As the National Gallery in London turns 200, we ask celebrated artists to pick the artwork from the collection that means most to them

Hokusai explodes into Britain, Sebastião Salgado paddles up the Amazon, Lubaina Himid gets a retrospective – and an eccentric postmodern bath finally opens to the public

Rodin, Bacon and Eileen Agar will be big, but Abramovic’s art attack could eclipse them all. Plus Frank Gehry unleashes a tornado and Helen Levitt shows how street photography should be done

Jake Chapman wants Colston beheaded, Anish Kapoor wants a memorial to the millions killed by slavery, and Tracey Emin is thrilled the ‘stale old men’ are going. Artists and sculptors respond to statue outrage

Hares rise in the Midlands, laughing gas intoxicates London and Matisse’s graphics flood Bath

Jeremy Deller unleashed a yacht-throwing colossus and Rachel Whiteread hit the streets with a vacuum cleaner … six leading artists recall representing Britain at the arts extravaganza