This exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum demonstrates the Flemish baroque artist’s mastery of history painting, still lifes and the male body
There’s much to enjoy at this year’s exhibition in Bradford, but radical ambition seems to be in short supply
To mark 120 years since Einstein revolutionised our understanding of physics, we look at four artworks that explore the hidden forces that animate matter
The Polish artist prefers to work alone in his Kraków studio, where the silence was recently disturbed by a visiting hornet
The artist’s early paintings were a necessary preparation for his pioneering less-is-more installations
Call them Neo-Impressionists, pointillists or divisionists, the artists who followed in the wake of their older French contemporaries had a distinctive way of seeing the world
The emergence of Le Creuset cookware a century ago sparked a change in how home kitchens both looked and functioned
To coincide with a show at TM Gallery in London, the artist talked to Apollo about working with materials popular in the Middle Ages and the insights of neuroscience
The first fully fledged edition of the event offers a fast-paced guide to the city’s thriving contemporary art scene
The National Gallery is the latest UK arts institution to announce a citizens’ assembly. But what does this involve – and will any real decisions be taken?
Efforts to return works looted by the Nazis are becoming ever more complicated
The boxer’s draft card is up for sale at Christie’s next month. Normally a museum would be the best home, but which one is a more complicated question than it used to be
Plus: thieves steal €600,000 of gold from the natural history museum in Paris
This sprawling exhibition in Florence allows us to see the master’s frescoes and altarpieces in situ as well as bringing together numerous smaller works
There was much more to the artist’s oeuvre than meals frozen in time, as this exhibition at the Deichtor Hallen in Hamburg makes clear
A chance to see the paintings, drawings and watercolours John Singer Sargent made during his formative years in France – including the once scandalous ‘Madame X’
The Whitney explores the many ways in which the Surrealist spirit found its way into American art between 1958 and 1972
The painter’s hugely restrained works are usually described as figurative, but perhaps they mark the precise point where abstraction and figuration meet
A new book by Leslie Primo argues that cultural cross-pollination is at the heart of Britain’s national story
Collecting paintings made after 1900 might restart a border dispute with the Tate, but the rewards for audiences could be significant
The only drawback of the Scottish painter’s New York studio is that he’ll have to leave it next year. In the meantime, he’s enjoying the quiet, undisturbed by a taxidermied pheasant
From a Louis XVI clock to an Eileen Gray armchair once owned by Yves Saint Laurent, there's something for everyone at FAB Paris
Little known for centuries after his death in 1652, except as a French follower of Caravaggio, the painter is now rightly recognised as a singular talent
The artist is auctioning off the contents of her pied-à-terre in Paris, including a magnificent Louis Vuitton trunk-cum-dressing-up-box
