Striking resemblances – the puppets with a surprisingly political side
Recent industrial action by railworkers in the United Kingdom has got Rakewell thinking about the difference between men and marionettes
Recent industrial action by railworkers in the United Kingdom has got Rakewell thinking about the difference between men and marionettes
The Denver Art Museum reveals another side to the modernist painter through her photographs
Curator James Green takes a close look at a carving by Bamigboye, a sculptor who represented the beating heart of his community in the early 20th century
The dealers of Mayfair and St James’s have banded together with the Philharmonia Orchestra for a special series of concerts this year
The artist refused to paint people, preferring instead to focus on remote landscapes and natural phenomena
The Musée d’Orsay’s survey of the French sculptor is admirably thorough, but his art was more modern than we’re often led to believe
The American artist's studio is split across two rooms – an office and an atelier – in her apartment in Berlin. It is a space ruled by harmony, she says.
The Getty Center in Los Angeles explores how the Middle Ages have influenced everything from Harry Potter to Game of Thrones
They're now little more than popular amusements – but with their discomfiting realism, wax effigies were once considered fit for royalty
The subject of football and all its attendant paraphernalia makes for a surprisingly joyful exhibition
The monetary value of preparatory studies was slight in the Renaissance – but for the ideas they contained, they were worth their weight in gold
As the country prepares for a blowout, Rakewell takes a look at some of the more peculiar ways in which people are marking the occasion
As the Manhattan skyline keeps getting higher, the quality of the skyscrapers crowding the horizon seems to be getting lower and lower
Christians in the Middle Ages believed that there was no bad weather in paradise after the Creation and before the Fall of Man
The artist’s true genius lay in the superhuman pace with which he mastered new styles
Once a renowned dealer in Old Master drawings, Bellinger’s own collection includes all kinds of works on paper and oils – and she’s committed to sharing what she has
The Met’s new survey reveals a more dramatic, more political side to the American painter
A completely overlooked painting, left out of the artist’s catalogue raisonné, makes the case for an unexpectedly messier and much more interesting career
A triumphant survey at Tate Britain – the largest in 30 years – revels in the British artist’s painterly games
Carmen Giménez, the curator of an upcoming exhibition in Basel, talks to Apollo about the modernist’s lifelong debt to the Old Master