Curator Wolf Burchard explains how an exhibition of colossal carpets at the Grand Palais celebrates a unique chapter in art history
The Irish artist is inspired by Philip Guston’s drawings in her London studio, which looks on to a rugby pitch and might be haunted by the ghost of Charlie Chaplin
The German artist enjoys the solitude of his New York studio, which offers a refuge from the bustle of the city
Before the release of her latest film, the director sat down with Apollo to talk about the thrills and spills of making an art-heist movie
The artist blasts country music at full volume and thumbs through a Nan Goldin catalogue while working at her home studio in Notting Hill Gate
The Libyan artist has studios in both Cairo and London, and finds the colours of each city seeping into her intricate textile work
In his east London studio, the Scottish artist blocks out the neighbourhood chaos with noise-cancelling headphones and tennis commentary
On the eve of a major US survey, the artist talks to Apollo about decorating statues and the ornamental side of the British Empire
The Polish artist prefers to work alone in his Kraków studio, where the silence was recently disturbed by a visiting hornet
The only drawback of the Scottish painter’s New York studio is that he’ll have to leave it next year. In the meantime, he’s enjoying the quiet, undisturbed by a taxidermied pheasant
The painter and printmaker maintains a flexible routine at her church-like studio in Harare, which sits between a mountain and a dried-up riverbed
Eleanor Pinfield, director of Art on the Underground, talks to Apollo about the excitements and challenges of commissioning art for a subterranean audience
At Hatchlands Park in Surrey, Alec Cobbe lives with the likes of Guercino, Allori and Titian – a fitting collection for the Renaissance man he is
The Old Master drawings collector has described herself as ‘an undisciplined cockapoo’ when it comes to buying – but each piece must be of the highest calibre
The broadcaster and new president of the Twentieth Century Society talks about conserving the built environment and making people feel it matters
While working in his studio in Berlin, the German painter spends hours staring at the wall, listening to reggae and beholding his gogotte
Nicola Lees, director of the Aspen Art Museum, tells Apollo how the ‘Serpentine in the mountains’ is turning artists into leaders
The Norwegian monarch may be the subject of Warhol silkscreens, but when it comes to collecting she looks much closer to home
Craig Burnett talks to the Canadian artist whose enigmatic sculptures, collages and silent videos encourage viewers to think for themselves
The artist talks to Apollo about sifting through the museum’s collection to piece together how mental disorders were experienced and treated in the 19th century
The painter from Philadelphia still lives in the city, where she works in a converted high school, on an easel that belonged to an artist she grew up admiring
The artist works in near silence on her hyperreal paintings in her Berlin studio, which she keeps as empty as possible
The artist talks to Apollo about how paint can conceal any number of mysteries in a seemingly straightforward portrait
The sculptor prefers not to have visitors in her sunlit studio in Brooklyn, where she tests materials and rereads books that have influenced her
