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Stately gallery founded in 1946 in the age of high-minded modernism finally had to succumb to a new reality

Locations in London, New York, Barcelona and Madrid to be shut ‘after long and careful consideration’

Plunging into the joy, heartache, mystery and amazement of motherhood, more than 100 works by artists including Paula Rego, Chantal Joffe and Celia Paul offer a riveting riposte to the infamous pram in the hall

Other lives: Highly experimental artist never afraid to use new materials

Yoko Ono’s cheeky pieces, a gut punch from Goya and the National’s centenary celebrations will fill the UK’s galleries, while the Louvre’s architect takes his moment in the sun in this stupendous year

The Guardian’s art critic examines the collection amassed by the oligarch and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova, which includes Freuds, Picassos and Russian modernism

We pick the best art shows to enjoy this week

When Paula Rego was asked to paint a mural for the dining room of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing in 1990, it “seemed a thoughtless insult”, said Laura Cumming in The Observer. The artist, who died last year aged 87, was renowned for focusing on the kinds of people normally…

Designed to be seen across dining crowds at the National Gallery, Rego’s 90s mural, inspired by Crivelli’s 15th-century one, comes alive in the details. And Cooke’s candid self-portraits find respite in flowers

From kaleidoscopic mosaics to modernist masterpieces, let’s open our eyes to the art hidden in plain sight

Rego’s huge mural, painted 30 years ago for the Gallery’s restaurant, sits alongside the altarpiece that inspired it. Hers is less a feminist revolt than a celebration of perspective itself