A former slaughterhouse is home to the city’s newest museum and it’s just the first step in creating a new cultural district
For Benjamin Markovits, a Cornish scene by Michael Canney hits the sweet spot between figuration and abstraction
In his enchanting documentaries about the natural world, the French film-maker approached his subjects with intellectual rigour and an eye for wonder
The name Eames is synonymous with the famous lounge chair they designed, but they were also interested in the big questions about how to build and how to live
In the first major survey of the French artist’s work in decades, the targets of his biting criticism look awfully familiar
Amid a swathe of interesting lots in Paris last week, it was two recently rediscovered Monet landscapes that made the biggest impression
Plus: the European Commission has told the Venice Biennale to stop Russia taking part or risk losing €2m in funding
The city has been rebuilding the Residenzschloss, home of its one-time ruler Augustus the Strong, since the Second World War – and the results are worth the wait
Andrew Lloyd Webber is working on a musical charting the theft of the Mona Lisa – which puts Rakewell in mind of other times art has treaded the boards
Scott, who has led the museum since 2017, talks to Apollo about her favourite works from the collection and how to get new audiences into Old Masters
This wide-ranging survey of the artist’s work also explores the harmonies between her paintings and those of Edvard Munch
Gainsborough’s House presents work by three pioneers of British landscape painting – including at least one masterpiece not seen in public since the 18th century
See how this one-woman institution brought the avant-garde across the Channel and transformed British art in the process
Forty paintings from a a series charting the adventures of the Hindu deity Rama are reunited at the Cleveland Museum of Art
New works inspired by Kensington Gardens play havoc with traditional conceptions of landscape painting – and the results are thrilling
The V&A hopes its new branch in east London is an answer to how to get younger, more diverse audiences through the door. But can such efforts survive in a changing political landscape?
Plus: Greece has passed a law to combat crimes against cultural property, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has sold the artist’s former home to a Florida resort
The famous spiced anchovy paste, now tragically discontinued, was a condiment that provided a feast for the eyes and the tastebuds
Very few works on paper from the Low Countries before 1600 have survived – which makes this exhibition at the British Museum a top-drawer show
MoMA presents hundreds of works by the modernist who laid the ground for conceptual art and played a lot of chess along the way
The National Gallery of Ireland sets the artist’s visionary paintings and prints alongside work by his peers
This exhibition at the Louvre suggests the two sculptors had a shared mission despite living centuries apart
A world-class collection gets a revealing but all-too-rare moment in the spotlight
The artist was admired by the likes of Frederick Douglass and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in her lifetime, but after a period of fame she sank into obscurity – and this landmark survey is long overdue
