Vein glorious: an epic history of marble, reviewed
For millennia, marble was taken to be a gleaming reflection of the heavens – and, in Fabio Barry’s new book, it regains its divine mysteries
For millennia, marble was taken to be a gleaming reflection of the heavens – and, in Fabio Barry’s new book, it regains its divine mysteries
Plus: National Gallery in London launches design competition to rethink Sainsbury Wing, and more stories
Dineo Seshee Bopape’s installation art sets drawings and videos alongside everyday materials – so that objects start to dance in a ‘disco of effects’
Warburg brought together Greek gods and golfers, antiquities and airships – and in reconstruction, his puzzling arrangements of images are as suggestive as ever
After the Botticelli, another great Florentine portrait looks set to fetch millions – but it hasn’t always been so highly valued
As the future of one of Edinburgh’s greatest buildings hangs in the balance, we republish Gavin Stamp’s call from 2015 to preserve its architectural integrity
Did Raphael know a bream from a sardine? Tessa Murdoch consults her fishmonger
Georg Baselitz says it makes the viewer pay closer attention – but plenty of paintings have simply been upended due to gallerists’ gaffes
Serena Williams has opened up her private art gallery to Architectural Digest – and she’s not the first tennis star to have courted the art world
The Torlonia marbles make for the greatest private collection of Roman antiquities in existence – and they're finally on view to the public
From his sitting room in west London, the Manila-born artist created a vital space for avant-garde artists and writers
Mid-pandemic, the art critic Andrew Russeth moved from New York to Seoul. His first stop out of quarantine? A museum, of course
Federico Zuccari’s illustrations of the Divine Comedy have seldom been shown. But the Uffizi has put them online – and Dante’s poem has never looked better
The renowned art dealer has died at the age of 91. In March 2014, he opened up his extraordinary private art collection to Apollo, in an interview republished in full here
In her Tarot Garden in Tuscany, the French-American artist let her imagination run riot
What do decades of neglect look like? For the Houses of Parliament, a repair bill upwards of £12 billion
With an eye for ritual, the photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews celebrates an unfamiliar vision of the river
Without Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion models, science-fiction films wouldn't look like they do today
Kara Walker’s fountain at Tate Modern plays a starring role in FKA Twigs’ new video – and it’s not the first artwork to have a brush with the charts
With lockdown boredom well and truly setting in, it’s time to stick the kids – with their crayons – in front of a museum website