Abstract Expressionism Royal Academy of Arts, London 24 September–2 January 2017 The first major survey of the movement in Europe since 1959, with 163 works spanning four decades and including sculpture, photography, and prints as well as the legendary paintings. Many significant and difficult loans have been secured, including a room of paintings by Clyfford Still, […]
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts Christopher de Hamel Allen Lane De Hamel’s engaging discussion of 12 medieval illuminated manuscripts includes the Gospels of St Augustine in Cambridge and the Codex Amiatinus in Florence. In this personal, but scholarly account, De Hamel visits each manuscript in its current home, describes each encounter, and manages to span nine […]
Art News Daily : 2 November
This major, vivid biography of the art historian is meticulously researched – and long overdue
Turner Contemporary reveals how both artists explore man's struggle in the face of much bigger forces
An exhibition at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum aims to rethink the familiar work of Czech artist Alphonse Mucha - but could it have gone further?
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?
London was rebuilt according to its inhabitants' needs after the Great Fire of 1666 – and is so much the better for it.
The highlight of the Asian art sales in London is a ceramic masterpiece that was created in China almost a thousand years ago
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 has been growing for years, but has struggled in the wake of the failed coup attempt of 15 July and subsequent government crackdowns
Art News Daily : 27 October
Six shortlisted artists battle it out for this year's prize – one of the nominees, Bedwyr Williams, tells Apollo about his futuristic project
First a sculpture of Hillary Clinton suckling a banker appeared in New York, and now comes Donald Trump as an ugly Renaissance baby
An exhibition of Diane Arbus's early work presents curiosities without cabinets
We will never defeat the notion that art is the preserve of the privileged, if we stop people from learning about it
This superb exhibition makes us look at terra invetriata – a prodigious combination of earth, glass, and fire – through the eyes of 15th-century Tuscans
He was ranked alongside Auerbach and Kossoff: so why did Cunningham stop painting just as his career was taking off?
The Madonna and Maggie Simpson; Alex Katz at H&M; the girl with the not-so-pearl earring and more
Irish art history owes a huge debt to the pioneering contribution of Anne Crookshank