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Turin’s new photo festival takes a wide-angled view of the world

An ambitious new event features several photographers seeing colonial histories through a contemporary lens

28 May 2024

When does food become art?

Paying hundreds of pounds for a dessert may seem excessive, but we wouldn’t think it an unreasonable price for a work of art

28 May 2024

Bridgerton takes liberties with the past – and Liberty takes liberties with Bridgerton

Bridgerton provides all manner of pleasures on screen, but can a real-life partnership with Liberty come up to snuff?

24 May 2024

Kehinde Wiley denies allegations of sexual assault

Plus: the Manhattan District Attorney returns 133 antiquities to Pakistan | and Brooke Lampley, global chairman and head of global fine art at Sotheby’s, is moving to Gagosian

24 May 2024

Gregory Crewdson: Retrospective

The artist‘s eerie, staged photographs of small-town America are on display in a show that traces the development of his distinctive style

24 May 2024

Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women

The Smithsonian celebrates a group of 20th-century women whose innovative work helped bring textile art out of the shadows

24 May 2024

On Thin Ice: Dutch Depictions of Extreme Weather

Artists in the Low Countries were particularly interested in documenting the Little Ice Age of the 17th century, as this show at the Getty demonstrates

24 May 2024

Vanessa Bell: A Pioneer of Modern Art

Paintings, drawings and lesser-known textiles by the Bloomsbury Group’s leading artist go on display at the Courtauld

24 May 2024

Four things to see: Bridges

As 24 May marks the anniversary of the openings of two iconic bridges, we look at how these engineering marvels have been captured in art around the world

24 May 2024

‘My art’s got to be a carnival, I’m there with you’ – an interview with Alvaro Barrington

Ahead of his Tate Britain commission, the artist tells Apollo about being inspired by Tupac and Cy Twombly and wanting to involve communities in everything he makes

24 May 2024

The revolutionary textiles of Britta Marakatt-Labba

The influential Sami artist talks to Apollo about how she has always woven politics and protest into her work

23 May 2024

‘This is to art what constitutional monarchy is to kingship’ – Jonathan Yeo’s portrait of Charles III, reviewed

The painting perfectly captures the essence of royalty today – it’s undeniably attention-grabbing, but hollow to the core

22 May 2024

The artists who were obsessed with West Sussex

Blake, Constable and Ivon Hitchens all feature in Alexandra Harris’s account of a place she knows well, but it’s the more obscure figures who really shine

22 May 2024

In the studio with… Joan Semmel

The New York native keeps up with current affairs, listens to Radio Garden and works every day – that is, when she’s not entertaining Leonardo DiCaprio

21 May 2024

Golden Boy goes home – but where is that, exactly?

The Met’s return of a bronze statue to Thailand and the reaction in Cambodia shows the difficulty of recovering the origins of looted objects

20 May 2024

The week in art news – Christie’s New York sales hold up despite cyber-attack

Plus: Vatican Museums employees bring legal action over working conditions, and the film-maker Mohammad Rasoulof has been smuggled out of Iran

19 May 2024

Cashville skyline – an abstract Bob Dylan is up for auction

The musician once gave this painting away for free, but the times, they have a-changed and he not busy being born is busy buying

18 May 2024

Make a date with the Stone of Destiny at the new Perth Museum

The ancient Scottish relic makes for a captivating moment of theatre, but the rest of the displays are just as artfully done

18 May 2024

Judy Chicago: Revelations

In this survey of the artist’s six-decade career at the Serpentine, drawings take centre stage

17 May 2024

Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour

The artist’s 10-channel film about the life and legacy of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass has been recently acquired by MoMA

17 May 2024

Art and Social Change in Spain (1885–1910)

Spanish painting took a more realistic turn in the late 19th century, as this exhibition at the Prado demonstrates

17 May 2024

Four things to see: Toys and games

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the invention of the Rubik’s Cube, we look at four toys and games spanning centuries and continents that offer different perspectives on how to have fun

17 May 2024

‘I am every conservator’s nightmare – that person who wants to touch the art’

Seeing art is often a purely visual experience, but we shouldn’t be afraid of exploring our other senses in the gallery

16 May 2024

Bohemian rhapsodies – Augustus John and his brilliant friends

In a show at Piano Nobile, the artist and his circle vie for our attention with the women who made their art possible

15 May 2024