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Review: ‘Basic Design: A Revolution in Art Education’ at the Hatton Gallery

Art education has come a long way since the 1950s. Is the Basic Design ‘revolution’ a little dated?

Review: CRW Nevinson’s ‘Rebel Visions’ at the Barber Institute

A small but powerful collection of Nevinson’s visions of war

Shortlist: Acquisition of the Year

Some of the most noteworthy additions to museum collections

A Gallery of Mysteries: Phoenix Art Museum’s unidentified artists

Nobody knows who did them, but why should that stop us appreciating these works?

From the mass market to the museum: ‘Warhol Mania’ in Montreal

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Warhol not only made art about mass consumption, he made art for mass consumption too

Anri Sala wins the Vincent Award 2014

The artist was announced the winner at a ceremony at the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

Shortlist: Book of the Year

The Apollo Book of the Year Award recognises publications that have contributed significantly to their field

Review: Moroni’s self-conscious sitters at the Royal Academy

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Moroni is a master of fine fabrics and awkward expressions

Curators pick seven highlights from ‘A Traveler’s Eye’

We asked the curators of the Arthur M. Sackler gallery’s latest show to pick their favourite exhibits

Muse Reviews: 23 November

Paul Nash’s watercolours; Manet and contemporary art; photographers’ contact sheets; and Beatrice Gibson’s disorderly films

Shortlist: Exhibition of the Year

Museum exhibitions can be revelatory events. Our shortlist celebrates some of the most significant recent shows

The Week’s Muse: 22 November

The Apollo Awards; Scandinavian art in London; and the mixed fortunes of New Contemporaries

Review: ‘Beatrice Gibson, F For Fibonacci’ at Laura Bartlett Gallery

Gibson’s disorderly video picks up and plays with William Gaddis’s biting satire of a book, ‘JR’

Book Competition

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‘Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars’ by Catherine Speck

Diary: November Apollo

On the mixed fortunes of New Contemporaries

Art Outlook: 20 November

News from the art world: art awards, auction records, and a royal stamp of approval

Picking the picture: Magnum Contact Sheets at C/O Berlin

It’s riveting to see the choices and accidents that produced some of history’s most iconic photographs

Shortlist: Digital Innovation of the Year

Which arts institutions and organisations are making the best use of digital technology?

Gallery: The Berthouville Treasure at the Getty Villa

A group of exceptional ancient Roman silver vessels has been cleaned up and put on display in Malibu

‘A Victorian Obsession: The Pérez Simón Collection’ at Leighton House

For the first time, the permanent collection at Leighton House is being cleared for a display of Victorian art

Shortlist: Museum Opening of the Year

Every year, Apollo celebrates outstanding achievements in the art world: we’re pleased to announce the first shortlist…

Scandinavian Art in the UK

Scandinavian artists from Peder Balke to Ida Ekblad feature in UK exhibitions this winter. Which should you watch out for?

Gallery: Peder Balke

Highlights from the National Gallery’s exhibition of the 19th-century Norwegian landscapes

Peder Balke’s Arctic landscapes in the National Gallery

A little known 19th-century Norwegian painter is being touted as a ‘forerunner of modernism’