May 2022

TEFAF New York returns as a single edition this year, with antiquities, jewellery, design, modern and contemporary art all under one roof

As the number of global billionaires has ballooned, the art world has become increasingly reliable on questionable funds from Russia and elsewhere

Silversmithing has had a turbulent history on the Iberian Peninsula. The market is quiet, but showing new signs of life, says Emma Crichton-Miller

Once one of London's most impressive private palaces, the house successfully melded a mix of architectural styles but this wasn't enough to save it from its fate

With cracks appearing in the relationships of institutions in Nigeria, Barnaby Phillips wonders where the returned Benin Bronzes are going to end up

There is no great tradition of male nudes by women artists, but this underlines an asymmetry of power rather than a lack of female desire

Tottenham Hotspur's new stadium has just celebrated its third birthday but despite its shiny facade, the club still projects a message of continuity and tradition

Pierre Terjanian of the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells Apollo why a Renaissance pageant shield is such a beguiling work of art

The American painter may be famed for a chaotic approach, but in reality he had complete command of his materials – and he owed his technique to a printmaker

The artist’s motivations for painting hooded Ku Klux Klan figures were as complicated and unsettling as our reactions as viewers might be

The painter’s contemporaries saw him as a successor to Sargent, but his depictions of Black and queer subjects may stand out more today

Blending wine, art and hospitality, Viña Vik wine estate invites visitors to indulge in the totality of aesthetic pleasure

Suspicious of photography's ability to illustrate her colourful accounts of culinary history, food writer Elizabeth David looked to the Old Masters instead

Wentworth Woodhouse, the largest stately home in England, has at last been restored to something of its former glory

Maeve Gilmore thrived on the demands of domesticity – and her family is now on a mission to make her art much better known

The nature of modern conflicts and the demands of today’s media has led to a shift in the images produced by photojournalists

In this memoir of sorts, the photographer gives us a masterclass in staying alert and fully alive to the everyday world

The writer’s drawings are every bit as fastidious as his sentences – and full of the same preoccupations

Throughout the ages, and for better or worse, the clothes men have worn have been absolutely crucial, writes Rosalind Jana

Louis-Léopold Boilly experienced his fair share of personal drama, but he had a rare gift for depicting the ins and outs of everyday existence

The sculptor’s boundless powers of invention are on full display in his hometown for this once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster

This focused survey shows that artists after the war seemed more than ready to embrace the future