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Scents and sensibility: why smell counts in art
The visual arts have often toyed with odours and smells, however challenging they are to represent
A home for empathy and artists, in a former socialist-realist district of Cracow
Utopia Home – International Empathy Centre will provide a place of interaction, exchange and community for the artists and residents of Cracow in Poland
Australian art that doesn’t beat about the bush – The National 2021, reviewed
A survey of new Australian art presents a planet in crisis – but it’s more uplifting than it sounds
For Etel Adnan, a show in Turkey is a symbolic homecoming
A retrospective at the Pera Museum in Istanbul demonstrates the vast geographic sweep of the Lebanese-American artist’s work and biography – including her Ottoman roots
Rankin’s Great British Photography Challenge is too polite for its own good
The TV competition series is billed as a ‘masterclass’ – and none of the contestants will be booted off until the finale. Where’s the fun in that?
All art is for children – and great art can make children of us all
Modern masters from Joseph Cornell to Paul Klee have produced works expressly for children, writes Ben Street – but perhaps all great art is a type of child’s play?
John Craxton was a great artist – but his real talent was for living life to the full
A new biography of the British painter has a fine sense of his precocious talent – and real feeling for his rakish charm
Offices have become museum pieces – in the case of Stephen Hawking’s, literally
The contents of the late scientist’s office are heading to the Science Museum in London – and it’s not the first workspace to be preserved in this way
On the Grand Canal, this crumbling Venetian palazzo has been given a new lease of life
The Palazzo Vendramin Grimani has opened with a display that reunites some of the paintings it was once home to – plus a helping of contemporary art
Raising the curtain on early Klimt
An early commission by the painter for a public theatre in Rijeka is the subject of a major display in the city this summer
The heist at Arundel Castle means a heartbreaking loss of heritage
Stolen objects include the rosary that Mary, Queen of Scots took to her execution
Salvage value: the rescue missions of Michael Rakowitz
The Iraqi-American artist talks to Apollo about making an anti-war memorial in Margate – and about ‘problem-solving and trouble-making’ with his art
The week in art news – in Oxford, Rhodes won’t fall after all
Oriel College, Oxford has decided not to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes – the imperialist businessman, politician and philanthropist…
After playing Turner and Lowry, now Timothy Spall has taken up painting for real
Having picked up the paintbrush for film roles, the actor found that he couldn’t stop painting – and he now has a solo show of his own
Would medieval Christians have blushed at a giant chalk erection?
Even if the Cerne Abbas giant is Anglo-Saxon, that doesn’t make it pagan – after all, Christians were no prudes in those days
Images of strength – Jennifer Higgie’s ‘The Mirror and the Palette’, reviewed
This wide-ranging book explores how women artists used self-portraiture to establish themselves in a man’s world
In her life and art, Nina Hamnett had some serious fun
The first survey show dedicated to the ‘Queen of Bohemia’ presents a flamboyant figure who was single-minded about her art
An audience with the Qianlong Emperor, via the small screen
The meticulous attention to Chinese decorative arts is as great a draw as the court intrigue in ‘Story of Yanxi Palace’
Museums are finally reopening – and these are the shows we don’t want to miss
Apollo’s editors pick out the museum shows that they’re most looking forward to visiting in coming weeks
Extinction rebellion – the Jurassic parks of London and beyond
A band of dynamic dinosaurs is arriving in the UK this summer – but will they be a match for the Victorian sculptures at Crystal Palace Park?
An elephant in the room, at Waddesdon Manor
Toys aren’t just for children, at least if a 250-year-old musical elephant at the grandest house in Buckinghamshire is anything to go by
The tender fictions of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
In her portraits of imaginary people, the artist conjures a world that feels joyfully real
Weft dreams – the utopian tapestries of Archie Brennan
Archie Brennan was a committed craftsman with a fondness for optical illusions and a strong idealistic streak
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