When Margaret Gardiner wasn’t collecting the work of modern British artists, she was urging them to join her in political protest
As emerging global powers are using culture to further their political and economic goals, is Britain keeping up?
While exiled in the city, Marie Antoinette’s favourite artist stuck up a close friendship with her own idol, Angelica Kauffman
The sculptures of Conrad Shawcross, several of which are installed in vineyards around the world, have a clear affinity with the craft of wine-making
The French artist, a disciple of Carravaggio, was little known for centuries after his death in 1652. Now he is rightly recognised as a singular talent
This magnificent gilded cup fuses organic form with astonishing craftsmanship, explains Caterina Badan of the Schroder Collection
In paintings such as The Communist, a Political Meeting, the Welsh painter Evan Walters captured the hopes and fears of working-class communities
The emergence of Le Creuset cookware a century ago sparked a change in how home kitchens both looked and functioned
The artist and occultist’s rapturous account of her travels around Ireland give a glimpse into her surreal view of the world
The French artist believed in his paintings being stylistically uniform and infinitely replicable – an idea that, a century on, has not done him any favours
The vast Cinecittà film studio complex had such an influence on cinema it came to be known as ‘Hollywood on the Tiber’
At Beamish, the award-winning Living Museum of the North, everyday English life is recreated on a vast scale
Though museums use them to provide more information, QR codes can conceal as much as they reveal
Among this month’s highlights are a brooding self-portrait by Spilliaert and a masterpiece of late gothic sculpture
The grain originated in pre-Columbian Mexico but became so highly prized in Italy that it made its way into paintings, plays and more
If you’ve ever wanted to curate your own museum, pretend to be a Medici patron or infiltrate the Louvre, these are the games for you
The artist mixed making abstract sculpture with populist public commissions. As her reputation soars, her generosity of spirit is as apparent as her inventiveness
Les Plaisirs du bal is a masterpiece set apart by its meticulous, poetic handling of light and shade
Depictions of Christ’s ascent to heaven often manage to be both deadly serious and upliftingly silly
The painterly splendour of Kubrick’s film is widely recognised, but its relationship with 18th-century art is thornier than it seems
In voluptuous paintings of cakes and other foods, the American artist captured both pleasure and a sense of surfeit
With summer in full swing, Apollo rounds up some notable examples of art on the beach, from Barcelona to Venice Beach
The poet lived at Wentworth Place for only 17 months near the end of his short life, but there he produced his greatest works and experienced some of his lowest moments
The artist’s vivid paintings seem abstract, but are in fact intricate pieces of storytelling about her Aboriginal community
