How healthy is London’s contemporary art market?
The first Frieze Art Fair in 2003 made the capital cool again – but how much does it matter now, 20 years on?
The first Frieze Art Fair in 2003 made the capital cool again – but how much does it matter now, 20 years on?
The painter was no prodigy but, as Bart Cornelis of the National Gallery in London tells Apollo, he was soon making up for lost time with his bold brushwork
The opening of a whole new suite of galleries means that Scottish artists now have the same status as the museum’s Old Masters
Seven leading curators, art advisors and gallerists look back on the launch of the London event and consider how relevant it is today
The painter was often forthright in his rejection of the old world – but it’s time to reconsider his European influences
The shortlisted artists highlight the fragility of the existing order, with the best of them upending what we expect from a show in a gallery
Sameer Rahim is impressed by a 16th-century Iranian manuscript illustrating a Sufi poem of seduction and spiritualism
The history of Palestinian dress is inseparable from that of the nation itself – and now the subject of an invaluable exhibition
To mark the painter’s 300th birthday, the Box in Plymouth is staging a thoughtful show that encourages us to look beyond the obvious
In the year’s most unusual tribute to the modernist master, the artist is taking over the museum dedicated to him and filling it with her personal belongings
The adjective 'Rubenesque' was coined in the 19th century, but there’s rather more to the female figures in his paintings than acres of flesh
The sighting of the first beaver kit born in the London area in more than 400 years is a bright spot in the landscape – and a lesson to policymakers everywhere
Emerging in France in the 1720s, this new style gave artists free rein to be as over the top as they liked
The Royal Collection has found a work from the artist’s London years reveals as much about its patron as about the painter
Founding director, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
Ahead of a retrospective at Tate Britain, the artist tells Apollo that swapping the city for rural Suffolk has led her to more primordial themes
While #romanempire has more than a billion view on TikTok, some of us only have eyes for the TV adaptation of ’I Claudius’ – and regrets about the Roman Republic
For painters from Jan van Eyck to Philip Guston, the act of signing a finished work is much more than a simple assertion of authorship
The market for paintings by the likes of John Craxton and John Minton – and Paul Nash in pastoral mode – is having an idyllic time
In the Neue Nationalgalerie’s celebration of the sculptor’s 75th birthday, modernity is never what it used to be