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

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

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

Vast, lurid yet increasingly timid, the pair’s art is in your face but never reaches heart and head. Plus, a captivating show of Scandinavian graphic works

Wayne Thiebaud’s vibrant paintings capture the romance of a bygone age. The first solo exhibition in Britain of his art opens this week

The American photographer’s response to war and its aftermath stun at Tate Britain

This exhibition is concerned with presentation, but artworks are mounted on mesh grids like posters at Ikea

The painters and stonemasons of ancient Egypt have been erased from history, but a new exhibition brings them fully to life

The National Gallery show Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists presents a pan-European movement with extraordinary aims and variations

A magnificent exhibition at the V&A tries to capture the woman behind the possessions