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The cosmic art of Liliane Lijn
The artist has pursued her interest in light, motion and myth across drawing, sculpture and performance for six decades, but it’s her openness to new ideas that really defines her work
When does rubbish become art?
A feud in Fife involving a single-minded outsider artist and his unhappy neighbour gives Apollo’s roving correspondent cause to reflect
The ghostly worlds of Goya and Paula Rego
The artists’ eerie prints have much in common, but this pairing at the Holburne Museum is something of a missed opportunity
The slippery Surrealism of Pierre Roy
The French artist was largely ignored by his peers, but his uncanny painting of a snake is a masterpiece
How will Paris cope without the Pompidou Centre for five years?
The museum is set to close in 2025, leaving a hole in the city’s arts scene and adding to growing disquiet about its general direction
The warped aesthetics of Lynn Chadwick
The sculptor’s witty animal-like sculptures are dotted around the grounds of his house in the Cotswolds – and they feel right at home there
How printmaking made a lasting impression
Printing is found throughout art history – and often in the places you least expect it, as Jennifer L. Roberts demonstrates in her highly original new book
The tangled history of the London Tube map
A play about Harry Beck, creator of London Underground map we still use today, shows just how tricky it was to land on the perfect design
Frieze week highlights: Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum gets theatrical at the Barbican
Plus: the light sculptures of Anthony McCall, paintings by Frank Auerbach and his teacher David Bomberg, and Nordic nature scenes
Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Arte Povera masterpiece is a case of rags and endless riches
Curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev explains how the artist’s Venus of the Rags embodies the innovative spirit of the Italian movement
Four things to see: Women poets
To mark 50 years since the death of the poet Anne Sexton, we look at four artworks that demonstrate how women poets have long been a source of inspiration for artists
Where are all the young collectors?
The art world is changing fast, but fostering a new generation of young collectors remains a challenge for the market to overcome
Baroque painting from Naples still provides plenty of thrills
Amid a narrowing market for Old Masters, paintings from 17th-century Naples are still holding their own
The Warburg Institute makes its mysteries more public
The learned institution has always been important to art historians, but a major new refurbishment will give it a higher profile
The dealer who launched Picasso
Berthe Weill was as devoted to young artists as she was to the cause of modern art – and her efforts are now receiving belated recognition
The dangerous beauty of Waterhouse’s nymphs
Sarah Moss returns to a Pre-Raphaelite painting that made a lasting impression on her when she was a teenager
Is Labour’s arts policy a case of warm words, no cold hard cash?
The UK culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, spoke of the importance of the arts at Labour Party Conference, but the sector needs more than good vibes
Italian art is the star of the show in Florence this month
Modern Italian artists rub shoulders with Old Masters including Titian and Bronzino at the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato in Florence (BIAF)
Four things to see: Tourism
On World Tourism Day, it seems a perfect time to revisit the ways in which artists have depicted global travel over the last two centuries
How Van Gogh invented the art of the future
The National Gallery has pulled off a seemingly impossible feat – to allow us to experience the intensity of the artist’s vision as if for the first time
Scotland the brave – an interview with the director of Studio Voltaire
As the cutting-edge arts organisation in south London turns 30, Joe Scotland talks to Apollo about class, community and contemporary art
This year, the Turner Prize gets personal
The four nominees for the prize in its 40th year all fold forms of biography into their art – with mixed success
Top drawers – a brief history of sketching through the ages
Spanning several continents and 13,000 years of graphic art, Susan Owens’s new book outlines the many reasons why artists have always been drawn to drawing
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The many faces of Mary Magdalene
From penitent saint to salacious sinner, the biblical figure has worn a number of different guises in art through the ages