Sotheby’s earnings plummet by 88 per cent in first half of year
Plus: open letter criticises Chinese interference in French museums, and Las Vegas is to get an art museum
Plus: open letter criticises Chinese interference in French museums, and Las Vegas is to get an art museum
The philanthropist’s pursuits range from collecting Asian art to restoring ruined buildings
A series of artist-designed bottles produced by an innovative Tuscan winery wouldn’t be out of place in a gallery
Plus: Denver Art Museum returns 11 more artefacts to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam and some Damien Hirst sculptures may be more recently made than they seem
The Louvre has restored the Van Eyck masterpiece for the first time since it entered the museum in 1800
The Getty Center makes a case for the critic and photographer’s important role in the development of art history in his home country
At Casa Balla, Futurism was definitely a family affair for Giacomo Balla and his daughters Lucia and Elice
The performance artist has struck an uneasy balance between fact and fiction in her work for more than five decades
Finland’s most important art museum has been completely rehung just as questions of culture and national identity are on everyone’s mind
The painter’s works invite us to marvel at the mysteries of perception – and we will never see so many of them in the same place again
The French-Algerian artist explains her fascination with the activism of the 1960s and why, for her, the personal really is political
A new library at Magdalene College and a dining hall at Homerton make the most of modern craftsmanship
Exhibitions to look forward to include some major retrospectives and shows that pick up where the Venice Biennale left off
Joshua Reynolds, Sarah Bernhardt and Pablo Picasso are all being celebrated in anniversary events this year
The sale of masterpieces at Christie’s shattered records – but has it really changed the art market?
An exhibition examining ‘doubles’ in modern art at National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. ends up a little out of focus
MoMA presents the first US survey of the photographer’s intimate portraits of contemporary life
The Gilded Age institution renowned for its Eurocentric holdings is re-evaluating its history and winning over a wider audience
The artist tells Apollo how his new film for the Barnes Foundation weaves together restitution debates with the history of the Harlem Renaissance
With a new book dedicated to William Kent's Houghton Hall ceilings, Apollo takes a closer look at the depiction of Venus in the Green Velvet Drawing Room