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Drama queen: a peek inside Marie Antoinette’s private theatre
When Marie Antoinette had a theatre built at Versailles, her play-acting took to a stage of its own – and now this splendid interior has been meticulously restored
Video in demand? The nostalgic appeal of VHS
Videos have become relics of a bygone era – but they are attracting a new following, glitches and all
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And
Since the early ’80s, the American artist has blurred the lines between performance, politics and conceptualism. A survey at the Brooklyn Museum
For the women of Venice, the fiddly art of bead-stringing is worth fighting for
Stringing glass beads was once the main work available to Venetian women – but it’s now a protected craft pursued by only a handful of skilled artists
The merchant from Moscow who fell for the Parisian avant-garde
Ivan Morozov built one of the greatest modern art collections in the world – but only a century after his death is his legacy being recognised
If shops can reopen in April, why can’t museums?
Museums in England will have to wait until May to reopen but shops, gyms and libraries are set to open in April. What’s the logic in that?
For Lisa Yuskavage, art isn’t about being right or wrong – it’s the freedom to do what you want
She may paint Penthouse pin-ups, but Lisa Yuskavage’s work is far more compassionate than some critics allow – not that she makes art with morality in mind
Vein glorious: an epic history of marble, reviewed
For millennia, marble was taken to be a gleaming reflection of the heavens – and, in Fabio Barry’s new book, it regains its divine mysteries
The week in art news – head of Indianapolis Museum of Art resigns after controversial job ad
Plus: National Gallery in London launches design competition to rethink Sainsbury Wing, and more stories
The Apollo 40 Under 40 Africa in focus: Dineo Seshee Bopape
Dineo Seshee Bopape’s installation art sets drawings and videos alongside everyday materials – so that objects start to dance in a ‘disco of effects’
With his cryptic clusters of images, Aby Warburg remapped the art of the past
Warburg brought together Greek gods and golfers, antiquities and airships – and in reconstruction, his puzzling arrangements of images are as suggestive as ever
Will this Renaissance boy be the next big thing at auction?
After the Botticelli, another great Florentine portrait looks set to fetch millions – but it hasn’t always been so highly valued
From the Apollo archives – Gavin Stamp on the sorry saga of Edinburgh’s Royal High School
As the future of one of Edinburgh’s greatest buildings hangs in the balance, we republish Gavin Stamp’s call from 2015 to preserve its architectural integrity
The fantastically fishy business of the Raphael Cartoons
Did Raphael know a bream from a sardine? Tessa Murdoch consults her fishmonger
What happens when you hang a painting upside down?
Georg Baselitz says it makes the viewer pay closer attention – but plenty of paintings have simply been upended due to gallerists’ gaffes
From Serena Williams to John McEnroe, the tennis stars with ace collections
Serena Williams has opened up her private art gallery to Architectural Digest – and she’s not the first tennis star to have courted the art world
A famously private Roman collection finally gets a public outing
The Torlonia marbles make for the greatest private collection of Roman antiquities in existence – and they’re finally on view to the public
After the long days of quarantine, Seoul’s museums are a salve to the spirit
Mid-pandemic, the art critic Andrew Russeth moved from New York to Seoul. His first stop out of quarantine? A museum, of course
Dante has stumped many an artist – but these delicate drawings are truly divine
Federico Zuccari’s illustrations of the Divine Comedy have seldom been shown. But the Uffizi has put them online – and Dante’s poem has never looked better
Richard L. Feigen (1930–2021) – a legendary art dealer whose own private collection was the toast of New York
The renowned art dealer has died at the age of 91. In March 2014, he opened up his extraordinary private art collection to Apollo, in an interview republished in full here
Niki de Saint Phalle’s psychedelic garden is a seriously good trip
In her Tarot Garden in Tuscany, the French-American artist let her imagination run riot
Repairing the Houses of Parliament will cost so much that no one dares put a figure on it
What do decades of neglect look like? For the Houses of Parliament, a repair bill upwards of £12 billion
From baptisms to boat burnings, life along the Thames is full of surprises
With an eye for ritual, the photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews celebrates an unfamiliar vision of the river
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Has the UK government abandoned the arts?
Former arts minister Ed Vaizey and leading culture writer Charlotte Higgins on whether the government should be doing more for the hard-hit arts sector