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How Robert Adam brought Diocletian’s palace to the Thames
This magazine’s first home, the Adelphi was both a neoclassical triumph and a financial disaster for ‘Bob the Roman’
Venice Biennale to follow Koyo Kouoh’s vision
Plus: lost Mayan city discovered in Guatemala, and investment company set to buy Artnet and take it private
The Louvre puts on its first fashion show
High fashion meets fine art for the first time in an exhibition at the Paris museum. With so much to see, it‘s hard to know where to look
Coming soon, everywhere: International David Lynch Day?
On 18 June, you can eat in a Twin Peaks’-themed diner, see David Lynch’s art in Prague – and bid on the director’s very own coffee machine
Design and Disability
The V&A tells the story of how disabled, deaf and neurodivergent people have shaped and inspired modern design over the last 80 years
Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger: Emancipation from Rodin
In Berlin, the Alte Nationalgalerie’s restaging of a 1905 exhibition in Paris shows how both artists were developing their own sculptural languages
Face to Face: 19th-century Austrian portrait painting
Salzburg’s DomQuartier presents portraits by painters who were forced to get more creative after the advent of photography
Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues
The artist pairs her paintings of eerily abstracted faces and bodies with archaeological objects from the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens
Audio gets visual at the Barbican this summer
‘Feel the Sound’ makes imaginative use of the brutalist building to convey the power of sound, but sometimes silence can be just as effective
Four things to see: Myths and legends
To commemorate the anniversary of the death of Peter Paul Rubens, who frequently depicted mythological characters, we look at four artworks that bring classical tales to life
Wining and dining with Duccio
The Old Master was hardly alone among his contemporaries in being partial to a glass – or a bottle – of red
The Department of Culture badly needs a sense of direction
Recent denials that the department for culture, media and sport is for the chop don’t address the problem of its glaring lack of purpose
Face to face with Oliver Osborne
The artist talks to Apollo about how paint can conceal any number of mysteries in a seemingly straightforward portrait
‘The ghost of a figure shimmers into view’
Robert Macfarlane is fascinated by a watery bronze by British sculptor Laurence Edwards
When Chinese goods first went global
The Met takes the well-trodden story of chinoiserie over the centuries and gives it a welcome feminist twist
When art deco went to the movies
The distinctive London cinemas designed by George Coles in the 1930s were like Hawksmoor churches for the celluloid age
Meet a new power-player in the world of animal diplomacy
Is it time for the Smithsonian pandas to roll over? An agreement with Saudi Arabia means there‘s a new mammalian ambassador in town
Acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado dies at 81
Plus: chair of Creative Australia resigns in Venice Biennale controversy | directors of Jewish museum in Washington condemn murder of Israeli embassy staff outside building
The curious career of Jan van Kessel
In his teeming depiction of animals about to enter the ark, Jan van Kessel put an inventive spin on an original by his grandfather, Jan Brueghel the Elder
The Venice Architecture Biennale is branching out, but has it gone too far?
This year’s festival is the largest edition yet, but a display of outsize ambition doesn’t resolve its internal contradictions
Venice and the Ottoman Empire
The Frist Museum considers the mercantile republic as a melting pot, where foreign fashions, customs and food were readily absorbed
Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron
The Morgan Library shows that, although she didn’t own a camera until she was 48, Cameron nudged photography into the realm of fine art
Paolo Veronese
The Prado’s survey of one of the great painters of 16th-century Venice also considers his influences – and the artists he influenced in turn
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