The plane crash that made it into a museum
Christian Boltanski’s installation at the Museo per la Memoria di Ustica is a stark tribute to the victims of an unsolved tragedy
The dreams of the Surrealists have become the stuff of our reality
The ideas and images of the artists who unleashed their unconscious on the world a century ago are now part of the fabric of everyday life
The doctor who was devoted to Van Gogh
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
Building Indian modernism in Ahmedabad
The Sarabhai family were great patrons of modernist architecture in the city – and Gira Sarabhai’s contribution in particular deserves to be better known
Ways of seeing at the Wellcome Collection
The eye may be our most perceptive organ, but it can sometimes make us blind to the other senses
Pulling faces – the art of showing emotion
An exhibition at the Musée Marmottan Monet considers how artists have tried to represent feeling through the centuries
How the Versailles of Yorkshire was saved from ruin
Wentworth Woodhouse, the largest stately home in England, has at last been restored to something of its former glory
Meet Magritte – the man behind the apple
Bowler hats off to a new biography of the painter that chips away at the Belgian’s bourgeois veneer
At the Fondazione Prada, painting refuses to play dead
Peter Fischli has curated a show about the demise of painting – but his take is that it’s still very much alive
The eccentric English socialite who embraced Surrealism
Heir to a railway fortune and an 8,000-acre estate in West Sussex, Edward James transformed his homes into total works of art – with a little help from Dalí and friends
What happens when you hang a painting upside down?
Georg Baselitz says it makes the viewer pay closer attention – but plenty of paintings have simply been upended due to gallerists’ gaffes
How Bologna pioneered the art of anatomical wax modelling
Palazzo Poggi houses the extraordinary 18th-century creations of a school dedicated to wax modelling – invaluable tools for medical students at the time
The space odyssey that went nowhere – ‘Spaceship Earth’, reviewed
Before ‘Big Brother’, there was Biosphere 2 – an experiment in utopian living that left its participants low on food and short of breath
Window dressing – the art of shopfronts and gallery facades
The shop window has long been a playground for artists – and looks set to be so more than ever in the months ahead
Keeping it real – neorealism in the Netherlands
Museum MORE has done a great deal to invigorate a genre once seen as hopelessly old-fashioned
‘The dungeons are decorated with wreaths left by slaves’ descendants’
Four centuries after the first English slave ship arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, the president of Ghana is urging members of the African diaspora to discover their roots
The most beautiful swimming pool in France
An abandoned art deco swimming pool is now a museum of art and industry
Rethinking the utopian vision of the Bauhaus
The Bauhaus’s radical designs were meant for the masses, but they were far from affordable
‘There is an element of optimism in my work’
Rasheed Araeen talks to Apollo about six-decades of making visually arresting and politically engaged art
‘When I start bidding it’s very hard to stop’
Kiran Nadar on the ‘exhilaration’ of art collecting, the museum she set up in Delhi, and her commitment to showing Indian artists on the global stage
Peggy Guggenheim steals the show in Florence
A show about the Guggenheim’s art collections is really about the battle between Peggy and Solomon
How do you capture a colour? Interview with Ettore Spalletti
The Italian artist discusses his distinctive palette and what he owes to Yves Klein
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