The ballet that woke up post-war Britain
Oliver Messel’s rococo sets for ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ at the Royal Opera House represented a new dawn for dance
Oliver Messel’s rococo sets for ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ at the Royal Opera House represented a new dawn for dance
The recently appointed director of fairs and exhibition platforms tells Apollo why he is taking a light-touch approach to running the world’s biggest art fair
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly the Albright-Knox, reopens with a strong sense of civic purpose and a firm commitment to modern art
Rakewell isn’t about to quit the city to stake it all on a monster hunt – but there have been some significant sightings in museum collections
The foundation should never have pursued the copyright case against Lynn Goldsmith and it should be grateful it lost
Six leading figures in the art world discuss the challenges of collecting and showing video art
The performance artist explains why he loves being from Iceland and takes us on a tour of public sculpture in his hometown
The 12th edition of the event tackles the city’s complicated colonial histories
The Holburne Museum engages in a clever bit of matchmaking, with rarely shown paintings and all kinds of love tokens
From Keith Sonnier in Florida to Richard Serra in London, we have put together a list of minimalist masterpieces to see this week
The much-debated new displays suffer from weak artworks, tokenism and terrible lighting
Edward Behrens on the finalists for this year’s Loewe Foundation Craft Prize
This richly coloured glass is a window to a key moment in the history of science and of princely patronage, says the Rijksmuseum’s curator Maartje Brattinga
A publicity shoot for ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’ caught the photographer and his subject at an unusually vulnerable moment
The painter went to great lengths to make her careful compositions look effortlessly spontaneous
The Sainsbury Centre’s new director is taking a more touchy-feely approach to displaying the permanent collection
After a period in the doldrums, pieces by the best 18th-century makers are back in demand
The country has been producing wines for centuries, but they are only now getting the global recognition they deserve
Larry Silver’s history of how northern European artists depicted other cultures could have taken a broader view
The reconstruction of cities devastated by the Second World War took radically different forms, depending on the circumstances