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Back to the future – how AI is simplifying the art world

Vincent van Gogh National Museum Oslo

Artificial intelligence is transforming our ability to detect forgeries – which, as Arte Generali CEO Jean Gazançon tells Apollo, provides more security for collectors than ever before

Fit for a queen? The quirkiest Jubilee tributes

English Heritage, via Twitter

As the country prepares for a blowout, Rakewell takes a look at some of the more peculiar ways in which people are marking the occasion

Janine Burrows: Table to Tide: A Yorkshire Conversation

The Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents the local artist’s depictions of everything from her back garden to the Whitby coastline

Picasso – El Greco

The Kunstmuseum Basel explores the modernist’s long-standing obsession with the Old Master

Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection

The Met presents a look at the evolution of the kimono from the late Edo period through to the early 20th century

Tacita Dean

Pan Amicus (detail of video still; 2021), Tacita Dean. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris/Frith Street Gallery, London; © 2021 Tacita Dean

The artist presents two works inspired by the sites and collections of the Getty Center in Los Angeles

Acquisitions of the Month: May 2022

This month’s highlights include a silver casket that may have played a part in the downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots

Platinum Jubilee events round-up

Apollo presents a few of the best events and exhibitions put on in honour the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

‘Littered with stumbling blocks’ – Cornelia Parker at Tate Britain, reviewed

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Island (2022), Cornelia Parker. Installation view at Tate Britain, London, in 2022. Courtesy Tate. Photo: Oli Cowling

The British artist’s retrospective might appear visually weighty, but the work pays little attention to the history and politics of the materials used

In the studio with… AA Bronson

The Berlin-based artist sees no division between his life and work – his apartment is filled to the brim with artworks, books and the objects he collects

The crème de la crème of bungled art attacks

The Mona Lisa has been smeared with cream cake in an inscrutable act of climate protest

‘You look for your own art history’ – an interview with Isaac Julien

British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien (b.1960), photographed in 2021. Photo: Anne-Katrin Purkiss; © Royal Academy of Arts, London

The artist tells Apollo how his new film for the Barnes Foundation weaves together restitution debates with the history of the Harlem Renaissance

Why are New York’s new skyscrapers so bad?

Central Park Tower and the Steinway Tower on Billionaires’ Row in New York City.

As the Manhattan skyline keeps getting higher, the quality of the skyscrapers crowding the horizon seems to be getting lower and lower

What medieval Christians thought about climate change

Page from the Chronique de Saint Nicholas de Reims (13th century).

Christians in the Middle Ages believed that there was no bad weather in paradise after the Creation and before the Fall of Man

Speed freak – ‘Raphael’ at the National Gallery, reviewed

The artist’s true genius lay in the superhuman pace with which he mastered new styles

Survivors’ gilt – the luxury craftsmen who flourished after the French Revolution

Detail of an advertisement for the Nouvelles Cartes de la République Française

Iris Moon’s account of how masters of the decorative arts adapted to turbulent times is a suitably unsettling affair

The British photographers who took their visual cues from the Grand Tour

Colosseum, Rome (c. 1855), James Anderson.

Victorian photographers in Italy were inevitably influenced by forms of landscape painting made popular in the preceding century

Eternal fame – the world of the Kushite pharaohs

The Louvre’s latest exhibition has revived the vast ancient empire that once united Sudan and Egypt

Drawn to greatness – the personal collection of Katrin Bellinger

Katrin Bellinger photographed in her print room in London in May 2022. Behind her are drawings by Anne Guéret and Gjisbertus Johannus van den Berg.

Once a renowned dealer in Old Master drawings, Bellinger’s own collection includes all kinds of works on paper and oils – and she’s committed to sharing what she has

‘This is a new Winslow Homer for our time’

The Gulf Stream (detail; 1899), Winslow Homer.

The Met’s new survey reveals a more dramatic, more political side to the American painter

Around the galleries – BRAFA lights up Brussels, plus other highlights

Barn scene with a man courting a young woman and several figures (detail; 1681), David Teniers II.

Despite its position in this summer’s packed calendar, the Belgian art fair is confident in its unique offering

Off the grid – the side of Mondrian you’ve never seen before

Detail of Trafalgar Square by Piet Mondrian

A completely overlooked painting, left out of the artist’s catalogue raisonné, makes the case for an unexpectedly messier and much more interesting career

Grand designs – how Gio Ponti transformed Palazzo Bo

The University of Padua may be 800 years old, but this ancient institution is also home to masterpieces of 20th-century design

A closer look at William Kent’s gilded ceilings at Houghton Hall

With a new book dedicated to William Kent’s Houghton Hall ceilings, Apollo takes a closer look at the depiction of Venus in the Green Velvet Drawing Room