The ancient Greeks were quick to adopt the decadent drinking culture of their Persian enemies
A few excellent results can't paper over the deeper cracks that have appeared at Christie's and Sotheby's this summer
A portrait saved for the nation has been praised for representing racial equality in 17th-century Britain, but it’s mainly a warning to women everywhere
The advent of new technology transformed the photographer’s work in the 1930s – but it couldn’t last
A wave of emerging galleries is breaking across the capital despite difficult economic conditions
From Käthe Kollwitz to Edvard Munch and beyond, this week take a look at some of the key figures of this important movement
The city’s newest and largest arts space provides ample room for the artist’s large-scale inflatables, but it’s not all about size
A string of recent exhibitions have done much to raise the profile of so-called outsider artists
The Rijksmuseum’s blockbuster has been recorded for posterity, but can a film really do the paintings justice?
At Casa Balla, Futurism was definitely a family affair for Giacomo Balla and his daughters Lucia and Elice
On the centenary of the artist’s birth, it is easier to see that beneath the impersonal surfaces his work is teeming with life
At RIBA a film by Jim Stephenson shows that architecture can have a long and unpredictable afterlife
Plus: French artist Claude Lévêque is charged with rape and the Hermitage Amsterdam is changing its name
A rare 17th-century portrait of a Black woman and a white woman and an illustrated Armenian manuscript are among this month’s highlights
How artists have depicted homosexuality at various points in history
The performance artist uses paint, props and a nude cast of actors to make her point
The axeing of 37 museum posts will force overstretched employees to work harder and make institutions shelve their grander plans
The mystical associations and strange rituals of the summer solstice have captured the imaginations of artists for centuries
A record-breaking Klimt at Sotheby’s has put the marketing machine in overdrive, but quieter joys can be found elsewhere in the capital
At the heart of a memorable but uneven event is the struggle to remember the transatlantic slave trade in appropriate ways
The museum has reopened with a new entrance and a complete rehang of the collection – but there’s no getting away from its founding purpose
The Netherlandish painter is a master of directing viewers to the telling detail
From the ashes of Masterpiece rises an ambitious and even more selective successor
The newly reopened museum has an impressive collection of Turkish art, but seems strangely disconnected from the present
