In praise of uncertainty
An exhibition of Watteau's drawings at the British Museum is a lesson in appreciating the virtues of ambiguity
An exhibition of Watteau's drawings at the British Museum is a lesson in appreciating the virtues of ambiguity
The humble tuber, rich in its own history, has long been a source of inspiration for painters depicting the peasant classes
By turns picturesque and insalubrious, mews houses have a compellingly chequered past
When the radical patron wasn’t collecting the work of modern British artists, she was urging them to join her in protesting against nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War
An inventive show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art is a thrilling introduction to a modern master of American art
This exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum demonstrates the Flemish baroque artist’s mastery of history painting, still lifes and the male body
The Polish artist prefers to work alone in his Kraków studio, where the silence was recently disturbed by a visiting hornet
The artist’s early paintings were a necessary preparation for his pioneering less-is-more installations
The emergence of Le Creuset cookware a century ago sparked a change in how home kitchens both looked and functioned
To coincide with a show at TM Gallery in London, the artist talked to Apollo about working with materials popular in the Middle Ages and the insights of neuroscience
The first fully fledged edition of the event offers a fast-paced guide to the city’s thriving contemporary art scene
The National Gallery is the latest UK arts institution to announce a citizens’ assembly. But what does this involve – and will any real decisions be taken?
Efforts to return works looted by the Nazis are becoming ever more complicated
The painter’s hugely restrained works are usually described as figurative, but perhaps they mark the precise point where abstraction and figuration meet
From a Louis XVI clock to an Eileen Gray armchair once owned by Yves Saint Laurent, there's something for everyone at FAB Paris
The painter and printmaker maintains a flexible routine at her church-like studio in Harare, which sits between a mountain and a dried-up riverbed
New galleries are springing up, enriching the city’s cultural life and adding to the offerings of the university
This magnificent gilded cup fuses organic form with astonishing craftsmanship, explains Caterina Badan of the Schroder Collection
The designer revolutionised how men and women dressed in the 1980s, but he also made his mark on how films looked, what stars wore – and the making of the modern fashion exhibition
Plus: former Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery director to head Milwaukee and UK Museums Association publishes new draft code of ethics warning against fossil-fuel sponsorship