The Met Cloisters presents a menagerie of objects that demonstrate the role of imaginary beasts in people’s everyday lives from 500–1500
This major retrospective at Tate Britain suggests that the artist’s favourite subject was paint itself
The intrepid painter didn’t just capture American landscapes from coast to coast – he depicted majestic vistas all over the world
The 12 paintings the artist made for the women’s canteen of a chocolate factory in Oslo go on public display at the Munchmuseet
The artist’s love of gold and other metallic pigments shines through in his paintings, from his interest in Japanese lacquers to the very titles of his work
To mark 90 years since Amy Johnson flew from London to Cape Town and back in eight days, we look at four artworks that chart life in the skies
In Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, The Christophers, Ian McKellen’s once-celebrated artist hasn’t put brush to canvas for decades. Creating his cluttered, crusted-over studio was a gift of a project for production designer Antonia Lowe
There’s plenty of arresting art this year, but the most memorable might be Gabrielle Goliath’s work for the cancelled South Africa pavlion
A series of works by the artist coming to auction give greater insight into his meteoric rise
At the National Gallery Singapore, the winner of this year’s Craft Prize – and the other shortlisted works – offer an invigorating vision of the possibilities of making
The photographer talks to Apollo about how she prepared to represent New Zealand at the Venice Biennale – all without a studio
As New York edition of TEFAF celebrates its first decade, galleries will be bringing works with a modern and decorative edge to the Park Avenue Armory this month
The fair has never been more international, but many of its pleasures are rooted in its links with the local art scene
‘Fountain’ is perhaps the most famous artwork of the 20th century, but its creator’s intentions are still endlessly debated
In Rakewell’s opinion, Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s Bacon-esque painting for the cover of the band’s upcoming LP is their best album art in decades
Plus: Kader Attia to curate Kochi-Muziris Biennial | Building of US border wall damages archaeological site | United States returns 650 looted artefacts to India | Collector Doris Fisher dies at 94 | winners of Max Mara and Archibald Prizes announced
The Met opens the new Condé M. Nast Galleries with this expansive show of fashion through the centuries
The artist is filling the museum’s Duveen Galleries with an expansive installation about migration and memory
Thirty shortlisted works in an impressive range of forms and materials go on display at the National Gallery Singapore
SFMOMA recreates the Salon d’Automne of 1905, when a portrait of the artist’s wife shocked viewers and set Fauvism in motion
The Chinese American artist excelled at stagy scenes of San Francisco’s Chinatown as well as moody New York nocturnes
Though best known as a jewellery artist working at a minute scale, Chan has scaled up by creating two monumental installations in Venice and Shanghai
Dreamed up by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis in the 1920s, the Italianate village on the north Wales coast is still a delightful lesson in how to take frivolity in design seriously
The Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, an offbeat gem of the city’s arts scene, faces an uncertain future along with many other organisations
