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Charting the life and times of Kenneth Clark
This major, vivid biography of the art historian is meticulously researched – and long overdue
Akomfrah and Turner make for a potent mix in Margate
Turner Contemporary reveals how both artists explore man’s struggle in the face of much bigger forces
More to Mucha than meets the eye – or is there?
An exhibition at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum aims to rethink the familiar work of Czech artist Alphonse Mucha – but could it have gone further?
‘Post-Fire London was a magnificent, beautiful compromise’
London was rebuilt according to its inhabitants’ needs after the Great Fire of 1666 – and is so much the better for it.
The Chinese tea bowl that is a minor miracle
The highlight of the Asian art sales in London is a ceramic masterpiece that was created in China almost a thousand years ago
Julia Stoschek on the realities of collecting video art
The German collector, who recently launched a new space in Berlin, talks to Apollo about the challenges and rewards of acquiring a young art form
Turkey’s art scene was booming. Now, it’s braced for trouble
Turkey’s art scene has been growing for years, but has struggled in the wake of the failed coup attempt of 15 July and subsequent government crackdowns
Sadiq Khan announces trust to help create affordable artists’ studios
Art News Daily : 27 October
The global ambitions of Artes Mundi
Six shortlisted artists battle it out for this year’s prize – one of the nominees, Bedwyr Williams, tells Apollo about his futuristic project
How US election art just keeps getting grosser…
First a sculpture of Hillary Clinton suckling a banker appeared in New York, and now comes Donald Trump as an ugly Renaissance baby
Portrait of the Artist
From Old Master self-portraits to da Vinci’s only surviving likeness, the Royal Collection looks at how the artist’s image has evolved over time
It’s the loneliness of Diane Arbus’s images that make them so discomforting today
An exhibition of Diane Arbus’s early work presents curiosities without cabinets
Art history benefits us all. Why won’t the government fight for it?
We will never defeat the notion that art is the preserve of the privileged, if we stop people from learning about it
Della Robbia’s glazed terracotta changed Tuscan art
This superb exhibition makes us look at terra invetriata – a prodigious combination of earth, glass, and fire – through the eyes of 15th-century Tuscans
Keith Cunningham: the artist who walked away from fame
He was ranked alongside Auerbach and Kossoff: so why did Cunningham stop painting just as his career was taking off?
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The Madonna and Maggie Simpson; Alex Katz at H&M; the girl with the not-so-pearl earring and more
Remembering Anne Crookshank (1927–2016)
Irish art history owes a huge debt to the pioneering contribution of Anne Crookshank
‘I felt I was more connected in a way with Arab art’
Dia Al-Azzawi on why he sees himself less as an Iraqi artist and more as one from the wider Middle East
Mary Sibande’s alter ego tells the story of post-apartheid South Africa
The Johannesburg-based artist talks to Apollo about what it means to be a young black artist working in South Africa today
The illuminated manuscripts that are lighting up the Fens
The Fitzwilliam Museum’s ‘Colour’ exhibition is a triumphant introduction to medieval manuscript painting
The revolutionary collector who changed the course of Russian art
How Sergei Shchukin brought paintings by the most trailblazing members of the French avant-garde to Russia
Make no mistake, art history is a hard subject. What’s soft is the decision to scrap it
Exam board AQA is to scrap art history A-level. It’s a crazy decision to take just as public perception of the subject is changing
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‘It should not be to its past that the ICA is beholden, rather the needs of the present and future’
London’s ICA welcomes its new director this month ahead of its 70th anniversary next year. But what should an ICA look like in the 21st century?