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All change at the Venice Architecture Biennale?
With its focus on architects from Africa and its diasporas, the main exhibition curated by Lesley Lokko is a breath of fresh air
From Bruce Lee to Blobbyland – a guide to London Gallery Weekend
With more than 150 exhibitions staged across the capital, Apollo’s editors pick out the ones they don’t want to miss
London’s most gruesome museum is back – and weirder than ever
The Hunterian Museum has reconsidered the ethics of showing human remains without sacrificing its weird charm
Josephine Baker. Freedom – Equality – Humanity
How the Missouri-born dancer became a sensation in Parisian night clubs and a champion of civil rights in the United States
The Olivia de Havilland sale deserves to be a soaring success
The actor best known for playing the saintly Melanie Hamilton in ‘Gone with the Wind’ was made of much sterner stuff in real life
The unheimlich manoeuvres of Joanna Pietrowska
These photographs of domestic scenes and everyday encounters are very familiar and very unsettling
The National Gallery throws its director to the wolves
Guests at the opening of ‘Saint Francis of Assisi’ included two very fetching wolf-dogs. Rakewell regrets not making their acquaintance.
When did fashion photography stop being fun?
A trip through the Condé Nast archives now owned by François Pinault suggests that wit is no longer in vogue
A surprise pest of honour at the Met Gala
The sensational appearance of a cockroach at this year’s Met Gala leads Rakewell to reflect on other star turns performed by the creepy-crawly
Acquisitions of the Month: April 2023
The joint acquisition of Joshua Reynolds’s ‘Portrait of Mai (Omai)’ by the National Portrait Gallery and the J. Paul Getty Museum has been confirmed
Frank Auerbach faces himself
At the age of 91, the artist has produced a series of remarkable self-portraits, now on show at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
The battle to win New York’s auction season
There’s strong competition in the Big Apple this month, with a martial portrait by Rubens and a late landscape by Henri Rousseau among the contenders
In the studio with… Keith Coventry
The artist starts the day by watering the plants on his balcony from where he can watch people eating at a neighbouring restaurant
Sterling work – European silver at the Louvre, reviewed
A catalogue of the museum’s unrivalled collection of silver and gold is a thing of beauty
Reality check – ‘Tartan’ at the V&A Dundee, reviewed
A show about the many variations and chequered history of the fabric even lets visitors see what’s worn under the kilt
The creative curating of Walter Hopps
The Menil Collection in Houston looks at the groundbreaking work of a curator who brought a new generation of American artists into museums
What Handel liked to hang on his walls
Three hundred years after the composer moved into his London townhouse, what does the art collection he amassed there tell us about his music?
Self awareness – Alice Neel at the Barbican, reviewed
The painter who never stopped seeing her subjects as individuals described her works as ‘pictures of people’ rather than ‘portraits’
The saving of St Mary-le-Strand
Pedestrianisation means that one of London’s finest churches is now the centre of attention again
The magpie eye of Giovanni Bellini
The Musée Jacquemart-André shows that the painter was always open to new influences
The unnerving appeal of wax figures
From votive offerings to anatomical models, wax is the perfect material for blurring the boundaries between art and life
The modern potter who was devoted to Delft
When Simon Pettet moved into Dennis Severs’ House in Spitalfields he began to channel the 18th century in the 1980s
‘Sydney Modern must be given time to evolve’
The Art Gallery of New South Wales’s extension is too populist and commercially minded for some – but it is full of possibilities
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