Alan Sorrell's neo-Romantic work is an antidote to today's conceptual art, and perfectly suited to Sir John Soane's Museum
William Tillyer's retrospective at mima, Middlesbrough is overdue. His vibrant paintings interrogate the local landscape and human nature
Masculinity is having a moment. The Wallace Collection’s ‘The Male Nude’ follows the Musée d’Orsay's lead and takes a closer look at men in art
The Museu do Oriente in Lisbon looks at Portugal's recent links with the East as well as its longer history in the region
'Nelson, Navy, Nation', a new gallery at the National Maritime Museum, is at its best when it challenges our relationship to its well-worn stories
Philip-Lorca diCorcia strikes a serious note in 'East of Eden' at David Zwirner, London. His photographs have an uneasy eloquence
Ronchini Gallery's exhibition 'Calder & Melotti' hinges on the artist's shared experiences in Spoleto, Italy - but the context is never fully explored
They were once kept under lock and key, and are still taboo in Japan, but both the British and Fitzwilliam Museums are celebrating shunga prints as art this autumn
The Munch Museum and National Museum in Oslo recently joined forces to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Munch's birth
There are noble ideals (and some interesting artists) at work, but The Other Art Fair and Moniker's crowded display doesn't give the art a chance
With some excellent editions and a spacious layout, Multiplied at Christie's South Kensington is a welcome respite from a frenetic week
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
Dayanita Singh's exhibition at the Hayward Gallery is curious curatorial blend: archive, library and gallery combined
'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
