Forget the story of British art you've been missold – no one matters more than Freud, as this extraordinary retrospective of the raw, tender painter revealed, writes Jonathan Jones

Laura Cumming: A liberation from geography and chronology, this show offered visitors a vast spectacle of what artists, over 3,000 years, have made with bronze

Kate Abbott was fascinated by the Japanese artist's retrospective in London

Seeing the New York Museum of Modern Art retrospective in the home of drag and radical feminism added urgency to Sherman's obsessive explorations of identity, sex and power, writes Alex Needham