The genius and beauty of Da Vinci's brilliant bodies

World View: If Greece is essentially a political problem, it is one in urgent need of European direction

Leonardo da Vinci's pioneering anatomical studies are now on show at the Queen's Gallery. Genius is the only word for them, says Adrian Hamilton

World View: François Hollande's election provides an opportunity for a re-think

Most women fell for him: his office manager’s job was to change the photographs in his flat when needed

Fêted photographer has died aged 79. Adrian Hamilton pays tribute

Lord Justice Leveson is said to be no longer enjoying his role as chairman of the inquiry into the "culture, practice and ethics of the press". Little wonder. When it started, his inquiry had all the glamour and drama any criminal judge might want. Hard-nosed hacks squirmed at the questioning of the propriety of their actions. Executives of News International had no alternative but to state their abject apologies for what was done in their name but not, so they said, with their knowledge. Leveson could bask in the assertion of the primacy of the law over an anarchic media.

Model-maker Ron Mueck's new show at London's Hauser & Wirth gallery features only four works, but they are enough to leave Adrian Hamilton overwhelmed

An exhibition at the Pompidou in Paris shows Matisse's mastery of form, colour and style to stunning effect, says Adrian Hamilton

Prince Charles might decry it, art and architecture may have moved beyond it, but today's world was made by modernism – and the Bauhaus School in pre-war Germany was its hard core.