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The making of the Monet myth
Jackie Wullschläger’s biography invites us to take another look at a painter whose canvases make a direct appeal to the eye
Pierre Huyghe: Liminal
The French artist wrestles with the limits of reality in Venice, a city famous for masks and disguises
A New Look at Van Eyck: Madonna of Chancellor Rolin
The Louvre has restored the Van Eyck masterpiece for the first time since it entered the museum in 1800
Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In
London’s National Portrait Gallery brings together the work of two photographers who worked a century apart
Roni Horn: Give Me Paradox or Give Me Death
The artist’s refusal to restrict herself to a single medium makes the Museum Ludwig’s retrospective a restless affair
Germany to replace advisory panel for Nazi-looted art with binding arbitration
Plus: Met employees and volunteers call for the museum to defend Palestinian cultural heritage, and Russian security forces raid artists’s homes before the presidential elections
Van Gogh’s potatoes are no small fry
The Dutch artist was a dab hand at painting spuds, but why haven’t more artists been inspired by the terrific tuber?
Four things to see: Isadora Duncan
To mark the anniversary of Isadora Duncan’s first performance in Europe, we look at four artworks that immortalise the trailblazing dancer
How should collectors handle restitution? – a talk at TEFAF Maastricht
Apollo editor Edward Behrens chairs a panel discussion on the complex topic of restitution in the art world
French court finds Guy Wildenstein guilty of money laundering and tax fraud
Plus: tax relief for museums and galleries in the UK is made permanent, and Lucas Samaras (1936–2024)
Acquisitions of the Month: February 2024
A Chardin still life and a pair of wooden sculptures from medieval Japan are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
Museums and the art trade get together for Asia Week New York
The annual event provides plenty of artistic surprises and has much to offer to smaller collectors
Jane Austen threatens to sully Winchester
A proposed statue of the author has caused a fuss among local residents, but does anyone really like public sculptures anyway?
Britta Marakatt-Labba: Moving the Needle
The Nasjonalmuseet Oslo’s retrospective of work by Britta Marakatt-Labba includes embroidered pieces that tell stories of Sami life
Broncia Koller-Pinell: An Artist and her Network
Paintings by the Austrian Expressionist artist are paired with work by her better-known peers at the Belvedere in Vienna
Irving Penn
Some 175 photographs spanning Irving Penn’s seven-decade career go on show at the de Young Museum in San Francisco
Soufiane Ababri
For Ababri’s first major exhibition in the UK, the Barbican’s Curve gallery is filled with works that reflect on queer life and love
Dan Flavin’s light touch
The artist bristled at attempts to analyse his work, but an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel suggests that his fluorescent fittings are still open to interpretation
In the studio with… Woody De Othello
The San Franciscan painter and ceramicist uses jazz, podcasts and Bay Area nature to help him create fantastical anthropomorphic works out of clay
Parma’s museum multiplex is now even harder to miss
The Palazzo della Pilotta contains three museums, a historic library and one of the oldest theatres in Europe – but, until its recent refurbishment, has often been overlooked
Four things to see: Mosaics
In honour of the centenary of Eduardo Paolozzi’s birth, we look at four works that convey the dazzling variety of forms mosaics have taken throughout history
Pride and prejudice in 19th-century France
Depictions of lions by leading lights of the Romantic movement and more Academic types reveal humanity’s dark side
How Peter Blake makes his sculptures Pop
The artist has always combined high and low culture, and an exhibition at Waddington Custot captures his witty approach to assemblage
Lynda Benglis’s wearable sculptures are a perfect fit
There’s a thin but fluid line between fine art and fashion for the artist who is now making accessories for Loewe
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