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Berlinde De Bruyckere. Khorós
Fleshy forms, unconventional materials and religious imagery come together in the work of the Belgian artist
François Boucher’s ‘Resting Girl’
Boucher’s recently restored rococo masterpiece is in the spotlight at the Alte Pinakothek
‘Degenerate’ Art: Modern Art on Trial Under the Nazis
The Musée Picasso celebrates Kandinsky, Kirchner and the many other artists condemned by the Nazis
Four things to see: Love
This Valentine’s Day, we examine four artworks, spanning more than 2,000 years, inspired by love in its many different forms
The avant-garde painters who went round in circles
Whether Orphism can be called a coherent movement is one thing, but its practitioners produced some excellent art
Queen of suspense – the art of Patricia Highsmith
Thirty years after the novelist’s death, Apollo revisits the Ripley creator’s close ties to the visual arts
When gladiators roamed the British Isles
A touring exhibition of gladiatorial objects found in Britain makes a stab at getting to the heart of our fascination with the amphitheatre, but does it succeed?
Inside Edith Wharton’s house, a mirthful ode to classical taste
The home the writer designed for herself in the hills of Massachusetts is a window on to the shifting tastes of Gilded Age America
In defence of the outsider artist
The art world tends to favour self-promoting extroverts, but it is often the eccentrics and wallflowers who make the most interesting work
French arts sector denounces French budget cuts
Plus Brooklyn Museum to lay off tenth of its workforce | Crypto entrepreneur sues David Geffen for return of Giacometti sculpture | Christie’s withdraws El Greco from sale after Romanian objections
The real saints and scribes of medieval Europe, celebrity edition
The British Library’s exhibition of women in the Middle Ages who were creative and intellectual pioneers is a red-carpet affair
Postcards from the Future
See the opening exhibition at PoMo, Norway’s newest private museum and northerly outpost of modern and contemporary art
Victoria Beckham spices up her showroom, with help from Sotheby’s
Posh is showing a raft of contemporary artworks at her London showroom, but will the Richters distract from the beautiful clothes on sale?
Retrospect: 50 Years of the Norton Simon Museum
The Pasadena museum marks its 50th birthday by showing off its most important acquisitions
Soane and Modernism: Make It New
The neoclassicist architect’s interest in light, space and abstraction endeared him to the modern movement, which regarded him as a forerunner
Kandinsky’s Universe: Geometric Abstraction in the 20th century
The artist who imbued geometry with spiritual meaning inspired scores of other painters, on both sides of the Atlantic
Picabia, the painter who refused to be pinned down
In his final works, some of which have never been shown before, the endlessly restless artist adopted an abstract style that challenges us to look for hidden meanings
Acquisitions of the month: January 2025
Highlights include a trove of photographs by Robert Frank and the first Bernini statue in a Dutch public collection
Prince Karim Aga Khan IV (1936–2025)
The Aga Khan IV, who has died at the age of 88, formed an important collection of Islamic art and dedicated some of his fabulous wealth to cultural heritage projects around the world
Four things to see: Puppets
To mark 85 years since the premiere of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio, here are four artworks that speak to our enduring fascination with puppetry
The loneliest Bauhaus architect in America – The Brutalist, reviewed
Brady Corbet’s epically long film starring Adrien Brody as a Bauhaus-trained architect in America conveniently pretends that all the real Bauhaus-trained architects who made it to America never existed
How artists respond to disaster
Art can never bring anything back to life, but it can help what has been lost live on in the imagination
The Donald who didn’t like Nazis
The Disney star was a marvel of 20th-century industrial production and the Second World War was his finest hour, writes Todd McEwen
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