The week in art news – Arts Council England announces its national funding portfolio
Plus: Subhash Kapoor sentenced to ten years in prison, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Plus: Subhash Kapoor sentenced to ten years in prison, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The pioneer of Ethiopian modernism tells Apollo about his years in the USSR and his depictions of brightly-dressed women at market
This month’s highlights include the 18th-century Chinese jardinière that Horace Walpole famously used as a fish bowl
Lace-making is an exacting craft – and who gets to wear the results is an equally delicate matter
Curator Dany Chan takes a close look at an exquisite jade cup in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
They are symbols of great change, but Rakewell finds pleasing continuities in the new Charles III coins
Plus: Pierre Soulages (1919–2022), and a shake-up at the head of Art Basel
Helen Saunders was briefly at the forefront of British modernism – before she was cancelled by Wyndham Lewis
Thomas Blaikie pens a paean to the new emperor’s clothes
The Indian artist enjoys company while she’s working and even occasionally posts an open invitation on Instagram, encouraging visitors to drop by
The Japanese ceramicist infused his approach to pottery with British traditions from his travels in the 1920s, before bringing this new style back to his native country
The photographer’s seething retrospective at MoMA captures what it was like to be young and carefree after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Shokuhin sampuru (food models) may serve the promotional function of luring diners into restaurants but the creation of each replica is a delicate craft
Long undervalued in comparison to his peers, the Renaissance painter now has the critical esteem he deserves in the form of a fine catalogue
On the centenary of Charles M. Schulz’s birth, the cartoonist’s greatest creation still sums up the hopes and fears of the nuclear age
In the early 20th century, Albert Kahn dispatched photographers to more than 50 countries – and the magical results can be found in the Paris museum that bears his name
When the pharaoh’s tomb was discovered 100 years ago, the fate of its contents became a political minefield. Unpublished British papers reveal for the first time what was really at stake
This bumper edition of the annual event continues to demonstrate the capital’s strength in this field
A journey through four decades of the South African artist’s works reveals the steady evolution of his talent
Increased wealth, social media and a global art market have affected how people buy art, says the chief operating officer of Gagosian Art Advisory