Pope Francis seems to be a fan of contemporary art – and he’s hardly the first pontiff to have encouraged the latest artistic developments
Rebecca Birrell’s absorbing book asks us to look beneath the surface of work by women artists – but perhaps a rose sometimes really is just a rose?
The fair is determined to keep growing, but not at the expense of the boutique atmosphere that sets it apart
The novelist revered Raphael’s Sistine Madonna – and Holbein’s Dead Christ almost induced an epileptic fit
Nicholas Penny’s survey of 17th- and 18th-century Italian paintings in the Norton Simon Museum reveals the astute figure behind the collections
As the London to Brighton Veteran Car run celebrates its 125th anniversary, Apollo asks what it's like to take a museum piece out on the road. Poop poop!
In Istanbul, an exhibition of works created by women between 1850 and 1950 has made some impressive finds
The sculptor talks to Apollo about the role of chance, rap music, and investigating spirituality
Apollo presents the winners of the Asian Art in London Art Awards 2021
The moustachioed can get into the Wallace Collection’s Frans Hals exhibition for free on Mondays – but Rakewell has a much better idea
Plus: Dutch court rules for return of Crimean artefacts to Ukraine, and more stories
The artists featured in this exhibition didn’t share the same outlook or methods, but their variousness is part of the point
Sadie Frost’s documentary about the designer is hardly original, but then Quant didn’t actually invent the miniskirt – and it doesn’t hurt to be reminded of her genius
From famille-verte vases to contemporary ink paintings – Emma Crichton-Miller selects her highlights from this year’s event
An exhibition in Belfast marking 100 years of the country treads rather carefully, for understandable reasons
It’s not easy to repackage a museum devoted to a Victorian missionary, but the David Livingstone Birthplace Museum has pulled it off
Bernadine Bröcker Wieder and Douglas McCarthy consider what museums are really selling when they mint NFTs – and what serious collectors want
A monumental two-part survey in Philadelphia and New York proves that the artist has always forged his own path
Time is suspended in Nicolas Poussin’s paintings of dancers who revel in the viewer’s attention
Centre Pompidou postpones renovations until after Paris Olympics, and the Ahmanson Foundation partners with the Huntington Library
Rakewell is delighted to learn that the superstar TV gardener is also something of an art aficionado
The discovery that the astrologer’s ‘scrying glass’ is made of obsidian from Mexico points to the complex global webs surrounding many Tudor objects
There’s more than one way to knock a figure off its pedestal, as a documentary about dressing up public monuments in Liverpool shows
The Ghanaian artist’s vivid prints, paintings and architectural structures were inspired by inner-city life in Kumasi
