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‘Within this array, the fragment of the True Cross is Pamela Anderson’s sculptural red one-piece, possibly the most famous piece of swimwear in the world’ – Catherine Slessor dives in to the Design Museum’s stylish history of swimming

An exhibition in Tokyo celebrating the artists and artisans Loewe has worked with over the decades is tailor-made for craft lovers, writes Edward Behrens

At Almine Rech’s Tribeca gallery, the paintings of Keita Morimoto turn Tokyo into a nocturnal no-man’s-land, writes Robert Rubsam

‘It is their unknowabililty that makes them properly special.’ In Athens, Rosalind Jana on a millennia-spanning exhibition of art from the Cycladic islands

Posters of David Hockney’s show in Paris have been pulled from the metro for featuring a cigarette – but he can look back on a long art-historical lineage

Art Dubai, the biggest art fair in the Middle East, is highlighting projects from the Global South and shaking up Western traditions of displaying art, writes Michael Delgado

Self-portraits and depictions of family and friends build a picture of Edvard Munch as insider rather than outsider, more savvy than angsty, writes Emily Cox

Alfred Hitchcock may have hated them, but for those who aren’t as easily frightened, eggs can crack open a whole new world, writes Niki Segnit

The ups and downs in the marriage of photographer Joel Meyerowitz and writer and artist Maggie Barrett make for documentary dynamite

From medicinal paper sheets printed with saints’ icons to the dust of earthenware Madonna figures, eating physical images was once seen as an act of piety, explains Tim Smith-Laing

‘A fusion between human and machine, linked physically, energetically and visually’ – Genevieve Cortinovis of the Saint Louis Art Museum explains why a vintage Bugatti car has so much personality

Suzanne Treister has updated her ‘Hexen’ tarot deck, charting the rise of the military-industrial complex for an age of climate crisis and disinformation. Will Wiles draws a hand

In his posters and illustrations, the art nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha fused Slavic motifs with Japanese influences to create a style that was truly cutting-edge, writes Zoe Guttenplan

At the Morgan Library, a selection of guides to foreign lands reveals a bustling Middle Ages full of fantastical visions, writes Irit Kleiman

In ‘Paris Noir’, the Pompidou presents African, Caribbean and American artists who could be free in the French capital in ways denied to them at home

The Liria Palace in Madrid is paying tribute to its late, great owner, the Duchess of Alba, in the form of installations by Joana Vasconcelos. Christopher Turner considers the colourful life of the eccentric aristocrat

The Edwardians are usually associated with elegance but an exhibition at the King’s Gallery in London suggests that excess was the hallmark of the age

The looting of the Sudan National Museum was confirmed when government forces retook Khartoum at the end of March. As the devastating war continues, the losses are still being counted, writes Rennan Lemos

The invention of the optical telegraph in a fractured post-Revolutionary France collapsed time and space, changing visual culture for ever. Kirsten Tambling considers the art of long-distance communication

Tutored in Paris in the 1920s, Dublin-born artists Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone brought a boldly avant-garde sensibility to traditional subjects