The major art anniversaries to look out for in 2022
The year ahead brings significant anniversaries and, consequently, blockbuster exhibitions for Lucian Freud, Piet Mondrian and Rosa Bonheur
The year ahead brings significant anniversaries and, consequently, blockbuster exhibitions for Lucian Freud, Piet Mondrian and Rosa Bonheur
Christianity, Judaism and Islam shared a visual language on the Iberian peninsula – but it was a fragile balance at the best of times
Like many of the most notorious trials of modern times, Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial has been summed up by a skilful courtroom sketch artist
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
Max Norman visits the very peculiar home of an eccentric count who tried to derive electricity from vegetables
The artist’s commercial cat illustrations were hugely popular in his lifetime, but his series of psychedelic kitties have attracted rather more serious attention
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
In the course of her adventures in abstraction, the artist seemed determined to test herself in every available medium
The Dickensian illustrator John Leech would have been the ideal artist to capture the spirit of Downing Street festivities – fictional or otherwise
The pointillist painter inspired the composer and lyricist to make his most personal artistic statement
The Kunsthaus Zürich takes a close look at the Genoese virtuoso’s fluent draughtsmanship and innovative prints
The pioneering conceptual artist, Lawrence Weiner, has died at the age of 79. Born in the Bronx in 1942, Weiner received no formal training as an artist. He dropped out of high school and spent much of his teenage years hitchhiking around America. After arriving in California in the late 1960s, he came into contact […]
Delighted by the fact that the new German culture minister once managed a rock band, Rakewell recalls other culture ministers with an artistic bent
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
Plus: The new German culture minister is Claudia Roth of the Greens, and a Roman villa complex has been uncovered in Rutland
Adrian Tinniswood’s new book focuses on the aristocrats and rock stars who secured the futures of the houses they owned – or moved into
The artist’s first performance in a decade was a lot, even for the most ‘open-minded’ onlookers
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
A new study assesses 19th-century interventions on paintings by Giotto and other masters, and their impact on art history
In Hong Kong’s increasingly repressive political climate, can the M+ Museum sustain the cultural optimism it once promised?