The dazzling paintings of Matthew Wong
The self-taught artist died tragically young at the age of 35, but there’s no denying the talent he demonstrated in his all-too-brief career
The self-taught artist died tragically young at the age of 35, but there’s no denying the talent he demonstrated in his all-too-brief career
To mark 180 years since Charles Goodyear got his patent for vulcanised rubber approved, we look at four artworks that capture the appeal of automotives through the years
Drawings and watercolours of India belonging to a Scottish railway engineer take on new meaning if we look for what they don’t show
The leading exponent of German Romanticism was keenly concerned with the destructive effects of humans on a rapidly industrialising world
Keeping the national museums free to enter comes with significant hidden costs, but admission fees are not the answer
An uncanny family portrait by Lavinia Fontana and Sorolla’s striking copy of a Velázquez are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
With cancelled sales and market uncertainty, Christie’s and Sotheby’s have been taking hammer blows in recent months – but it’s not just a London problem
The artist has all she needs in her capacious studio in Sydney, where her artist partner, some audiobooks and a Mexican papier-mâché skeleton keep her company
A 1930s structure has been repurposed to house the collection of Nicolai Tangen. It’s certainly impressive, but how coherent is the work on show?
Collectors Lorena Pérez-Jácome and Javier Lumbreras are bringing new life to a 16th-century Jesuit school
Comparing the spreads on offer in scenes by Manet and Monet suggests that eating outdoors offered the artists a very particular kind of freedom
William Burrell came to own 23 paintings by the artist, but an exhibition in Glasgow shows that his contemporaries were just as appreciative
An ambitious new event features several photographers seeing colonial histories through a contemporary lens
The Smithsonian celebrates a group of 20th-century women whose innovative work helped bring textile art out of the shadows
Ahead of his Tate Britain commission, the artist tells Apollo about being inspired by Tupac and Cy Twombly and wanting to involve communities in everything he makes
The influential Sami artist talks to Apollo about how she has always woven politics and protest into her work
The painting perfectly captures the essence of royalty today – it’s undeniably attention-grabbing, but hollow to the core
Blake, Constable and Ivon Hitchens all feature in Alexandra Harris’s account of a place she knows well, but it’s the more obscure figures who really shine
The New York native keeps up with current affairs, listens to Radio Garden and works every day – that is, when she’s not entertaining Leonardo DiCaprio
The ancient Scottish relic makes for a captivating moment of theatre, but the rest of the displays are just as artfully done