The pioneering conceptual artist, Lawrence Weiner, has died at the age of 79. Born in the Bronx in 1942, Weiner received no formal training as an artist. He dropped out of high school and spent much of his teenage years hitchhiking around America. After arriving in California in the late 1960s, he came into contact […]
Delighted by the fact that the new German culture minister once managed a rock band, Rakewell recalls other culture ministers with an artistic bent
The painter is generally regarded as a Photorealist but, as he tells Apollo, he prefers to see himself as part of the long tradition of view painting
Plus: The new German culture minister is Claudia Roth of the Greens, and a Roman villa complex has been uncovered in Rutland
Adrian Tinniswood’s new book focuses on the aristocrats and rock stars who secured the futures of the houses they owned – or moved into
The artist’s first performance in a decade was a lot, even for the most ‘open-minded’ onlookers
In what now seems like a warning from history, the artist’s only feature film is about a magazine editor who is forced to work at home
A new study assesses 19th-century interventions on paintings by Giotto and other masters, and their impact on art history
In Hong Kong’s increasingly repressive political climate, can the M+ Museum sustain the cultural optimism it once promised?
The vast waterfront complex is a fitting emblem of the painter’s outsized importance to the city
The Transcendental Painting Group in New Mexico was sidelined for its esoteric beliefs, but its members are slowly entering the mainstream
As the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. celebrates its centenary, the museum is also looking firmly to the future
A carved-wood falcon linked to Anne Boleyn and wall paintings in Hertfordshire and Yorkshire are exciting discoveries for our understanding of Tudor England
The Dutch painter already knew the majority of the sitters in his lively portraits of merchants and dignitaries – and it shows
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In 2018, the Lebanese–American painter and poet talked to Apollo about her love of California and the difference between her painting and writing
The British artist has consistently used film as a means of making a statement about painting. But now her chosen medium is urgently in need of saving
Alice Neel: People Come First Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 22 March–1 August In around 100 paintings, drawings and watercolours the largest retrospective of Neel’s work in New York – and the first in 20 years – argued for her as one of the great American painters of the 20th century. The artist’s urgent, […]
A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture, 1540–1640 Mark Girouard Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The eminent architectural historian’s compendium of the people who created English architecture between 1540 and 1640 includes entries about master craftsmen, designers, surveyors and patrons. It is, astonishingly, the first book of its kind. Francis Bacon: Revelations Mark […]