This Valentine’s Day, we examine four artworks, spanning more than 2,000 years, inspired by love in its many different forms
The winner of the competition to redesign the most popular galleries will be announced next month, but are the finalists thinking hard enough what the museum should really be?
Whether Orphism can be called a coherent movement is one thing, but its practitioners produced some excellent art
Thirty years after the novelist's death, Apollo revisits the Ripley creator's close ties to the visual arts
A touring exhibition of gladiatorial objects found in Britain makes a stab at getting to the heart of our fascination with the amphitheatre, but does it succeed?
The home the writer designed for herself in the hills of Massachusetts is a window on to the shifting tastes of Gilded Age America
The art world tends to favour self-promoting extroverts, but it is often the eccentrics and wallflowers who make the most interesting work
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The British Library’s exhibition of women in the Middle Ages who were creative and intellectual pioneers is a red-carpet affair
See the opening exhibition at PoMo, Norway’s newest private museum and northerly outpost of modern and contemporary art
Posh is showing a raft of contemporary artworks at her London showroom, but will the Richters distract from the beautiful clothes on sale?
The Pasadena museum marks its 50th birthday by showing off its most important acquisitions
The neoclassicist architect’s interest in light, space and abstraction endeared him to the modern movement, which regarded him as a forerunner
The artist who imbued geometry with spiritual meaning inspired scores of other painters, on both sides of the Atlantic
In his final works, some of which have never been shown before, the endlessly restless artist adopted an abstract style that challenges us to look for hidden meanings
Highlights include a trove of photographs by Robert Frank and the first Bernini statue in a Dutch public collection
The Aga Khan IV, who has died at the age of 88, formed an important collection of Islamic art and dedicated some of his fabulous wealth to cultural heritage projects around the world
To mark 85 years since the premiere of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio, here are four artworks that speak to our enduring fascination with puppetry
Brady Corbet’s epically long film starring Adrien Brody as a Bauhaus-trained architect in America conveniently pretends that all the real Bauhaus-trained architects who made it to America never existed
Art can never bring anything back to life, but it can help what has been lost live on in the imagination
The Disney star was a marvel of 20th-century industrial production and the Second World War was his finest hour, writes Todd McEwen
Helen Gordon charts the fall and cultural rise of the Ensisheim meteorite of 1492
A textural triumph and a sensual delight, this distinctly '80s ice cream is as pleasing to look at as it is to consume
Two restored masterpieces – one vast in scale, the other intimate – are being shown together for the first time to give us fresh insights into ‘the first light of Renaissance painting’