At the Kennel Club: the world’s largest collection of doggy art
The Mayfair institution contains scores of paintings of dogs who had jobs and some rather more pampered pets
The Mayfair institution contains scores of paintings of dogs who had jobs and some rather more pampered pets
The Pop sculptor shot to fame in the 1960s, but her determination not to be pigeonholed confounded many critics
The Wellcome Collection’s sprawling show has a lot in common with a busy department store and proves that the beauty industry can be an exhausting business
The artist painted countless variations of a white square, but repetitive strain was never really an issue
The retouching of Diana Cecil’s portrait has drawn comparisons with the enhancements of Kylie Jenner – but it says more about changing beauty standards
The Pogues frontman and the Romantic painter are forever linked by a classic album cover – and much more besides
The National Gallery in London presents the first major exhibition to be dedicated to the often-overlooked artist
Mediocre results for the November auctions in New York suggest that the auction-houses have put too many eggs in the same kind of basket
The lessons learned by the city’s painters in the 1500s brought about radical new forms of expression
The artist could be a touch wooden at times, but a survey in Dublin shows that his best work is full of theatrical flair
The flurry of exhibitions focusing on women artists is very welcome – as long as they avoid reinforcing tired old narratives
Apollo’s wine columnist tasted many excellent wines this year, but half a dozen were outstanding
<i>One Woman Show</i> is a novel about a socialite’s progress through the 20th century, told in the style of wall labels you might find at the Met
Jean-Étienne Liotard depicted the same scene first in pastel, then 23 years later in oils – and both versions can be savoured for a time at the National Gallery in London
The seedier side of city life has captured the imaginations of artists throughout the decades
This long overdue retrospective shows that there was very little Nicolas de Staël coudn’t do as a painter
Frances Morris
The Antiguan-born painter spent his final years living off the land, but his scenes of paradise are more complicated than they seem
Cause and effect is hard to pin down, but a certain type of celebrity association does seem to affect the value of a work of art
Barbra Streisand’s doorstopper of a memoir suggests that the real love of the star’s life is the painter Modigliani