More exhibitions, including Alphonse Mucha and Goya

Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art, British Museum, London

It is a truism that no art shaped our concept of the beauty of the human form more definitively than ancient Greek sculpture. But this major, carefully conceived show, centred on the museum's greatest treasures including the incomparable Parthenon sculptures by Phidias, has freshness and dynamism. It achieves this partly through loans - "Apoxyomenos", the bronze nude athlete recovered from the Croatian seabed in 1999, visits Britain for the first time; the Belvedere Torso from the Vatican - and partly by demonstrating the geographical extent of Greek influence, as far as present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan.

britishmuseum.org, 020 7323 8299, to July 5

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From Her Wooden Sleep, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Courtroom? Auction? Anatomy lesson? Drawing class? Curator-artist Ydessa Hendeles has devised an arresting tableau vivant of 150 wooden artist mannequins, ranging in date from 1520 to 1930 and in scale from palm-size to life-size, who are grouped to stare at a lone figure: a meditation on the nature of the gaze and of society and belonging.

ica.org.uk, 020 7930 3647, to May 17

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Alphonse Mucha: In Quest of Beauty, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth

A rare British show of the Czech master of art nouveau who became a star in 1890s Paris with his first poster of Sarah Bernhardt, explored ideals of fin-de-siecle beauty in commercial and fine art and returned home to paint the patriotic "Song of Bohemia" in 1918. The Russell-Cotes, an opulent late-Victorian villa in Moorish, Japanese and French style, is a perfect setting.

russell-cotes.bournemouth.gov.uk, 01202 451800, to September 27

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Making It: Sculpture in Britain 1977-1986, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield

The story of British sculpture's reinvention in the 1970s through a generation which, though conceptualists and very diverse in outlook, shared an interest in the sculpted object and in materials: Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Alison Wilding.

ysp.co.uk, 01924 832631, to June 21

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Goya, The Witches and Old Women Album, Courtauld Gallery, London

The first time all the strange, poignant, sexually suggestive, fiercely energetic, brush and ink drawings from Goya's late 22-page private album known as "Witches and Old Women" have been reunited, from collections in Madrid, Paris, New York, Boston and Berlin. Although undated, "Witches" is the work of an artist confronting old age and it evolves with tragicomic logic. Contextual works trace the development of Goya's graphic language and satirical spirit to convey with mastery of gesture and expression extremes of pathos and horror.

courtauld.ac.uk, 020 7848 2526, to May 25

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