The man who holds the record for the highest price paid at auction for work by a living artist unveils a shiny new Venus in Athens – and answers questions about balloon animals, porn stars and dinner with Jeffrey Epstein

Meet the 20,000 pedigree pooches, breeders, obsessive owners and fastidious judges at ‘the world’s greatest dog show’

Soak up the atmosphere in this Andalucían city

As the capital celebrates Guy Fawkes Night, a rapid-response team awaits the call to come to the aid of the city’s critically injured

Just Stop Oil activists have moved on to a new campaign: citizen’s arrests of CEOs

How the city’s young are clinging to normality while war rages on

Impolite, outlandish and determinedly eccentric, the art world’s ‘inside-outers’ have spent 60 years dividing opinion. They share their collective wisdom on love, politics and mortality

For more than a century, elements of the far-right have been attracted by the rigour of eastern disciplines