Julia Michalska

Why the art world must tackle the questions posed by artificial intelligence head on, plus comics celebrated in two European locations and Degas’ portrait of the circus artist Anna Albertine Olga Brown

The case for and against the policy of free admission for UK museums, a tour of the British Museum’s new Michelangelo show and an in-depth look at Maria Blanchard’s Girl at Her First Communion in Malaga

Plus, Singapore's art scene and a photograph by Zanele Muholi

Plus, hip hop in Baltimore and Juan de Pareja, the artist enslaved by Velázquez

Plus, artist Pedro Reyes on his New York project; cartoonist Martin Rowson on Hogarth

Plus, the artist Jennifer Packer on a Buddhist mural in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

We speak to the queen of performance art about casting herself in stone and to the National Portrait Gallery’s director Nicholas Cullinan about the king of pop’s influence on artists.

The Polish art lover on her fascination with female artists and how she wishes she could have been seated at Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party

The artist, an Art Basel veteran of four decades, has championed female artists, including Sylvie Fleury, in his selection

We talk to Martin Gayford about his book Modernists and Mavericks and sitting for portraits by Freud and Hockney. And we explore a show celebrating the Signals gallery, where Latin American and European avant-gardes converged.