It's been besieged, abandoned, and used as a training ground for terrorists - but the ancient city of Hatra still stands in the Iraqi desert
Auerbach's lighter side; Eddie Izzard's fear of fine art; and more tittle-tattle from around the art world
Art News Daily : 22 May
This spectacular French clock, designed by the best craftsman of the day, is the star of a show at the Wallace Collection
Remembering the pioneering performance artist Vito Acconci, who died in April aged 77
The possibilities of paint are inexhaustible, says the German artist Markus Lüpertz
The legendary S.S. Normandie was lost to fire in the 1940s, but relics from its luxury interior survive – including these verre églomisé panels
Art News Daily : 19 May
Wasn't this year's Venice Biennale exhibition supposed to do away with grand curatorial conceits?
How Spencer Tunick turned public nakedness into art – while avoiding the police
MoMA's attempt to 'make space' for women artists has backfired, but does at least highlight some unexpected affinities between artists
Art News Daily : 18 May
Hillary Clinton's hubristic confetti and Ed Milliband's garden sculpture
This remarkable house in Hammersmith is a vivid museum of late Victorian cultural life
Prices are rocketing for photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher and their students at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Cedric Price believed that architecture should be mobile, lightweight, and temporary. Above all, he thought it should be fun
Art News Daily : 17 May
Despite Yale's new facsimile edition, this 15th-century manuscript happily remains as indecipherable as ever
Art News Daily : 16 May
The decision to stage part of the 14th Documenta in Athens has been widely debated. Now that it's open, what are the highlights of the programme?
The transfer of the Royal Photographic Society's collection from Bradford to London raises questions about the past, present and future of photography in museums
A round-up of last week's art world tittle-tattle
The artist's relentless and bloody-minded pursuit of freedom, in art as in life, was a lesson to us all
Art News Daily : 15 May
