The palace of Caserta has lost nothing of its power to astonish
Designed in the 18th century by Luigi Vanvitelli for Charles VII of Naples, Italy’s answer to Versailles is as dizzying today as it was 250 years ago
Designed in the 18th century by Luigi Vanvitelli for Charles VII of Naples, Italy’s answer to Versailles is as dizzying today as it was 250 years ago
The sinister corporation in the dystopian office drama really cares about art, but the paintings on the walls only highlight the workers’ sense of alienation rather than relieving it
The San Francisco-based photographer has moved into a new space, and she’s getting used to a more communal environment – but order is still all-important
As the Hungarian-American artist celebrates his 80th birthday, is his brand of conceptual art still as radical as it once was?
A meditative painting by Qi Baishi demonstrates his modern approach to an ancient art form, explains Jeremy Zhang of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
The Flemish castle bought by Rubens in 1635 was intended as a country retreat, and it inspired the artist’s greatest landscapes
Working in the new medium of pastels, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour portrayed the elites of his day in a style to suit the hedonism of the age
These artistic experiments by early embracers of new technologies already look charmingly retro
Earthenware from the Central Asian empire is much sought-after, though quality pieces can be found at relatively low prices too
Picasso was the possessor of a hearty appetite and depictions of alcohol and excess are also central to his work
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Recent rehangs at the Met and the Brooklyn Museum suggest that part of the answer lies in respecting the viewer’s own capacity for interpretation
Whether Orphism can be called a coherent movement is one thing, but its practitioners produced some excellent art
Thirty years after the novelist's death, Apollo revisits the Ripley creator's close ties to the visual arts
The home the writer designed for herself in the hills of Massachusetts is a window on to the shifting tastes of Gilded Age America
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The British Library’s exhibition of women in the Middle Ages who were creative and intellectual pioneers is a red-carpet affair
In his final works, some of which have never been shown before, the endlessly restless artist adopted an abstract style that challenges us to look for hidden meanings
The Aga Khan IV, who has died at the age of 88, formed an important collection of Islamic art and dedicated some of his fabulous wealth to cultural heritage projects around the world
Helen Gordon charts the fall and cultural rise of the Ensisheim meteorite of 1492