As museums make promises to return looted works of art, provenance is now of paramount importance in the market
The American artist’s studio is split across two rooms – an office and an atelier – in her apartment in Berlin. It is a space ruled by harmony, she says.
The South London Gallery brings together works by 14 artists to reflect on the end of the world
The Hessel Museum takes a look at Dara Birnbaum’s long-standing fascination with popular culture
Early sketches and paintings from the artist’s time in the city are on show at the Kunsthistorisches Museum
The Getty Center in Los Angeles explores how the Middle Ages have influenced everything from Harry Potter to Game of Thrones
Plus: Smithsonian board votes to return 29 Benin Bronzes | UK places a temporary export bar on £19m Poussin painting | Marina Lambraki-Plaka, the director of the National Gallery in Athens, has died at the age of 83
Rakewell despairs at the recent announcement that K-pop sensation BTS are taking a hiatus. Is this really the end?
The American artist’s ‘Black Chapel’ is an imposing addition to the manicured lawns of Kensington Gardens but is it where you’ll find perfection?
The graphic designer Jean Carlu was the first artist to create a label for the historic wine estate in 1924, marking the beginning of a long-standing tradition
As the UK falls behind in the global market, Jane Morris considers the route to reclaiming its competitive status
They’re now little more than popular amusements – but with their discomfiting realism, wax effigies were once considered fit for royalty
The atmosphere of the Paris-based artist’s studio depends on the work she is creating – at times it is a sanctuary and at others a battlefield
In attempting to give an account of ‘feminine power’ through the ages, the British Museum raises far more questions than it answers
The Clark Art Institute explores how the French sculptor’s reception among American collectors and critics has shifted over the decades
The Belvedere pays homage to the German-Austrian painter with a knack for capturing sunlight over the mountains of southern Italy
The Courtauld shines a light on the work of draughtsmen who helped to transform the 16th century Flemish print trade
The artist’s five-screen installation explores the legacy of Albert C. Barnes to mark the centenary of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia
Rakewell wonders whether Apollo readers can corroborate the recent and rather bewildering claim that the British sculptor has been stealing his neighbour’s bins
The subject of football and all its attendant paraphernalia makes for a surprisingly joyful exhibition
The Portuguese-British painter renowned worldwide for her vivid and unsettling fairy-tale visions has died at the age of 87
The monetary value of preparatory studies was slight in the Renaissance – but for the ideas they contained, they were worth their weight in gold
The 87-year-old American painter has never much cared what the critics think – which means that no subject is off limits to him
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