Innovation and potential are not merely the preserve of the younger generation – as these artists are proving
Plus: major lots announced for the London modern art sales
Frank Lloyd Wright is widely considered America's greatest architect – but his career was dominated by failure
An exhibition of Eric Gill’s art in Ditchling raises questions about how far we can separate art from life. Should biography shape our understanding of an artist’s work?
After the Russian Revolution, the State Porcelain Factory produced a powerful new art form for a new era
A major archaeological discovery has put Algeria's history in the spotlight. What can its existing world heritage sites tell us about the country's past?
Thomas Marks talks to the Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy about his new book on East London
The artist's haunting sound sculptures and paintings address the absent figures who inspired them
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
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
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
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
Despite Yale's new facsimile edition, this 15th-century manuscript happily remains as indecipherable as ever
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
The artist's relentless and bloody-minded pursuit of freedom, in art as in life, was a lesson to us all
Funding cuts are a danger, but it's the more insidious changes to the structure and attitude of public sector that we should really worry about
