A rare 17th-century portrait of a Black woman and a white woman and an illustrated Armenian manuscript are among this month’s highlights
The axeing of 37 museum posts will force overstretched employees to work harder and make institutions shelve their grander plans
The Chrysler Museum of Art has given a looted monolith back to Nigeria and received a facsimile in exchange. Will other institutions follow suit?
The museum has reopened with a new entrance and a complete rehang of the collection – but there’s no getting away from its founding purpose
The newly reopened museum has an impressive collection of Turkish art, but seems strangely disconnected from the present
East Quay is an arts centre breathing new life into the Somerset town of Watchet and it has a real sense of social purpose
Oliver Messel’s rococo sets for ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ at the Royal Opera House represented a new dawn for dance
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly the Albright-Knox, reopens with a strong sense of civic purpose and a firm commitment to modern art
The painter’s atmospheric restaurant interiors and precise still lifes put him at the top table
The most expensive manuscript to ever be sold at auction and an impressive collection of Dutch Mannerist prints are among this month’s highlights
This richly coloured glass is a window to a key moment in the history of science and of princely patronage, says the Rijksmuseum’s curator Maartje Brattinga
A publicity shoot for ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’ caught the photographer and his subject at an unusually vulnerable moment
The country has been producing wines for centuries, but they are only now getting the global recognition they deserve
The novelist Louise Welsh is spooked by the Belgian artist’s menacing ‘Great Judge’
The reconstruction of cities devastated by the Second World War took radically different forms, depending on the circumstances
With more than 150 exhibitions staged across the capital, Apollo's editors pick out the ones they don't want to miss
The Hunterian Museum has reconsidered the ethics of showing human remains without sacrificing its weird charm
Christina Makris goes in search of the work of the architect renowned for marrying traditional craftsmanship to modernist details
The Japanese ceramicist was awarded the top prize for her ingenious work at a ceremony in New York
Marco Ferreri’s ode to eating may be one of the most disgusting films about food ever made
The joint acquisition of Joshua Reynolds’s ‘Portrait of Mai (Omai)’ by the National Portrait Gallery and the J. Paul Getty Museum has been confirmed
The Menil Collection in Houston looks at the groundbreaking work of a curator who brought a new generation of American artists into museums
Three hundred years after the composer moved into his London townhouse, what does the art collection he amassed there tell us about his music?
From votive offerings to anatomical models, wax is the perfect material for blurring the boundaries between art and life
