Rachel Cohen talks to Apollo about the reissue of ‘A Chance Meeting’, her inventive account of more than a century of artistic endeavour in the United States
The designer’s wallpaper patterns are so familiar that they’re in danger of being taken for granted – but there’s still plenty to discover if we look more closely
Tim Blanning’s masterful biography demonstrates that the despotic ruler of Saxony and Poland was rubbish at war, but had absolutely fabulous taste in art
After a period of pandalessness and at the end of a momentous week in the nation’s capital, the Smithsonian National Zoo presented two new visitors from China to the public
A retrospective by the textile artist is wonderfully open to interpretation, with works so inviting you might want to throw yourself at them
Plus: Artnet founder to retire after three decades | painter Jo Baer has died at the age of 95 | and insurers refuse pay out to owners of fake Basquiats
The Nelson-Atkins Museum presents recent photographic acquisitions that explore community and tradition in the United States
Artists from Canada and Scandinavia have long been drawn to the beauty of boreal forests, as this show at the Fondation Beyeler attests
During Slovenia’s period of national emancipation artists absorbed influences from Western Europe while retaining a distinctive style
From colourful landscapes to quasi-cubist works, Brazilian art in the mid 20th century was full of verve
The buildings are reaching ‘a worrying level of obsolescence’, writes Laurence des Cars to the French minister of culture, Rachida Dati
Artefacts looted by British soldiers from the Asante kingdom in the 19th century can now be seen in Ghana, but are loans from UK museums nearly enough?
The identity of two terracotta busts attributed to Guido Mazzoni may be up for debate, but there’s no denying the emotional possibilities of the material in which they’re made
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan’s exhibition about the capital’s lost green spaces yields a rich crop of curiosities
The film-maker was always an original but what makes his work unforgettable – and inspiring to other artists – is its radical sincerity
Works from diverse periods, schools and places rub shoulders at the long-running Brussels event and help keep things fresh
In his memoir, the Pope praises masterpieces of Italian neorealism by Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini – and defends Fellini with some assistance from Pasolini
Plus: Des Moines Art Center settles with land artist Mary Miss | Martina Droth is the new director of the Yale Center for British Art | Bonnie Brennan is the new CEO of Christies
The scholar’s meticulously preserved apartment in Rome testifies to his passion for all things 19th century, and to how he treated collecting as a form of memoir
A chance to get up close with illuminated manuscripts and discover the often madcap ways in which medieval illustrators viewed foreign lands
The Louvre celebrates its recent acquisition of a rediscovered work by the painter whom Vasari called the ‘first light’ of Renaissance art
Gladiator fights took place on this scepter’d isle too, as an exhibition of archaeological finds at Dorset Museum attests
Seventy-five artworks were transported to Berlin from Odesa when Ukraine was invaded by Russia – and they are now on display at the Gemäldegalerie
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