Plus: the UK budget announced, with mixed news for the arts; and archaeologists discover ancient Mayan city in Mexico
With the news that an artist is set to tie the knot with an interactive hologram, Rakewell wonders whether romance is dead after all
The idealistic German artist channelled her considerable political energies into art both before and after the First World War
The ease of making screenprints after the Second World War stirred the imaginations of artists as varied as Lucio Fontana and Althea McNish
The Royal Academy of Arts offers viewers the chance to compare the three Renaissance rivals and contemporaries
The Thracians were rarely regional top dogs but, as a show at the Getty Villa proves, their artistry was unparallelled
As his 24-hour film The Clock returns to MoMA, Christian Marclay talks about working with sound and images – and bridging the divide between the two artistic worlds
As Diwali continues in full swing, it’s the perfect time to explore four objects that capture several elements of the festival and its mythology
The American modernist’s buildings are often easier to admire than love, but his critical stock is undoubtedly on the up again
The making of rag rugs has never been considered high art, but an exhibition in Middlesborough shows just how intricate and inventive they can be
Given Hitler’s unrealised plans for a museum of looted art in Linz, the futuristic Ars Electronica festival is a triumph for the city, but there’s no room for complacence
The ideas and images of the artists who unleashed their unconscious on the world a century ago are now part of the fabric of everyday life
The architect’s pioneering modernist buildings have outlasted critics and changing trends, as a monumental new biography makes clear
For its 27th edition, the fair is setting up shop in the galleries of London’s auction houses and welcoming a number of new exhibitors
Recent results for the London auctions may be a sign that things aren’t all doom and gloom
Artists from Helen Frankenthaler to Marlene Dumas have poured and splattered paint on to their canvases with a sense of enviable abandon
Château Smith Haut Lafitte is a vineyard sprinkled with the sensibility of an English country garden
At the Art Gallery of Ontario, visitors fitted with heart monitors have found Otto Dix stimulating and Gerhard Richter soothing. The rest of art history remains to be rated…
Plus: the Whitney Museum of American Art is making admission free for under-26s after a donation from Julie Mehretu; and Gary Indiana has died at the age of 74
Documentary photographs from apartheid-era South Africa sit alongside pictures inspired by Candomblé traditions in this wide-ranging show in Chicago
Political art, text-based works and flamboyant self-portraits by the German photographer go on show in Düsseldorf
The horrors of the First World War and its troubled aftermath loom large in the Austrian artist’s inventive, disconcerting paintings
The most extensive survey to date of the artist’s career touches on Romanian craft traditions as well as the country’s turbulent history
To coincide with United Nations Day, we look at four artworks and objects designed to promote harmony or tranquillity
