Who will make a killing from Messi’s contract?
The maestro’s first contract with FC Barcelona, written on a napkin, has been withdrawn from auction after a dispute between his current and former agents
The maestro’s first contract with FC Barcelona, written on a napkin, has been withdrawn from auction after a dispute between his current and former agents
Part biographical survey, part crash-course in Lacanian thought, an exhibition about the psychoanalyst’s links to art could do with a sharper focus
Maarten van Heemskerck’s expert renderings of Rome inspired his countrymen to see the city for themselves
Though some regard it as provocative, it’s fairer to say that the museum’s sprucing-up of its paintings galleries is thought-provoking
The artist’s vast body of work is full of daring conceits and tantalising contradictions
There are delightful discoveries to be made at this year’s event, but sometimes the central exhibition fizzles where it should spark
The writer’s survey of interwar architecture is a monumental achievement that reminds us that modernism was only part of the 20th-century story
The Louvre looks at the ancient history that inspired a French aristocrat to create a modern form of the Olympic Games
From the recent history of Timor-Leste to world-building in Bulgaria, this year’s shows present a rich and varied cross-section of contemporary art from around the world
At the age of 65, the artist went to Rome a painter and returned to the United States a sculptor. It wasn’t the first time the city had changed him
An exhibition in Antwerp celebrates the Belgian painter’s cosmic canvases – but it’s the 15th-century artworks hanging nearby that really put his achievements into perspective
The Norwegian painter was referring to Ibsen’s play 'Ghosts' when he painted his dream-like landscape of 1906
Despite the painstaking research that underpins the artist’s work, there’s nothing dry about its outcomes – as visitors to the Canadian Pavilion in Venice will discover
The director of the 2024 Biennale talks to Apollo about the challenges the event faces and why he is sanguine about the changing political tides
The artists may have spoken about voids and infinities, but the market for their work has stayed satisfyingly solid
Now 20 years old, the country house museum in Warwickshire has developed a distinctive approach to collecting – and it’s paying off handsomely
The British-Nigerian artist is exhibiting new and old works at the Serpentine, in his first institutional show in London in two decades
Despite being separated by more than a century, the two photographers shared a distinctly hazy aesthetic
Do digital techniques to enliven familiar paintings help or hinder our understanding of the art at hand?
A new life of the auteur lays bare the obsessiveness behind his films and what it cost everyone around him