‘These aren’t extinct cultures’ – indigenous art gets a stage at the Met

In two exhibitions in New York, Native Americans are given a spotlight both with their artwork and the inaccurate ways they’ve been portrayed by others

Tristram Hunt: ‘In the era of fake news, museums allow a better understanding of truth and history’

The director of the V&A on the institution’s expansion into east London, the antisemitism row in the Labour party, and the changing role of museums

David Hockney painting earns record $90.3m for living artist

Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) beats $58.4m record set by Jeff Koons

Snap up a masterpiece! Our brilliant bumper guide to gaming the arts

Free tickets! Lunchtime thrills! Killer deals! Culture on the cheap needn’t mean a seat in the stratosphere. Find out how in our UK guide to arts on a budget

Rankin’s best photograph: a supermodel in a cow mask

‘I didn’t think models were being treated as people. So we borrowed a farm, put some in masks – and shot them in a cow barn then a pigsty’