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
When Simon Pettet moved into Dennis Severs’ House in Spitalfields he began to channel the 18th century in the 1980s
The Art Gallery of New South Wales’s extension is too populist and commercially minded for some – but it is full of possibilities
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s sculpture garden in Piedmont is also home to the family rosé
The American artist’s melancholy approach is part of a much punchier tradition says Elisa Germán, co-curator of a show at Harvard Art Museums
Enrolment in the humanities is tumbling across the United States, but the numbers for fine art are still holding up
The gallery founded by the Amber Collective is a champion of documentary photography, strongly rooted in the local area, and deserves all the support it can get
