824. Then disaster struck

A year of female greats awaits with a Frida Kahlo blockbuster and long-overdue retrospectives of Joan Eardley and Ana Mendieta. Plus, two once-in-a-lifetime shows at the National Gallery

Laura Cumming on the year in visual art, from Noah Davis to Turner and Constable

Seriously, at London’s Sprüth Magers, tries to find the laughs in conceptual photography. Spoiler alert: there are none

Britain’s first major sculpture exhibition by blind artists and curators invites visitors to touch and feel. It is revelatory – and revolutionary

The dandy artist’s woodcut portraits are truly radical marvels

Masterpieces by the two artists are put side by side in this thrilling show

A first exhibition in Britain of the painter’s work reveals the quiet majesty of an artist whose village became her studio

The artist’s original, larger-than-life woven effigies stand out in the Royal Academy’s pocket survey of South Asian works

The inseparable Scottish artists and lovers are celebrated in a landmark English show at Charleston

The multimedia artist creates hypnotic, cinematic forms of homage to music greats from Pete Townshend to Prince