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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
How to read books without words
Modern artists have managed to make surprisingly strong statements on blank or partially erased pages
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
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
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
Ingres and the endless quest for perfection
The painter was always reluctant to regard his paintings as finished and revisted some of his greatest compositions several times
Who should fix the crisis at the British Museum?
The theft of 2,000 items is a scandal that points to wider failures of leadership and oversight. So can the museum right what has gone wrong by itself?
‘There’s no denying the power of this museum to move’
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is as powerful as you would expect, but the Hiroshima Museum of Art may catch you unawares
Beatriz Milhazes brings a touch of Brazil to Margate
The artist’s colourful paintings have transformed Turner Contemporary inside and out
Can painting ever bear the weight of grief?
Gwen John and the contemporary artist Matthew Krishanu found comfort in a shared composition
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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