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The fabulous films of Lotte Reiniger
The German director brought fairy tales to gorgeous, animated life with her silhouette films – the earliest of which is as remarkable now as it was in 1926
‘The Rocchetta Mattei is Italy’s Hearst Castle’
Max Norman visits the very peculiar home of an eccentric count who tried to derive electricity from vegetables
Louis Wain, the man who drew cats
The artist’s commercial cat illustrations were hugely popular in his lifetime, but his series of psychedelic kitties have attracted rather more serious attention
Vivienne Westwood’s rococo approach to fashion
The designer’s favourite museum is the Wallace Collection, so it’s no wonder her clothes are full of flourishes from Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard
True to form – Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s touching faith in geometry
In the course of her adventures in abstraction, the artist seemed determined to test herself in every available medium
The art of Christmas parties
The Dickensian illustrator John Leech would have been the ideal artist to capture the spirit of Downing Street festivities – fictional or otherwise
What Stephen Sondheim saw in Georges Seurat
The pointillist painter inspired the composer and lyricist to make his most personal artistic statement
Baroque Brilliance: Drawings and Prints by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
The Kunsthaus Zürich takes a close look at the Genoese virtuoso’s fluent draughtsmanship and innovative prints
The week in art news – Lawrence Weiner (1942–2021)
The pioneering conceptual artist, Lawrence Weiner, has died at the age of 79. Born in the Bronx in 1942, Weiner…
The culture ministers who really are culture vultures
Delighted by the fact that the new German culture minister once managed a rock band, Rakewell recalls other culture ministers with an artistic bent
Getting real with Richard Estes
The painter is generally regarded as a Photorealist but, as he tells Apollo, he prefers to see himself as part of the long tradition of view painting
The week in art news – Austrian museums close in national lockdown
Plus: The new German culture minister is Claudia Roth of the Greens, and a Roman villa complex has been uncovered in Rutland
Altered estates – the English country houses that boomed in the post-war period
Adrian Tinniswood’s new book focuses on the aristocrats and rock stars who secured the futures of the houses they owned – or moved into
Performance anxiety – Paul McCarthy makes his audience incredibly uneasy
The artist’s first performance in a decade was a lot, even for the most ‘open-minded’ onlookers
Cindy Sherman confirms that working from home can be murder
In what now seems like a warning from history, the artist’s only feature film is about a magazine editor who is forced to work at home
The restorers who took a creative approach to Renaissance paintings
A new study assesses 19th-century interventions on paintings by Giotto and other masters, and their impact on art history
In Oslo, the mammoth new Munch museum is a surprisingly joyful affair
The vast waterfront complex is a fitting emblem of the painter’s outsized importance to the city
The artists who wanted to rise above it all
The Transcendental Painting Group in New Mexico was sidelined for its esoteric beliefs, but its members are slowly entering the mainstream
The museum that introduced America to modern art
As the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. celebrates its centenary, the museum is also looking firmly to the future
The Tudor art lurking behind our wallpaper
A carved-wood falcon linked to Anne Boleyn and wall paintings in Hertfordshire and Yorkshire are exciting discoveries for our understanding of Tudor England
Ruff and ready – how Frans Hals made his portraits crackle with life
The Dutch painter already knew the majority of the sitters in his lively portraits of merchants and dignitaries – and it shows
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