How Joe Brainard and friends sent up consumer society
The C Comics drawn by the artist with words by New York School writers are a call to unconformity
The C Comics drawn by the artist with words by New York School writers are a call to unconformity
To mark 72 years since rationing ended in the UK, we look at four works of art and design that capture our relationship with food
A biblical scene by Lavinia Fontana and a huge collection of Palestinian textiles are among the most exciting objects to enter public collections recently
The New York Historical has been charting America’s history for more than two centuries. What does a brand new wing dedicated to democracy add to the story?
For a brief period before the First World War, oblique angles and angular planes were all the rage in Prague
While Capability Brown achieved a natural look with great artifice in England, French landscape gardens were overtly experimental fantasies
From the World Cup to the semiquincentennial of the US Declaration of Independence, flag-waving is in the air this summer
A wine estate chapel redecorated by Sol LeWitt and David Tremlet is a unique blend of viticulture and art
A revelatory exhibition at the Prado explores a neglected period of cultural and artistic exchange during the 14th century
The Charles Ede director explains why the antiquities market is different from the rest of the art market, how she brings in young collectors and why broken fragments are the next big thing
NASA has published its latest plans for a moon base, but has it forgotten to make low-gravity life seem appealing?
The Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been in limbo for 30 years. With no state support, it raises funds as it can, but is determined to bring people together
The New Museum has reopened with an extravaganza of a show that seems more excited than afraid about the blurring of lines between man and machine
‘Tablescaping’ is nothing new – just look at these dazzling centrepieces made by 18th- and 19th-century goldsmiths
Asta Nørregaard was part of a coterie of women artists at the forefront of progressive artistic and social movements in late 19th-century Norway but, above all, she was determined to paint as she pleased
The Berlin-based dealer Paul Cassirer introduced French Impressionism to German collectors and museums before doing the same for the German artists of his day
Highlights include a collection of 20th-century Haitian art for Princeton and a rare letter by Rubens for the Rubenshuis
The sculptor knows something about scale, which, as he tells Apollo, is ‘the most mysterious, strange, poetic thing’
When David Hockney wrote a book arguing that many Old Master painters used optical devices, the idea was hotly debated by art historians. In 2010, he talked to Martin Gayford about his unorthodox and firmly held belief
Masterpieces by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera have a rare outing in Mexico City this summer, but their impending move to Spain has raised hackles