Robert Macfarlane is fascinated by a watery bronze by British sculptor Laurence Edwards
The Met takes the well-trodden story of chinoiserie over the centuries and gives it a welcome feminist twist
The distinctive London cinemas designed by George Coles in the 1930s were like Hawksmoor churches for the celluloid age
Is it time for the Smithsonian pandas to roll over? An agreement with Saudi Arabia means there‘s a new mammalian ambassador in town
Plus: chair of Creative Australia resigns in Venice Biennale controversy | directors of Jewish museum in Washington condemn murder of Israeli embassy staff outside building
In his teeming depiction of animals about to enter the ark, Jan van Kessel put an inventive spin on an original by his grandfather, Jan Brueghel the Elder
This year’s festival is the largest edition yet, but a display of outsize ambition doesn’t resolve its internal contradictions
The Frist Museum considers the mercantile republic as a melting pot, where foreign fashions, customs and food were readily absorbed
The Morgan Library shows that, although she didn’t own a camera until she was 48, Cameron nudged photography into the realm of fine art
The Prado’s survey of one of the great painters of 16th-century Venice also considers his influences – and the artists he influenced in turn
Even as the military dictatorship repressed civil society in the 1960s, artists resisted the pressure to conform
The sculptor prefers not to have visitors in her sunlit studio in Brooklyn, where she tests materials and rereads books that have influenced her
The Singaporean playwright talks to Apollo about dramatising the return of a fictional statue from the British Museum to China
Long overshadowed by art from the post-war period, the work of the preceding generation is attracting interest again
The 19th-century painter’s views of the Valley of Mexico are at once scientific documents and odes to a landscape in flux
The artist talks to Apollo about his latest paintings, which are filling in for two works by the Old Master in San Giorgio Maggiore
Plus: UK government puts export bar on Botticelli painting | Lindokuhle Sobekwa wins Deutsche Börse photography prize
With the beloved Long Island store BookHampton bought up by the super gallerist, will the summer crowd’s reading material take an artier turn?
Artists’ books come in all shapes, sizes and unusual formats, as this exhibition at the Warburg Institute makes clear
The British Museum presents artefacts of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism and explores how all three faiths changed over centuries
The biophysicist Arthur Solomon built up a formidable art collection that is now on display in Cambridge
Though best known for her moveable sculptures and performance pieces, the Brazilian artist covered a lot of artistic ground
In MoMA’s mammoth survey, the abstract painter’s desire to question everything comes across loud and clear
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Suzanne Valadon’s shifting gaze
The artist modelled for Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and others, but her own sitters were afforded much more agency