Search results for: first look

Is Frieze Art Fair still a hot ticket?

Seven leading curators, art advisors and gallerists look back on the launch of the London event and consider how relevant it is today

4 Oct 2023

Studying abroad: what Mark Rothko learned in Europe

The painter was often forthright in his rejection of the old world – but it’s time to reconsider his European influences

4 Oct 2023

This year’s Turner Prize nominees display a weariness with institutions

The shortlisted artists highlight the fragility of the existing order, with the best of them upending what we expect from a show in a gallery

3 Oct 2023

Soul mates – the story of Yusuf and Zuleikha

Sameer Rahim is impressed by a 16th-century Iranian manuscript illustrating a Sufi poem of seduction and spiritualism

3 Oct 2023

Stitches in time – the power of Palestinian embroidery

The history of Palestinian dress is inseparable from that of the nation itself – and now the subject of an invaluable exhibition

3 Oct 2023

Local hero – Joshua Reynolds returns to Plymouth

To mark the painter’s 300th birthday, the Box in Plymouth is staging a thoughtful show that encourages us to look beyond the obvious

3 Oct 2023

Sophie Calle takes on Picasso in Paris

In the year’s most unusual tribute to the modernist master, the artist is taking over the museum dedicated to him and filling it with her personal belongings

2 Oct 2023

The women who keep reappearing in Rubens’s paintings

The adjective ‘Rubenesque’ was coined in the 19th century, but there’s rather more to the female figures in his paintings than acres of flesh

2 Oct 2023

Leave it to beavers – if you want to build infrastructure in the UK

The sighting of the first beaver kit born in the London area in more than 400 years is a bright spot in the landscape – and a lesson to policymakers everywhere

29 Sep 2023

Four things to see: rococo

Emerging in France in the 1720s, this new style gave artists free rein to be as over the top as they liked

29 Sep 2023

Command performance – what a lost Artemisia tells us about an English queen

The Royal Collection has found a work from the artist’s London years reveals as much about its patron as about the painter

27 Sep 2023

Garth Greenan

Founding director, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York

25 Sep 2023

Barn stormer – Sarah Lucas talks shock tactics and country living

Ahead of a retrospective at Tate Britain, the artist tells Apollo that swapping the city for rural Suffolk has led her to more primordial themes

25 Sep 2023

How often should anyone think about the Roman empire?

While #romanempire has more than a billion view on TikTok, some of us only have eyes for the TV adaptation of ’I Claudius’ – and regrets about the Roman Republic

24 Sep 2023

The history of artists’ signatures is a secret history of art

For painters from Jan van Eyck to Philip Guston, the act of signing a finished work is much more than a simple assertion of authorship

22 Sep 2023

Collectors are falling for the British Neo-Romantics

The market for paintings by the likes of John Craxton and John Minton – and Paul Nash in pastoral mode – is having an idyllic time

22 Sep 2023

Downhill all the way with Isa Genzken

In the Neue Nationalgalerie’s celebration of the sculptor’s 75th birthday, modernity is never what it used to be

19 Sep 2023

Journey through South Africa’s architectural legacy at the Biennale Architettura 2023

The country’s national pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2023 explores how architecture has shaped social structures and communities

18 Sep 2023

Tourist for a day – who’s watching who at London Zoo?

The Regent’s Park attraction offers plenty of opportunities for people-watching when the animals decide to make themselves scarce

15 Sep 2023

How to read books without words

Modern artists have managed to make surprisingly strong statements on blank or partially erased pages

15 Sep 2023

Four things to see: Darwin’s discoveries

On the 188th anniversary of the HMS Beagle landing on the Galápagos Islands, we take a look at four artworks and objects that tell the story of evolution

14 Sep 2023

Jeffrey Deitch

Founder of Jeffrey Deitch galleries, New York and Los Angeles

11 Sep 2023

A seriously good trip – the Dreamachine at Hackney Downs Studios

The psychedelic artwork-meets-wellbeing experience is still in its pilot stages but it deserves to be a mainstream hit

8 Sep 2023

Four things to see: public sculpture

From a giant billiard table to a three storey concrete house, we take a look at some of the most compelling public artworks in recent history

8 Sep 2023