Paul Greenhalgh’s ambitious survey takes us from the ancient Greeks to Picasso and beyond
Works produced in prison by the artist Fatos Irwen speak to the increasingly repressive climate for Kurds in Turkey
The painter offers a glimpse of her canalside studio in London, where she works alone save for her portrait sitters – and a stuffed toy camel on wheels
The visual arts have often toyed with odours and smells, however challenging they are to represent
A survey of new Australian art presents a planet in crisis – but it’s more uplifting than it sounds
A retrospective at the Pera Museum in Istanbul demonstrates the vast geographic sweep of the Lebanese-American artist's work and biography – including her Ottoman roots
The TV competition series is billed as a ‘masterclass’ – and none of the contestants will be booted off until the finale. Where’s the fun in that?
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
