Plus: Billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt surrenders 180 looted artefacts
The Dickensian illustrator John Leech would have been the ideal artist to capture the spirit of Downing Street festivities – fictional or otherwise
The artist’s pampered pooch was often seen as an alter ego for the ‘pugnacious’ man himself
Clara Blume, a cultural diplomat for Austria, and the US artist and programmer Lauren Lee McCarthy talk to Gabrielle Schwarz about the future of big tech
The pointillist painter inspired the composer and lyricist to make his most personal artistic statement
Art historians may be sceptical about artificial intelligence, but machine learning might enlarge our capacity for observation – and even revive connoisseurship
Renowned for his quirky drawings, the artist extols the virtues of his paint-spattered sink and the benefits of a good nap
Ian Cheng and Jakob Kudsk Steensen talk to Gabrielle Schwarz about using video-game engines to create their art
Philip Barantini shot his 90-minute movie about the drama of a busy restaurant service in one take – and it's nail-biting stuff
The galleries of Mayfair and St James’s are full of surprises and delights that should brighten up December
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
The British Museum presents the mysteries and marvels of the Andean civilisations predating modern Peru
The artist’s studio in Mumbai is animated by the rumbling of the railway – and home to a collection of cough-syrup bottles
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?
In the decade before his death, John Constable developed a freer hand to follow new visions – to astonishing effect
The vast waterfront complex is a fitting emblem of the painter’s outsized importance to the city
’Red Notice’ may not be most sophisticated heist film, but it’s hard to resist The Rock on the trail of Wonder Woman
