The much-loved author cut his teeth on illustrations for medical ad campaigns – which proved ideal training for the world of children's books
In ‘What Artists Wear’, Charlie Porter casts an eye over the wardrobe choices of everyone from Barbara Hepworth to Jean-Michel Basquiat
Modern masters from Joseph Cornell to Paul Klee have produced works expressly for children, writes Ben Street – but perhaps all great art is a type of child’s play?
With mass tourism poised to return, have local politicians and cultural leaders finally worked out how to manage the crowds?
When the weather permits, the artist builds her textile sculptures in the cobblestone courtyard of her studio in the heart of Paris
A new biography of the British painter has a fine sense of his precocious talent – and real feeling for his rakish charm
Mars has never seemed closer, with rovers spamming us with photos from its surface
The contents of the late scientist’s office are heading to the Science Museum in London – and it’s not the first workspace to be preserved in this way
The Palazzo Vendramin Grimani has opened with a display that reunites some of the paintings it was once home to – plus a helping of contemporary art
An early commission by the painter for a public theatre in Rijeka is the subject of a major display in the city this summer
With the government waging its 'culture war', the independence of national museums is at stake, write Chris Smith and Margot Finn
A temporary display of the museum's collection telescopes time and space to group objects thematically – but is this a productive path to follow?
Stolen objects include the rosary that Mary, Queen of Scots took to her execution
At Modern Art Oxford, the artist has set the stage for a ceremony initiating visitors into a utopian world of racial justice
Long thought lost by scholars, a spectacular silver gilt monstrance by Luigi Valadier has now been tracked down to a Central American basilica
The Iraqi-American artist talks to Apollo about making an anti-war memorial in Margate – and about ‘problem-solving and trouble-making’ with his art
Heston Blumenthal’s homage to the famous dish is served up in the V&A’s Alice in Wonderland show
The fair's organisers are optimistic that Hong Kong can remain an international art hub despite political turmoil in the city
Having picked up the paintbrush for film roles, the actor found that he couldn't stop painting – and he now has a solo show of his own
Even if the Cerne Abbas giant is Anglo-Saxon, that doesn't make it pagan – after all, Christians were no prudes in those days
This wide-ranging book explores how women artists used self-portraiture to establish themselves in a man’s world
The first survey show dedicated to the ‘Queen of Bohemia’ presents a flamboyant figure who was single-minded about her art
The meticulous attention to Chinese decorative arts is as great a draw as the court intrigue in ‘Story of Yanxi Palace’
