Sculpture
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Greek prime minister says loan of statue from pillaged frieze puts end to British Museum argument that disputed antiquities are immovable
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Phillip King’s sculptures from the 1960s helped to define a new era in British art. As he turns 80, and ahead of a Tate retrospective of his work,, he talks to Nicholas Wroe
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Headless statue of a Greek god Ilissos goes on display in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg
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Ceramic poppies from the Tower of London’s centenary installation are making their way to their new owners. Why did you buy one?
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As the year draws to a close, take a trip down memory lane and share your nostalgia-themed art
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Other Lives: Expert on Chinese sculpture and the tombs of the Ming dynasty and author of several books on Chinese stone carving
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As his River of Fundament reaches Tasmania, the artist talks to Nancy Groves about near misses, full-frontal nudity and why he’s happy never quite arriving
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Multi-millionaire publisher Felix Dennis was an obsessive collector of the great artist-craftsman, who also became infamous for his voracious sexual appetite. Now his archive is up for auction at Sotheby’s
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From Howard Hodgkin in London to William Blake in Oxford, find out what’s happening in art around the country
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Martin Jennings statue will commemorate fearless women who kept the city’s steelworks running during both world wars
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Ryan Gander’s artwork, Dad’s Halo Effect, is part of a decade-long regeneration project
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From Paul McCarthy to Jeff Koons, this a refreshingly unprescriptive show, totally unrepressed by today’s idea of cool, writes Jonathan Jones
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The museum has dusted off its plaster masterpieces, including Michelangelo’s David, to give a rare glimpse of Victorian mores and ambitions. Oliver Wainwright takes a tour
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An amusement arcade of optical tricks and dangling punchbags daubed with hate figures fails to conjure up the spirit of artistic rebellion
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Stone-carving students follow in footsteps of medieval craftsmen with mischievous sculptures for St George’s
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From Gavin Turk’s light sculptures in Salisbury to Mark Nevile’s documentary photography in London, find out what’s happening in art around the country
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Letters: We place a much higher value on things that are rare or unique, provided they speak to us in some significant way
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New exhibitions by Jonathan Monk and Art & Language confront the passing of time and the soiled fabric of life, one using tacky souvenirs and clown collages, the other with portraits of world leaders that you never get to see, writes Adrian Searle
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Jonathan Jones: Diabolically grotesque art – from Jonathan Payne’s sprouting finger sculptures right back to Hieronymus Bosch – has staying power. As long as we have bodies, we will experience body horror
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Jonty Hurwitz, co-founder of Wonga.com, has created nanosculptures of human forms that are invisible to the naked eye and can only be viewed on the screen of a powerful scanning electron microscope
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Beth Cullen Kerridge put her career as a sculptor on hold to support her husband’s struggle to become a Michelin-starred chef. Now the tables have turned. Interview by Tim Adams
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From Michael Williams’s psychedelic canvasses in London to Christopher Orr’s first solo show in Scotland, find out what’s happening in art around the country
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Jonathan Jones: Masters of sex bare all at the Wellcome Collection, plus rare photographs of Alabama in the 50s and New York’s superclub at the height of its fame
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Romans, Nazis, Victorian-era Brits, noughties cat-burglars – they have all stolen priceless works. Here are the most shocking art thefts of the last two millennia, writes Ivan Lindsay
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American artist Nick Cave’s vast practice spans performance, fashion, music, dance and these human-sized wearable sculptures on show at Sydney’s Carriageworks
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Huge pair of Ray-Bans on Cape Town promenade hijacks one of South Africa’s greatest national figures for corporate gain, writes Rebecca Hodes
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His collaborations with Kanye West and Louis Vuitton have made him rich and famous, but the Japanese artist’s new works, inspired by Fukushima, are more than gaudy trinkets for the super rich
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News: By donating his Picasso-riffing piece Gazing Ball (Charity), Koons has helped raise money for vaccination and education programmes – and he’s part of an art world increasingly given to donations of valuable work
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Jonathan Jones: Philosemitism – the appreciation of Jewish culture – has been hotly debated of late, in the wake of a new book by Julie Burchill and against a backdrop of Middle Eastern conflict. We should look to Rembrandt and Michelangelo to celebrate its true spirit
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Monuments in Birmingham, London, Newcastle and Wirral upgraded to highest listing with two others raised to Grade II*
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Zoe Williams goes among the women as fetish furniture at the RA’s new show to find out
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From Allen Jones’s erotic art in London to Robert Heinecken’s neo-surrealism in Liverpool, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what’s happening in art around the country
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Pop art’s most controversial figure explores fantasy and fetish at the Royal Academy, and we celebrate a masterpiece of peversity that’s more than 450 years old
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Gallery: The standup comedian and sitcom star has amassed a remarkable collection of African art, from Senegalese sculpture to South African street photography. Some of its fabulous works go on show in Washington DC