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A tradition in good shape

A show at a gallery owned by Britain’s pre-eminent sculpture collector and dealer is a stunning reprise of a seminal exhibition mounted almost 50 years ago, writes Jackie Wullschlager

Rules of abstraction

The haze of ideas of two rival critics still blurs the clamouring and visceral canvasses of abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning

Yesterday’s future

An exhibition at London’s Science Museum transports visitors into an era that dreamt of a world space fleet by 1995 and recalls the optimism that fuelled Britain’s reinvention through high technology

The poetry of train and track

Caillebotte’s anonymous figures crushed by a world of iron are among the many highlights of Liverpool’s ‘Art in the Age of Steam’, the first show to explore how the railway brought a dramatic new kind of poetry to painting, writes Jackie Wullschlager

The renewal of the eternal city

Through a meticulous collection of more than 170 works, ‘Quattrocento in Rome: the Rebirth of Art from Donatello to Perugino’ maps a metamorphosis, writes Rachel Spence

Lunch with the FT: Grayson Perry

Underneath the pink tulip-skirt dress of this transvestite is a Turner Prize winner and an intellectual artist who has made some of the most exquisitely crafted pots of our time

The spoils of war and a sense of hope

Britain must rid itself of its curious addiction to glorifying its own past and devote the Fourth Plinth to more ephemeral forms of expression, says Peter Aspden

The gilded Cages

Tate Modern’s Richter display is stunning, but it also highlights the museum’s need to acquire more top pieces, writes Jackie Wullschlager

Photography: Past and future in light dialogue

While the contemporary section of the V&A’s exhibition fuses experimental techniques with often melancholic, meditative themes, the works in the earlier part are juxtaposed to reflect developments in style, technology and society, writes Claire Holland

A contemporary marriage

Miuccia Prada symbolises perfectly the dizzying merger of fashion and art. The designer tells Peter Aspden about her plan to house a 500-piece collection at the Prada Foundation’s new headquarters

Famous spaces

Still angry after all these years

The stained cape of his heart

America the realistic

Kitchen-sink diplomacy

Jeff Koons on the Roof, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Last piece in the puzzle

Works that speak volumes

Don’t Miss: Phillip King

Fair of the week: A print run of originals

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