Sunil Gupta’s candid camera
Ahead of a major retrospective, the photographer looks back at a long career spent documenting – and shaping – queer life in Britain, India and beyond
Ahead of a major retrospective, the photographer looks back at a long career spent documenting – and shaping – queer life in Britain, India and beyond
The late princess’s famous ‘Revenge Dress’ is being sold at Sotheby’s, and now’s your chance to own a slice of royal history
As art thefts keep hitting the headlines, a special agent from FBI’s Art Crime team talks to Apollo about why criminals keep stealing art that is almost impossible to sell and how institutions can better protect themselves
Curator Wolf Burchard explains how an exhibition of colossal carpets at the Met in New York celebrates a unique chapter in art history
Objects made for the city’s most important families were full of mythological and biblical figures and scenes – and this erudite exhibition aims to recreate their original settings
The painter’s commission for the Courtauld Gallery draws on her love of early Italian painting, applying lessons from Giotto, Cimabue and Piero della Francesca to modern subjects
A major retrospective at Tate Modern reveals an artist whose talent burns more brightly than ever
As capital punishment became ubiquitous in the 18th-century, artists were increasingly influenced by the macabre spectacle
Hull Maritime Museum has reopened after a six-year, £20m refit, and its extraordinary collection of art and artefacts of seafaring life is making waves once again
Why are a growing number of countries cashing in on animals, rather than historical figures, for the images on their currency?
The long-running fair dedicated to Italian art rests on the quality of its pre-19th-century offerings – and there’s much to delight here
Everyone knows that the medieval masterpiece chronicles matters of high state, culminating in the Battle of Hastings, but its borders carry a much more riddling message
The ‘Madonna of Saint Sebastian’ shows the painter imbuing an old subject with new life – and recent restoration has brought his mastery of colour to the fore
Businesses of all sizes might be forced to go back to basics if they want to survive
For decades, a famous collection of antiquities has led a reclusive existence in Rome – but now a rolling programme of conservation and display is earning them new admirers
Modernists regarded the Scandinavian style as a mere throwback, but it was much more radical than it was given credit for
While Capability Brown achieved a natural look with great artifice in England, French landscape gardens were overtly experimental fantasies
As a new jellyfish museum opens in Florida, Rakewell makes the case for the spineless wonders as a class of non-sentient performance artists
There’s more to coping with heatwaves than turning on the air con, especially if collections and visitors require different conditions
The photographer behind the popular ‘I Spy’ picture-riddle children’s books talks to Apollo about the method behind his mind-boggling optical illusions