Exhibition of the week
Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art
This is the exhibition of the year – a stonkingly sensual survey of the ancient Greek world that includes many of the greatest sculptures ever created.
• British Museum, London, from 26 March until 5 July.
Other exhibitions this week
Christina Mackie
Mackie’s new installation contemplating colour is the latest Tate Britain Commission. We’re promised silk nets dipped in dye, sculpture and chunks of raw glass.
• Tate Britain, London, from 23 March until 18 October.
Ydessa Hendeles
This Canadian artist presents an installation involving 150 wooden mannequins that she has collected.
• ICA, London, from 25 March until 17 May.
Richard Diebenkorn
Retrospective of a major painter of modern times.
• Royal Academy, London, until 7 June.
Prussian Blue
Scottish artist Michael Fullerton shows new work and curates historical portraits from Sheffield museums, by the likes of Lawrence and Greuze.
• S1 Artspace, Sheffield, from 20 March until 9 May.
Masterpiece of the week
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas: Young Spartans Exercising About 1860
The ancient Spartans trained women as well as men to be athletic – if they were strong and muscular, it was thought they would give birth to powerful warriors. In this erotically tense history painting Degas imagines the Spartans all getting sweaty together.
• National Gallery, London.
Image of the week
What we learned this week
Photography ain’t what it used to be with the new generation of American tyros
Anthony Caro + big green expanses of Yorkshire = a very nice new retrospective
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd has made a soft play area in Dagenham for her latest work
Exuberant architect Michael Graves died – but left behind a wealth of spirit-lifting buildings
The shortlist for a new pedestrian bridge at Nine Elms in London has been announced
Grayson Perry is a record-breaker at the National Portrait Gallery
