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The Royal Collection puts its South Asian art on show
Art from the Indian subcontinent, from Mughal manuscripts to a peacock-shaped inkstand, makes a splash
Now it’s Cate Blanchett’s turn to spoof Marina Abramović
Cate Blanchett is to play an Abramović-like artist in the mockumentary series Documentary Now!
The work of Rebecca Belmore demands to be heard
The experiences of Indigenous peoples past and present are brought into view in this provocative yet sensitive exhibition
The Apollo podcast: Mark Gatiss on John Minton
Mark Gatiss tells Thomas Marks about his new film on John Minton – and his lifelong fascination with the artist
The eclectic country houses of George Devey
The Victorian architect fused styles past and present, inventing fictive histories for his buildings
‘I paint for my sanity’ – an interview with Mary Corse
The painter talks about her formal experiments and the importance of being self-sufficient
The strangely familiar world of Pia Camil
The artist’s immersive exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary makes us question our public personas
The mastermind behind the modern art market
A collection of short memoirs about the late Sotheby’s chairman Peter Wilson portrays an enigmatic and highly influential figure
Eight artists’ gardens that are artworks in their own right
Artists have often been inspired by gardens – and some have created outdoor masterpieces of their own
The many faces of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
The distorted Character Heads of the 18th-century sculptor have long perplexed critics
Ecstasy and ethnography in Geneva
An exhibition at the MEG urges us to see African religious objects afresh by placing them in contemporary sacred contexts
Apollo recommends arty novels for the summer
Nobody wants to take a coffee table book to the beach, so here’s some fiction about art – picked by Apollo’s editors
Rethinking the utopian vision of the Bauhaus
The Bauhaus’s radical designs were meant for the masses, but they were far from affordable
Sacha Baron Cohen sends up the art world (again)
In his new show, What is America?, the comedian foists some pungent art on a gallerist in California. It’s not the first time he’s fooled the art world
Artistic strategies on China’s new Silk Road
The second Yinchuan Biennale is part of an official drive to open up the city to international visitors
How Monet’s water lilies took root across the pond
The French painter’s late style influenced a generation of American Abstract Expressionists
Trevor Paglen reveals the hidden networks that rule our lives
The artist’s subjects include drones, undersea cables and a sculptural satellite in space
How the church-building boom of the 19th century began
Two hundred years ago, the English parliament passed the Act for Building New Churches, allocating £1m for the task
Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix
A rare look at works on paper by the French Romantic, from watercolours to preparatory sketches
Mark Wallinger: The Human Figure in Space
The Turner Prize-winning artist responds to Eadweard Muybridge’s early photographs of the body in motion
‘The space has an otherworldly quality’ – Stuart McKnight on Westminster Abbey
A conversation with Stuart McKnight of MUMA, the architects responsible for the new galleries in the triforium at Westminster Abbey
Tomma Abts’ intriguing paintings contain infinite worlds
In the largest survey of her work so far, the artist explores the tensions between control and chaos
The monstrous bodies of Lee Bul
A survey of the Korean artist’s work reveals a fascination with the fragile boundary between beauty and horror
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