NFTs after the crypto crash – what happens now?
Are NFTs a revolutionary approach to new media art or simply a fleeting trend? Jane Morris explores the role of non-fungible tokens today
Are NFTs a revolutionary approach to new media art or simply a fleeting trend? Jane Morris explores the role of non-fungible tokens today
When it comes to gold-ground paintings from Italy, condition is everything and the older the work, the better
Contemporary artists are looking to geological forms less for aesthetic cues than for perspective on time, place and human agency
Other European dynasties of the period had equally thriving court cultures, but none has had such a hold on the popular imagination
Few 18th-century painters were more enthusiastic about embracing English literature than the Swiss-born artist
A display in Vienna charts the history of one of the world’s first public museums
Phrygian cap or pussy hat? The mascot for the 2024 Paris Olympics seems to be making a bid for freedom
The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss Getty Research Institute By looking at paintings, prints, medals, sculptures and ship designs – some of which have never been published before – this ground-breaking study leaves Versailles for the docks of Marseille, where the French […]
The curator Andrew Bonacina explains why Gwen John’s obsessive approach to portraiture became the starting point for a group show at Michael Werner gallery in London
The British painter’s characterful figures go on show at S.M.A.K. in Ghent
The breaking of a plaque to commemorate Howard Carter in Luxor isn’t a wholly inappropriate way to mark the centenary of his great discovery
Newly restored, this museum is both an architectural treasure and home to works by Masaccio’s unfairly overlooked younger brother
Denis Wirth-Miller was unfairly dismissed as an imitator of his friend Francis Bacon, but it’s now clear that his detractors were wholly in the wrong
The Brazilian artist draws influence from the views of Rio de Janeiro’s suburbs she can see through her studio windows
The Oslo-based artist has never shied away from explicit – or controversial – material, but it’s not just about creating a shocking scene
The sale of masterpieces at Christie’s shattered records – but has it really changed the art market?
The Miami-based artist isn't especially keen on visitors, but he has a television and an 18th-century cooling casket to keep him company
The St Ives painter best known for his abstract works also created his own kind of figurative art
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The pioneer of Ethiopian modernism tells Apollo about his years in the USSR and his depictions of brightly-dressed women at market