Koen Bulckens of the Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp explains what makes the painter’s portrait of ‘the weeping prophet’ such an emotional tour de force
The Dutch artist was a dab hand at painting spuds, but why haven’t more artists been inspired by the terrific tuber?
To mark the anniversary of Isadora Duncan’s first performance in Europe, we look at four artworks that immortalise the trailblazing dancer
Apollo editor Edward Behrens chairs a panel discussion on the complex topic of restitution in the art world
A Chardin still life and a pair of wooden sculptures from medieval Japan are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
The annual event provides plenty of artistic surprises and has much to offer to smaller collectors
A proposed statue of the author has caused a fuss among local residents, but does anyone really like public sculptures anyway?
The San Franciscan painter and ceramicist uses jazz, podcasts and Bay Area nature to help him create fantastical anthropomorphic works out of clay
The artist works from her home in the wilds of northern Finland, where she sews textile pieces beside a wood-burning stove to the sound of Sami radio
• Willem de Kooning’s Roman holidays
• The sentimental side of Angelica Kauffman
• Why the art world needs gatekeepers
• An interview with Laure Prouvost
Plus: the Met enters a new era, haunting buildings in Hungary, the reopening of the Fondation Bemberg, the modernist movement in Georgia, reviews of Lee Ufan in Berlin and the first English-language biography of Monet, and previews of TEFAF Maastricht and Salon du Dessin
The artist bristled at attempts to analyse his work, but an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel suggests that his fluorescent fittings are still open to interpretation
The Palazzo della Pilotta contains three museums, a historic library and one of the oldest theatres in Europe – but, until its recent refurbishment, has often been overlooked
In honour of the centenary of Eduardo Paolozzi’s birth, we look at four works that convey the dazzling variety of forms mosaics have taken throughout history
Depictions of lions by leading lights of the Romantic movement and more Academic types reveal humanity’s dark side
The artist has always combined high and low culture, and an exhibition at Waddington Custot captures his witty approach to assemblage
There’s a thin but fluid line between fine art and fashion for the artist who is now making accessories for Loewe
Among the exhibitions that can be seen in a day trip from the fair are Frans Hals in Amsterdam, Immanuel Kant in Bonn and Sung Hwan Kim in Eindhoven
The artist amassed one of the finest private collections of Indian court paintings, an activity that preoccupied him as much as making art
The painter’s final months in the care of Dr Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, a physician as interested in art as he was in medicine, were an extraordinarily productive period
The westward spread of modernist design between the wars was shaped by the migrant experience
The French artist wrestles with the limits of reality in Venice, a city famous for masks and disguises
The Louvre has restored the Van Eyck masterpiece for the first time since it entered the museum in 1800
London’s National Portrait Gallery brings together the work of two photographers who worked a century apart
The artist’s refusal to restrict herself to a single medium makes the Museum Ludwig’s retrospective a restless affair
Fifty years on, this biopic of Edvard Munch deserves a new lease of life
Peter Watkins’ 1974 film is no ordinary portrait of the artist – and feels more current than ever as the art-historical canon is up for debate