Man about town – around modern London with Ian Nairn
A reissue of the architectural critic’s guide to new buildings in the capital is just as fresh as it was 60 years ago
A reissue of the architectural critic’s guide to new buildings in the capital is just as fresh as it was 60 years ago
The country is keen to rebrand by promoting its art and architecture – and the modernist buildings of its capital Tashkent are part of the plan
A 30m-long painting presents the Kiangxi Emperor touring southern China, says Clarissa von Spee of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Among the collector’s many objects is one of the most important holdings of antique textiles in private hands
A vineyard-meets-sculpture park in Franciacorta makes wine truly a multisensory affair
How the Italian city became a site of stylistic innovation
Wonders that were once prized by Renaissance princes still inspire plenty of awe
Nearly a century and a half after the painter’s trip to the Channel Islands, his paintings of Guernsey can now be compared to the actual views
The film-maker Neville d’Almeida recalls his friendship with Hélio Oiticica and how they broke down the barriers between work and play and between film and art
The dealer has made his name through antiquities, Old Master sculptures and modern British art – but when it comes to his own collection, it’s the Islamic world that sets his heart alight
Dr Glaire Anderson of Edinburgh University explains how she helped bring Islamic art and architecture to life for the latest version of the video game
Paintings of women by Rubens at Dulwich Picture Gallery and an installation by Julianknxx at the Barbican are among the shows not to miss this year
The first Frieze Art Fair in 2003 made the capital cool again – but how much does it matter now, 20 years on?
The painter was no prodigy but, as Bart Cornelis of the National Gallery in London tells Apollo, he was soon making up for lost time with his bold brushwork
The opening of a whole new suite of galleries means that Scottish artists now have the same status as the museum’s Old Masters
Seven leading curators, art advisors and gallerists look back on the launch of the London event and consider how relevant it is today
The painter was often forthright in his rejection of the old world – but it’s time to reconsider his European influences
The shortlisted artists highlight the fragility of the existing order, with the best of them upending what we expect from a show in a gallery
Sameer Rahim is impressed by a 16th-century Iranian manuscript illustrating a Sufi poem of seduction and spiritualism
The history of Palestinian dress is inseparable from that of the nation itself – and now the subject of an invaluable exhibition