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The Sainsbury Centre’s new director is taking a more touchy-feely approach to displaying the permanent collection
The Sainsbury Centre’s new director is taking a more touchy-feely approach to displaying the permanent collection
After a period in the doldrums, pieces by the best 18th-century makers are back in demand
The country has been producing wines for centuries, but they are only now getting the global recognition they deserve
Larry Silver’s history of how northern European artists depicted other cultures could have taken a broader view
The reconstruction of cities devastated by the Second World War took radically different forms, depending on the circumstances
Plus: Kenneth Anger (1927–2023), UK government plans to extend ivory ban, and the rest of the week’s top stories
With its focus on architects from Africa and its diasporas, the main exhibition curated by Lesley Lokko is a breath of fresh air
With more than 150 exhibitions staged across the capital, Apollo's editors pick out the ones they don't want to miss
The Hunterian Museum has reconsidered the ethics of showing human remains without sacrificing its weird charm
How the Missouri-born dancer became a sensation in Parisian night clubs and a champion of civil rights in the United States
The actor best known for playing the saintly Melanie Hamilton in ‘Gone with the Wind’ was made of much sterner stuff in real life
For too long, Britain’s lack of regard for the song contest has been rewarded by poor results. It’s time to make more of an effort.
These photographs of domestic scenes and everyday encounters are very familiar and very unsettling
Guests at the opening of ‘Saint Francis of Assisi’ included two very fetching wolf-dogs. Rakewell regrets not making their acquaintance.
A trip through the Condé Nast archives now owned by François Pinault suggests that wit is no longer in vogue
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
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
At the age of 91, the artist has produced a series of remarkable self-portraits, now on show at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
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
The artist starts the day by watering the plants on his balcony from where he can watch people eating at a neighbouring restaurant