Peter Aspden 10:16pm

Baggage to be carried lightly

To admit to doubt, and open yourself to visions other than your own – there is no nobler mission for art

‘Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle’ (2009) by Yinka Shonibare 10:12pm

Simon Schama at the Whitechapel Gallery

The historian is invited to mount an exhibition from the UK’s abundant Government Art Collection. Here he explains how he made his considered choices

Peter Brant Vanessa Friedman 10:04pm

Lunch with the FT: Peter Brant

The industrialist, property mogul, art collector and friend of Donald Trump reveals why he identifies with the 99 per cent

Doren Gabriel, Photographer, photographed in his studio in central London From MANAGEMENT Dec 29, 2011

A one-click enterprise

Growth of online profiles presents a fresh market opportunity

Manzoni in his home at Via Cernaia pfeatures Dec 28, 2011

Manzoni: Azimut, Gagosian Gallery, London

Manzoni, like many post-Duchampians, walked a fine line between genius and joker

Big screen

dreams of a life

Nigel Andrews reviews ‘Dreams of a Life’ directed by Carol Morley, plus ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’

Small screen

Leo Robson

‘This Is England ’88’ acquiesces in the view social barriers are defined by external markers – including finger food, says Leo Robson

Dec 27, 2011

The Bearden Project, Studio Museum, Harlem

Tribute to an African-American artistic pioneer

Dec 23, 2011

Let us adore them

It’s been a good year for painters, male dancers and female pop stars – tempered by heroic dissidence and untimely death, writes Jan Dalley

Dec 20, 2011

Hepworth sculpture latest target of ‘scrap metal’ thieves

Dulwich Park’s 2m-high work sawn off at base and towed away

Graham Sutherland painting Jackie Wullschlager Dec 16, 2011

Graham Sutherland on show

What Turner prize nominee George Shaw’s selection of Sutherland’s work reveals about English romanticism and European modernism

Carsten Hoeller Dec 16, 2011

Just Höller

The artist famous for his giant slides at Tate Modern explains why his latest project in Rome is both romantic and tragic

From MANAGEMENT Dec 15, 2011

India’s diaspora clicks with art online

New consumer class embraces the salesroom

Dec 15, 2011

Grateful tribute to Stieglitz as collector

Ariella Budick visits the Metropolitan Museum in New York and its monster exhibition of the paintings and sculptures amassed by Alfred Stieglitz

Jackie Wullschlager Dec 9, 2011

British postwar painting on show

FT’s visual arts critic welcomes overdue retrospective in London of ‘the most underexplored terrain of British art’

Dec 7, 2011

Hide / Seek, Brooklyn Museum, New York

Cryptic codes to gay abandon

From COLLECTING Dec 2, 2011

Glitz and pieces

Dealers bring brightly coloured paintings and glittery works to Art Basel Miami Beach

Peter Aspden Dec 2, 2011

Explore the undiscovered country

Art that examines our finite status may be good, in that it encourages a more rational discussion of death as well as life

Nov 30, 2011

Bernardo Bellotto, Palazzo Sarcinelli, Conegliano

Painter’s trans-European journey from Canaletto imposter to genuine article

From MANAGEMENT Nov 28, 2011

Case study: Understand a market to change it

Britart pioneer Damien Hirst created a new consumer

Nov 28, 2011

Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art

How American plutocrats came to embrace communist propaganda

Harry Eyres Nov 25, 2011

Gifting labours of Hercules

Al Weil’s philanthropy derives from a passionate affair with the 19th-century watercolourist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon

Visual arts slideshows

Gesamtkunstwerk

Ida Ekblad’s ‘To Drink a Glass of Melted Snow’ The Saatchi Gallery’s show of new German art

Video

Multimedia

podcast

margin call Margin Call and the financial thriller

VIDEO

cecilia gallerani Leonardo da Vinci at London’s National Gallery