A museum devoted to the instant noodle has opened in Hong Kong – but it’s not the first time that ramen has been put to creative uses
Portraits were used to further friendships – and as networking opportunities – in Enlightenment France
The Tretyakov Gallery hosts the first exhibition to compare how Romanticism took root in Russia and Germany
The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid hosts a survey spanning the American artist’s long and fruitful career
The Toledo Museum of Art explores the Enlightenment craze for all things ornithological
This survey at the Gropius Bau invites visitors to explore full reconstructions of the artist’s historic shows
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
The Scottish painter Caroline Walker offers a glimpse inside her north London studio – where she’s kept company by slugs, spiders and cuddly toys
Dia Art Foundation’s support for ambitious experimental artists is as resolute as ever, its director Jessica Morgan tells Apollo
The artist recently moved into a new studio overlooking a cemetery in Hackney – the view’s great, but there is a minor mosquito problem
Traditional boatyards and boat-building techniques have long been in decline – but the pandemic has only worsened the situation
On the bicentenary of the poet’s birth, his art criticism still hums with outrage
Apollo’s editors pick out the shows they’re most looking forward to visiting in coming weeks
Francis Bacon’s work reveals an endless fascination with animals – and the bestial side of human nature
In 2006, Jonathan Yeo painted Prince Philip’s portrait – an invigorating if at times nerve-wracking experience
Plus: French galleries are suing the government to reopen, Egypt moves its royal mummies in a a televised extravaganza, and more stories
Rakewell suspects that Leonardo would have loved the invention of film and TV, but what would he have made of Aidan Turner, aka Ross Poldark, playing him?
What does art smell like? The Mauritshuis’s new fragrance box helps you to sniff out an answer at home
A retrospective at the Whitney shows how the photographer has brought marginalised American communities into view
Two new books offer complementary perspectives – the macro and the micro – on the modern museum
A display of remixes by Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi at Cleveland Museum of Art
The National Gallery of Victoria shows how artists took to the outback to reimagine the national landscape en plein air
An exhibition examining Black experience in America is powerful if piecemeal – and is necessarily exhausting
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