Jack White review – former White Stripe’s art is like a 12-year-old visiting Tate Modern for the first time

White may be a talented musician but as a visual artist, he’s a nonstarter. Not even the collaborations with Ai Weiwei and Damien Hirst can save this show

David Bowie: You’re Not Alone review – Ziggy glam and Berlin grime in a bum-shaking yet sanitised immersion

This hour-long, 360-degree film may skip over some chapters of Bowie’s career, but what is here is irresistible – and thrillingly huge

Ed Sheeran’s Pollock homage has energy but no feeling or truth

Abstract art like this gives all abstract art a bad name, just meaningless concoctions that avoid proper scrutiny

Laurie Anderson: Ark: United States V review – a long and winding bid to make sense of America

Contemplating a world of catastrophe and collapse, the veteran artist’s new three-hour show, though much too long and diffuse, has moments of poignancy – and joy

Steve Reich: Reich/Richter review – intricate riffs on the rhythms of painter’s abstract film

The patterns of a work by Gerhard Richter inspire one of Reich’s most impressive recent pieces, elegantly performed in 2020

Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch review – Glanert’s spectacular, scurrilous chronicle of sin

The painter is called out for his misdeeds in Detlev Glanert’s apocalyptic and sometimes awesome requiem, beautifully performed under Semyon Bychkov

Reich/Richter review – two artists with the power to disrupt time and space

An ever-shifting new composition by Steve Reich is set to a Rorschach-like new film by Gerhard Richter, with wonderfully disorientating, hypnotic results

Ecstatic Material review – jamming with play-dough and Angel Delight

In this collaboration between musician Beatrice Dillon and artist Keith Harrison, sound manipulates all manner of gloop and goo

Wozzeck review – startlingly original opera animated by Kentridge’s apocalyptic vision

Sydney Opera HouseIn a production that’s more art installation than traditional opera, the South African artist captures the cruelty of war

Unknown, Remembered… review – a baffling and curiously disengaged installation

A soprano’s Handel cantata is interrupted by Joy Division, turntablism and artist Haroon Mirza’s take on a Beckett play – in this elusive multimedia piece

Ryoji Ikeda review – techno data storm assaults the senses

The Japanese composer and visual artist’s polyrhythmic techno confronts our digital dystopia

True Faith; New Order + Liam Gillick: So It Goes review – Factory legacy holds sway

Joy Division, New Order and the label that nurtured them have made an indelible mark on the city, now celebrated in inventive and exhilarating art and music

New Order + Liam Gillick: So It Goes review – a suitably theatrical Manchester return

There are intensely emotional scenes as New Order revisit their back catalogue on a grand scale with synth orchestra, airing songs not heard for 30 years plus rapturously received tributes to the band’s fated predecessor, Joy Division

The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains review – look, a flying pig!

V&A, London The refracting prism, the businessman ablaze, the giant inflatable pig: they may be pop’s most anonymous band, but Pink Floyd’s artwork is instantly recognisable – as this stunning V&A show proves

Partenope review – Handel on a night out with beardy bohemians

Despite the culottes and mustachios, ENO’s revival of its 2008 production retains enough substance to back up its arch styling