Swimming and style – a brief history
The Design Museum’s deep dive into swimming shows that people have always felt the urge to get into the water, for survival, sport or fun
The Design Museum’s deep dive into swimming shows that people have always felt the urge to get into the water, for survival, sport or fun
As a selection of her essays makes clear, the eminent art historian has always been committed to looking as a means of understanding
Owen Hatherley talks to Apollo about his new book, ‘The Alienation Effect’
At Pitzhanger Manor, eerie paintings by the Scottish artist commune with its architect’s taste for pared-back eccentricity
Artists were just as dedicated to the avant-garde as their peers in architecture and music, but were the results of their efforts as radical?
An accomplished musician as well as a painter, Lorenzo Costa was perfectly placed to capture the changing fashions and shifting social etiquette of his day
The 19th-century painter’s landscapes captured the beauty of the Valley of Mexico as well as the growth of industrial production
This week marks 100 years since John Logie Baird demonstrated the first television; we explore four works that make the most out of this now-ubiquitous medium
Clad in the symbolic designs of artist and founder Barthélémy Toguo, the arts centre in Cameroon is breaking new ground
Canadian and Scandinavian painters approached their respective landscapes in distinctive ways and with differing levels of realism
With new leadership and restored rooms that haven’t looked this good since the Ancien Régime, the palace is entering a new golden era
Plus: chair of National Endowment for the Humanities steps down after presidential pressure and far-right Greek MP arrested after allegedly vandalising art in National Gallery
The club has announced plans to build the biggest football stadium in the world, but can a piece of architecture really solve its ongoing identity crisis?
The Albertina puts the British artist’s debt to Old Masters and Christian iconography in the spotlight
On Pi Day, the annual celebration of the ever-fascinating mathematical constant, we round up four artworks that make the most out of the humble circle
The Isokon Building has become an architectural icon, but its own history is full of scandal and Central European emigrés
The American artist explains how he looks to his own past to create his devilishly inventive films, paintings and installations
William Andrews Nesfield was a military man who designed elaborate schemes that sum up what people mean when they talk about Victorian formal gardens
Plus: Bernd Ebert appointed director of the Dresden State Paintings Collections and long-lost Brueghel found in Dutch museum
While museums are desperate to stop climate actions involving works of art, a gallery in London has put defaced paintings front and centre, tomato soup and all