Careful curators let us see how a rebel Byzantine painter cast a spell over Picasso et al

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania

The Tate Modern will next year stage the first major UK exhibition devoted to Roy Lichtenstein in 20 years, its most comprehensive retrospective of the celebrated pop artist. The exhibition, which opens next spring, will bring together 125 of the artist's definitive paintings and sculptures.

This useful show leads us through Bauhauser paintings, furniture, even puppets, all forged in the years between the darkness of two world wars

Tate, London

A thousand artists were asked to name the work best expressing national identity. Their choice was surprising

Garrick Club, London

Musée de l'Armée, Paris

The only privately-owned version of Edvard Munch's classic masterpiece The Scream has gone on show in London for the first time before it is sold at auction in New York.

Of interest to students of art and deltiologists (collectors of postcards) alike, Jeremy Cooper's extensively illustrated book provides the first critical study of the place of the humble postcard in the history of art.

As the young Turks come of age, two shows reveal that their mature selves can be both nasty and nice

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh National Gallery, London

It is one of the most distinctive album covers in British pop music history, featuring some of the most iconic faces of its day.