The fantastically fishy business of the Raphael Cartoons
Did Raphael know a bream from a sardine? Tessa Murdoch consults her fishmonger
Did Raphael know a bream from a sardine? Tessa Murdoch consults her fishmonger
Georg Baselitz says it makes the viewer pay closer attention – but plenty of paintings have simply been upended due to gallerists’ gaffes
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
The Torlonia marbles make for the greatest private collection of Roman antiquities in existence – and they're finally on view to the public
Mid-pandemic, the art critic Andrew Russeth moved from New York to Seoul. His first stop out of quarantine? A museum, of course
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
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
In her Tarot Garden in Tuscany, the French-American artist let her imagination run riot
What do decades of neglect look like? For the Houses of Parliament, a repair bill upwards of £12 billion
With an eye for ritual, the photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews celebrates an unfamiliar vision of the river
Without Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion models, science-fiction films wouldn't look like they do today
Kara Walker’s fountain at Tate Modern plays a starring role in FKA Twigs’ new video – and it’s not the first artwork to have a brush with the charts
With lockdown boredom well and truly setting in, it’s time to stick the kids – with their crayons – in front of a museum website
Childe Hassam’s rain-soaked flags have hung in the White House before, but next to Joe Biden's desk they feel more fitting than ever
In his skewering of authority figures, Ralph Steadman bears comparison with some of the great artists of modern times
From that scandalous scallop to her Mary Wollstonecraft monument, Maggi Hambling is no stranger to controversy
The UK government’s proposal to protect every monument in sight is a kneejerk response that will have ridiculous consequences
Weird and wonderful citrus fruit were once highly prized possessions – and one German fanatic made prints of the hundreds of varieties he laid his hands on
The inauguration of Joe Biden as president marks a new chapter, but it won’t wipe out the ugly scenes of the storming of Congress
The muddy foreshore of the Thames has been an unlikely treasure trove for amateur archaeologists