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Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela (1928–1978)

Luis Sánchez Olivares 'El Diamante Negro'(1952), Alfredo Boulton. Getty Research Institute

The Getty Center makes a case for the critic and photographer’s important role in the development of art history in his home country

The eye-popping posters that promoted Egyptian films

The Egyptian film industry came to dominate the Arab world – and poster makers did much to secure its hold on the popular imagination

Can selling artworks in small pieces yield big dividends?

A new breed of business is offering investors shares in blue-chip artworks – and making big claims about their profitability

Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line

Crease from the series 'In the exodus, I love you more' (2014–ongoing), Hoda Afshar. Courtesy the artist; © Hoda Afshar

The Iranian artist’s arresting images illuminate displaced communities and experiences of migration

Chaïm Soutine: Against the Current

The Groom (detail; 1925), Chaïm Soutine. Centre Pompidou, Paris. Courtesy bpk/CNAC-MNAM/Philippe Migeat

The emigré artist bucked the trends he encountered in 1920s Paris to carve out his own path

Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s

How radical new ways of making art emerged in the period following the Korean war

Four things to see: The art of exploration

On the anniversary of Captain Cook’s first voyage to Australia, we consider the history of exploration through four objects including a map of sea monsters and a robot used for navigation

The return of the retro ice-cream van

retro ice-cream

The vintage trucks in London’s parks provide soft serve with an outsize dollop of nostalgia – and do it in style

Can Helsinki’s modern architecture grow old gracefully?

Amos Rex museum Helsinki

Finland’s questing version of modernism, as championed by Alvar Aalto, went hand in hand with the development of social democracy

Gertrude Jekyll and the making of Munstead Wood

The view of Munstead Wood house across the west lawn.

The first garden created by the designer for a house by Edwin Lutyens has been bought by the National Trust – preserving a vital piece of history

Around the galleries – British Art Fair welcomes a fresh crop of collectors

Under new owners, this stalwart of the London fair calendar shows that a focus on British art needn’t be parochial

The laws regarding Native American remains leave too much up to museums

In the absence of clearer rules, institutions should obey the spirit and not just the letter of the law – and be more careful with material they may have to return

The Scottish artist who could paint up a storm

From the September 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. I first encountered William McTaggart’s The Storm (1890) when…

British Museum sacks staff member accused of stealing from collections

Plus: the gallerist Angela Flowers has died at the age of 90 and the Orlando Museum of Art is suing its former director over an alleged scheme to sell forged Basquiats

A night to remember at the Eiffel Tower

It has been a monumental week for Paris’s leading tourist attraction. Let us hope recent events have distracted La Dame de Fer from an unhappy matter of the heart

Taking a Stand: Käthe Kollwitz

Works by the German artist with a lifelong commitment to social justice are juxtaposed with installations by Mona Hatoum

Jessie Kleemann: Running Time

The Greenlandic artist has spent three decades challenging the colonisation and romanticisation of her homeland

Eternal Medium: Seeing the World in Stone

The Los Angeles County Museum shows that stone isn’t just a material to be shaped, but also something to be painted upon

Graphic Design in the Middle Ages

The Getty explores how design considerations shaped the interpretation of medieval texts

The case for and against Werner Herzog

The Eye Filmmuseum highlights the madness of the director’s methods and how beautiful the finished films are – and leaves us to make up our own minds about it all

Four things to see: The power of the witch

How tales of witchcraft have spellbound artists and makers for centuries

How to manage a museum

A book by Daniel H. Weiss, outgoing president and CEO of the Met, offers a public-spirited view of how a changing world can benefit from the constancy of large institutions

The gilded pages of Evelyn De Morgan

At Leighton House, intricate gold drawings by the Pre-Raphaelite artist reveal her great debt to Italian sources

Michael Rakowitz puts down roots on Tyneside

The Iraqi-American artist has been working with migrant communities in the north-east to create a garden and greenhouse at the Baltic Centre