The flying saucers have landed: Qatar’s thrilling new supersized museum

It took 18 years to build, has nearly a mile of galleries and is inspired by a desert rose. But is Jean Nouvel’s eye-popping creation for the world’s wealthiest nation too extravagant to fill?

Beyoncé effect fills galleries with a new generation of art devotees

Fame sells: that’s the lesson in a survey revealing the world’s most popular exhibitions during a bumper year

Still fresh as a daisy: Mary Quant’s era-defining fashion

Her exuberant clothes catered to women’s new sense of freedom in the 60s and a V&A retrospective shows Mary Quant is as relevant as ever

• My Mary Quant gem: women on the treasures they donated

New York’s Met Museum showcases the power of camp in new exhibition

Camp: Notes on Fashion will tell the story of camp’s origins from Versailles to 1930s Berlin

Brighton exhibition showcases 40 years of hats by Stephen Jones

Royal Pavilion exhibition has at its centre a display of hats created for 26 famous faces

Female artists are finally in our galleries – let’s keep them there

Galleries are finally choosing to exhibit works by women – but will they stay on the walls once the trend for representation has passed? It’s all of our jobs to ensure they do