The Legion of Honor explores how the two Impressionists inspired and influenced each other in painting style and subject matter over 15 years
The artist’s colourful but ambivalent paintings of the artefacts of American consumerism go on display at the Courtauld
This show at Tate Modern gives a sense of the breadth of art made in Nigeria in the decades before and after independence
Copies and fake versions of medieval art were big business in the 19th century, as this show in Paris demonstrates
The V&A’s exhibition demonstrates the doomed queen’s remarkable ability to represent whatever we want her to represent
To coincide with World Space Week, we look at four art works that explore our relationship with the celestial realm
This month’s highlights include a Francis Bacon triptych that was once the most expensive artwork ever sold and a trove of Dada and Surrealist works
In his east London studio, the Scottish artist blocks out the neighbourhood chaos with noise-cancelling headphones and tennis commentary
The newly renovated Station Hall at the National Railway Museum in York tracks 200 years of train travel, from royal dining cars to railwaymen’s outfits
On the eve of a major US survey, the artist talks to Apollo about decorating statues and the ornamental side of the British Empire
Plus: Elmgreen & Dragset blur the line between watching and taking part, and the British Museum draws links between 17th-century portraitists
The new director of the London fair is counting on Old Masters to breathe fresh life into the event
Plus: Walter Sickert’s brush with ennui, and Nicolas Party’s tribute to Rodin and Claudel
Plus: the home truths of Zofia Rydet, and some radically slim pickings at Senate House Library
Plus: Hugh Hayden’s absurdist Americana, and Joan Jonas redraws the boundaries between art forms
With the fair about to descend on Regent’s Park in London this month, here are some of the events not to miss, both indoors and out
In his virtuosic variations on the colour black, the French artist achieved an astonishing degree of variety
An exhibition of Watteau's drawings at the British Museum is a lesson in appreciating the virtues of ambiguity
As the London art world prepares for its busiest month, Hettie Judah explains why she’s planning her escape
The humble tuber, rich in its own history, has long been a source of inspiration for painters depicting the peasant classes
By turns picturesque and insalubrious, mews houses have a compellingly chequered past
When the radical patron wasn’t collecting the work of modern British artists, she was urging them to join her in protesting against nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War
An inventive show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art is a thrilling introduction to a modern master of American art
Plus: a Moscow court has sentenced the director of a museum in Estonia to 10 years in prison in absentia
