Sophie Barling is senior editor of Apollo.
Locked down in Arles, the celebrated interiors photographer François Halard made a series of dreamlike Polaroids that emerge as an enigmatic self-portrait
Richard and Isabel Burton are buried in a quiet churchyard in south London – but their remarkable tomb is a fitting monument to these insatiable travellers
From that scandalous scallop to her Mary Wollstonecraft monument, Maggi Hambling is no stranger to controversy
John Betjeman’s nostalgic verse memoir was well served by its illustrators
The gardens’ latest restaurant occupies the site of their first refreshment pavilion – which has a surprisingly turbulent history
Some choose their wallpaper, some have paint schemes thrust upon them... a decorative dérive through the history of colour and interiors
Curator Peter Carpreau talks about the masterpieces of Flemish art housed in the recently restored St Peter’s Church in Leuven
The French director’s film about an 18th-century painter and her muse is a visual feast
From Fauvist paintings to fragments of the Berlin Wall – highlights of the 2020 edition of the fair
From The Rock as an art detective to warts-and-all Warhol – the must-see films and a first reading list for art lovers
