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In the Library: Latin American Architecture in Circulation

Architectural photographs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. reveal a meeting of Indigenous and colonial styles

Turner in January

In Edinburgh, the Royal Scottish Academy is seeing in the new year with its annual display of Turner’s watercolours

Cosmism: Images from a Future Gathering

The Stedelijk Museum looks at how the futuristic philosophy of Nikolai Fyodorov left its mark on the arts at the turn of the 20th century

A collector with a nose for fine wine and fine art

Henning Hoesch is a winemaker with a habit of making distinctions that extends to his collection of Old Master drawings

The museum openings not to miss in 2024

Notre Dame is to reopen, the Frick Collection is returning to Fifth Avenue and Scotland celebrates a pair of new or improved institutions

‘He made visible the invisible forces that govern the universe’ – a tribute to Giovanni Anselmo (1934–2023)

Giovanni Anselmo. Photo: Chris Felver; courtesy Archivio Giovanni Anselmo ETS

A leading member of the Arte Povera movement, the artist stood out among his peers for his wit, imagination and interest in elemental forces

The birth of Impressionism and the centenary of Surrealism – major art anniversaries in 2024

The marking of two seminal movements and a year-long celebration of Caspar David Friedrich combine scholarly heft with popular appeal

How the Bauhaus exiles shaped a new urban landscape

The westward spread of modernist design between the wars was shaped by the migrant experience

The godmothers of conceptual art take centre stage – contemporary highlights in 2024

Yoko Ono and Sophie Calle are the subject of major retrospectives while museums also have more material concerns

The fearless gaze of Agnès Varda

An exhibition at the Cinémathèque française doesn’t shy away from the film-maker’s political side

The passion projects of Dorothy Iannone

Work by the artist who painted herself as a sex goddess sits uneasily within the category of feminist art – and is all the better for being discomforting

Bottle royale – a new look for Napoleon’s favourite champagne

Daniel Arsham has distilled centuries of history into his design for a bottle for Moët & Chandon’s new cuvée

Unfolding the origins of an Ethiopian icon

Christine Sciacca of the Walters Art Museum explains how a processional icon of surprisingly modern design was made and what it means

What’s in store for the art market in 2024?

After a period of mediocre post-pandemic growth, what will the next year bring? Apollo’s columnist peers through the mists to make some predictions

Building Indian modernism in Ahmedabad

The Sarabhai family were great patrons of modernist architecture in the city – and Gira Sarabhai’s contribution in particular deserves to be better known

Arty films to look out for in 2024

New features by Steve McQueen, Kelly Reichardt and Joshua Oppenheimer will give art lovers plenty to get excited about

Breath of fresh air – Gerhard Richter in the Alps

Three exhibitions in the Engadin Valley explore how the Swiss mountains have inspired some of the painter’s most playful work

Old Masters prove lacklustre at auction – but a late medieval painter is golden

A newly attributed Rembrandt failed to hit the heights at Sotheby’s, but Pietro Lorenzetti pushed up the bidding in Paris

The geese of Christmas past

The festive bird has often been served up by artists and writers including J.M.W. Turner and Charles Dickens

Major leadership changes in Italian museums

Uffizi director Eike Schmidt in front of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, at the reopening of the gallery’s room dedicated to the artist in 2016. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images

Plus: the Academy of Arts in Berlin warns against violations of civil liberties in Germany and the Met returns 14 trafficked artefacts to Cambodia and Thailand

From manuscripts to memes, and back again

Olivia Swarthout has turned her hit social media accounts about medieval marginalia into a book. After recent digital disruptions, paper seems like an increasingly safe bet

At the Kennel Club: the world’s largest collection of doggy art

The Mayfair institution contains scores of paintings of dogs who had jobs and some rather more pampered pets

David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive

A survey in Chicago shows how the photographer captured the complexities of South African society under and after apartheid

Kim Lim: Space, Rhythm & Light

The Hepworth Wakefield celebrates the Singapore-born sculptor who developed a distinctive form of minimalism in post-war Britain