The classically trained actor’s most famous role was Sybil in Fawlty Towers: a character who once seemed like a battle-axe, but is clearly a feminist icon
Plus: the White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts; and a US climate protestor has been sentenced to 18 months in prison
After a seven-year closure, the museum’s resistance of easy definitions of ‘Black’ art and its determination to serve the local community couldn’t be more necessary
The Guggenheim displays some 60 paintings by the German Expressionist, along with snapshots she took on her travels in the United States
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston presents some 50 rarely glimpsed paintings of rivers, seas, forests and mountains by the American realist
The painter was a product of the Enlightenment, which might explain why he had such a knack for illuminating a subject
The Louvre is flexing its muscles by displaying the drawings that led to frescoes for one of the great Renaissance ceilings
The country’s art scene isn’t afraid to find time to stop and stare – but it does so with a healthy dose of mischief
As spooky season descends, we look at four artworks that embrace the macabre and the fantastical
The dissolution of certainties about American power now has its perfect visual emblem – in the form of bulldozers reducing part of the White House to rubble
Marla Aaron has worked with a Bavarian royal porcelain manufactory for her latest series – and the collaboration looks to be a perfect fit
The Musée d'Ennery is a hidden gem: a belle époque collection of East Asian art that is well worth the effort it requires to get in
The cultural legacy of Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and co. is undeniable but, with the design, fashion, art and literary worlds forever ‘rediscovering’ them, perhaps it’s time to move on
An exhibition in Vienna confirms the baroque artist’s status as a great painter
The Rijksmuseum lifts the curtain on the real lives behind the serene interiors of De Hooch and Vermeer
After a gloomy few years, promising auction results and some exciting upcoming sales suggest that the market could be on the road to recovery
The city-wide event, now in its 28th year, is still serving up surprises for collectors, scholars and enthusiasts alike
Pieces from the 17th and 18th centuries are incredibly varied and there are bargains to be had
Manuel Mujica Lainez's riddling novel is haunted by more than the stony monsters of its narrator's beloved sculpture park
Puffing away is definitely deleterious to your health, but it can still be a ripe subject for art
The artist’s idyllic vision of his garden in Kent looks an even more tempting retreat in today’s troubled world
In ‘Black Atlas’, the artist gives the Aby Warburg’s innovative approach to art history a powerful new purpose
At TM Gallery in London, the figurative painter talked to Apollo about her beginnings as an artist and the painters who inspire her
Although not usually associated with Asian art, Morgan kept this work of Qing-dynasty porcelain next to his desk in his private library
