In works such as ‘The Communist: A Political Meeting’, the Welsh painter Evan Walters captured the hopes and fears of working-class communities
Eleanor Pinfield, director of Art on the Underground, talks to Apollo about the excitements and challenges of commissioning art for a subterranean audience
At Hatchlands Park in Surrey, Alec Cobbe lives with the likes of Guercino, Allori and Titian – a fitting collection for the Renaissance man he is
Paul Poiret over-extended himself in every way and died a commercial failure but a century later, his designs still have the power to startle
As emerging global powers are using culture to further their political and economic goals, is Britain keeping up?
The sculptures of Conrad Shawcross, several of which are installed in vineyards around the world, have a clear affinity with the craft of wine-making
Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth are ever in demand, but the market for their lesser-known contemporaries is growing too
Plus: Amy Sherald condemns Trump administration’s interference at the Smithsonian, and Art Gallery of New South Wales staff protest against cutting of 51 jobs
The news that the artist has reunited with Gagosian after four years in the wilderness prompts Rakewell to ponder art about returning home
The turn of the century brought with it a new wave of haunting approaches to art, literature, philosophy and more
The South African artist’s 70th birthday is marked by an exhibition in Essen that covers the full sweep of his career
People in the Middle Ages travelled for many different reasons – and in many different ways – as these illuminated manuscripts attest
In her large-scale canvases, the artist combines the floridity of rococo painting with a very modern mode of abstraction
The artist and occultist’s rapturous account of her travels around Ireland give a glimpse into her surreal view of the world
Collectors of ceramics marking great battles, royal weddings and even Acts of Parliament are rare but dedicated
The Californian artist made a splash in the 1960s, but withdrew from the commercial art world to devote himself to Zen Buddhism
The decision to demolish Grenfell Tower – where 72 people died in a fire in 2017 – is inevitably controversial, but the process of doing so will be unusually considered
Plus: Dallas Museum of Art appoints Brian Ferriso director; Tanya Bonakdar to close LA space
The French artist believed in his paintings being stylistically uniform and infinitely replicable – an idea that, a century on, has not done him any favours
Artworks made from the rapper’s discarded blunts has soared at auction, reminding Rakewell of the ties between smoking and art history
The artist’s vividly illustrated hand-printed books are the focus of this show at the Yale Center for British Art
This painter of enigmatic outdoor scenes and domestic interiors gets her first European retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag – and is still active at the age of 98
A range of arresting works by the pre-eminent artists of the Edo period go on display at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles
Dozens of paintings from the heyday of Spanish colonial art go on display at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin
