Features

The pages of US periodicals trumpet a country making it up as it went along, covering everything from prohibition to pulp fiction

The discovery of a 3,000-year old city at the West Bank of Luxor creates a more nuanced picture of ancient Egyptian life

Dia Art Foundation’s support for ambitious experimental artists is as resolute as ever, its director Jessica Morgan tells Apollo

On the bicentenary of the poet’s birth, his art criticism still hums with outrage

Francis Bacon’s work reveals an endless fascination with animals – and the bestial side of human nature

The pandemic has highlighted the need for urban projects such as the Camden Highline – and London has a long history of transforming unloved sites into havens for city dwellers

The painter’s urgent, sympathetic portraits of her fellow New Yorkers are exactly what we need in these troubled times

Robert Walpole was a supreme political operator – but his power and personal wealth made him a splendid butt of satire, too

Walking around the city can feel like following in the footsteps of the famous photographer – but today’s empty streets are altogether more depressing

Many British royals have been keen on acquiring works of art, but few have been as diligent about looking after them as Queen Mary

You’re not going abroad this summer – but you can still have a holiday with an artistic twist

The restored tomb of Augustus reopened this month – and an extensive new website gives a good sense of what has happened to it over the last two thousand years

The glittering displays of Noël Coward and chums masked an altogether less divine reality – but anxiety and fear were always part of the act

Irma Stern’s idylls of African life have too often been read at face value – but they mask a more troubled history

Since the 1960s, artists and designers have regarded the brooch as a miniature sculpture – and an opportunity to try out new materials and techniques

Norman Rosenthal celebrates a great champion of contemporary art in Britain, who as director of the Tate founded the Turner Prize

Will Martin steps away from his screen and takes his cues from some of the world’s leading contemporary artists

When Marie Antoinette had a theatre built at Versailles, her play-acting took to a stage of its own – and now this splendid interior has been meticulously restored

A proposed law will prevent journalists and the public from photographing the police – and follows widely publicised acts of police brutality, writes Valeria Costa-Kostritsky