The Courtauld presents a tantalising show of work by Louise Bourgeois, Alice Adams and Eva Hesse
It was the painter’s misfortune to be surrounded by Bloomsbury Group writers whose accounts of her have been too dominant for too long
It’s been a massive month in the auction world for extinct megafauna and the objects that spelled their oblivion
Phillips sues a guarantor of a Pollock for not paying up, and Yale University Art Gallery withdraws two federal grant applications
In voluptuous paintings of cakes and other foods, the American artist captured both pleasure and a sense of surfeit
The artist soups up family photos with found imagery at the Heide Museum of Modern Art
The Peabody Essex Museum gives viewers a glimpse of the wonders of the icy woodlands around the Arctic circle
Some 200 works by the sculptor, photographer and land artist make up this sprawling exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy
The Albertina celebrates the forerunner of the Viennese Secession with a display of lively drawings
The Guennol Grasshopper is coming to auction after spending years in notable private collections, but are its origins even more illustrious?
Artists throughout history have shown that this seemingly straightforward genre can be remarkably flexible
The French painter was unusual among his Impressionist peers for preferring to depict men at work and at play
With summer in full swing, Apollo rounds up some notable examples of art on the beach, from Barcelona to Venice Beach
One of history’s most mysterious political paintings might hold lessons for our own time – if we could make out the meaning
Seventeenth-century German glassware isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but the finest examples can fetch dazzlingly high prices
A retrospective of the artist’s distinctive portraits of Black Americans has taken on a new urgency
Plus: archaeologists uncover a 3,500-year-old city in Peru; and Wael Shawky will be the first artist to curate an Art Basel fair
The original Hermès Birkin has bagged a record-breaking sum at auction, showing the enduring power of the film star’s je ne sais quoi
The poet lived at Wentworth Place for only 17 months near the end of his short life, but there he produced his greatest works and experienced some of his lowest moments
Since the Industrial Revolution, artists have envisioned a world in which work is more about job satisfaction than exploitation
The artist’s large-scale photos and installations in Edinburgh provide a stirring if uneven meditation on the politics of destruction
The Australian artist gets a sweeping retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
A chance to see work by one of the leading exponents of the Mono-ha movement at Dia Beacon
The painter and printmaker bridged Impressionism and Expressionism, as this exhibition at the Alte Nationalgalerie makes clear
