September 2022

Banqueting House is one of the most extraordinary buildings in London – and it’s a huge shame it’s so inaccessible

This year's Documenta is possibly the most challenging edition yet – so why is much of the art market failing to attend?

The Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato di Firenze remains rooted in tradition – but it welcomes some modern sensibilities this year, too

These once-overlooked pieces are making a comeback – and with few on the market, they’re more collectable than ever

The artist's depiction of an 18th-century scientific experiment may reveal an altogether more spiritual concern

Artists have long turned to their children as subjects for their art but with each generation, such work is met with new objections

Andrew Russeth finds that Jeju Island offers everything from a teddy bear museum to masterpieces of modern Korean art

The neglect of the Garden of Tropical Agronomy points to a wider ambivalence about what to do with the city’s colonial sites

The Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, home to some of Perugino’s most important works, can now display its outstanding collection in suitably grand style

Curator Alessandra Griffo of the Uffizi tells Apollo how a remarkable pietra dura table-top would have dazzled visitors to the Medici court

Fresh connections between contemporary art and Old Masters come to the fore in this 400-year-old palace, which has been transformed into a museum and home

The distinctive saucer-shaped glass may have fallen out of fashion, but the story of its invention remains as racy as ever

The first gastronomic map of France may have been created to serve the appetites of greedy Parisians, but it also opened up new ways of eating

Jil Sander is renowned for her minimalist approach to fashion design. And yet the gardens at her country home tells the tale of a more maximalist aesthetic

The artist’s wry installations include everything from cuddly toys to supersized versions of everyday objects. But her art is much tougher than it looks

By making unexpected connections and comparisons, this revelatory show allows the painter’s real achievements to become clearer than they have ever been

We’ve struggled to classify the painter as one of history's greats for very good reason

Dressing up – at balls, fetes and simply for fun – has long provided Britons of all classes with a creative outlet

As two of the British Library’s most beautiful manuscripts show, the art of illustration hit new and extraordinary heights in 15th-century Herat

In ‘Meet Me by the Fountain’, Alexandra Lange uncovers the surprisingly utopian origins of the modern mall and defends it from its critics

Portugal’s period of ascendancy can be charted through the paintings of the times