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In the studio with… Florence Houston
When painting her gelatinous desserts, the artist is surrounded by jelly moulds, jellies and even a mummified mouse for company
The many faces of Medardo Rosso
The sculptor’s impressionistic works – and the photographs he took of them – always highlight the humanity of his subjects
Meet two heroines of Irish modernism
Tutored in Paris in the 1920s, Dublin-born artists Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone brought a boldly avant-garde sensibility to traditional subjects
Poetic justice for the Parthenon Marbles
In her book, ‘Frieze Frame’, A.E. Stallings collects the responses of poets and artists to the marbles since the early 19th century. She tells Apollo why they now deserve a new lease of cultural life
The art of long-distance communication
The invention of the telegraph in a fractured post-Revolutionary France collapsed time and space, changing visual culture for ever
MFA Boston returns Benin Bronzes to donor opposed to restitution
Plus: the Art Institute of Chicago has been ordered to surrender an Egon Schiele work; and Guy Ullens, a major collector of contemporary Chinese art, has died
Andy Warhol enters the dustbin of history
A Dutch municipality has accidentally thrown a valuable print of Queen Beatrix out with the trash – but would the Pop art maestro really have minded?
Rosa Barba: The Ocean of One’s Pause
Covering the past 15 years of the artist’s career, this show unites film with kinetic sculpture and live performance to explore the power of light and sound
Sargent and Paris
A chance to see some 100 paintings, drawings and watercolours John Singer Sargent made during his formative years in France – including the infamous ‘Madame X’
Do Ho Suh: Walk the House
Home is where the heart is for Do Ho Suh, whose large-scale sculptures, installations, drawings and videos are on display in a major survey at Tate Modern
Out of focus, another vision of art from 1945 to the present day
Blurry effects have served all kinds of artists very well over the years, as this show at the Musée de l’Orangerie makes clear
The British Royal Family’s love of bling
The Edwardians are associated with elegance but an exhibition at the King’s Gallery in London suggests that excess was the hallmark of the age
Acquisitions of the month: March 2025
A deathly still life by Maria van Oosterwijck and a huge trove of artefacts from Roman Britain are among this month’s highlights
The duchess who scandalised Spain
The Liria Palace in Madrid is paying tribute to its late, great owner in the form of installations by Joana Vasconcelos
The Black artists who found themselves in post-war Paris
The Pompidou presents African, Caribbean and American artists who could be free in the French capital in ways often denied to them at home
Armchair travel in the Middle Ages
At the Morgan Library in New York, a selection of guides to foreign lands reveals a bustling Middle Ages full of fantastical visions
A new dawn for the art of South African wine labels
The Hazendal Wine Estate has begun inviting artists to design the labels for a new series of sparkling wines – and the results fizz with creativity
The sensational designs of Alphonse Mucha
In his posters and illustrations the art nouveau artist fused Slavic motifs with Japanese influences to create a style that was truly cutting-edge
Antoni Gaudí, God’s architect?
Pope Francis has set Catalonia’s architect-in-chief on the path to sainthood, but if the Sagrada Família is anything to go by, we could be in for a long wait
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
Some 150 works by such luminaries as Ed Rossbach, Yayoi Kusama and Ruth Asawa put a different spin on the history of abstract art
Remnants
Fifteen works of art depicting Apartheid-era South Africa in photography, prints and a painting go on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Edi Hila | Thea Djordjadze
Paintings by one of the great chroniclers of communist and post-Soviet Albania are displayed alongside site-specific works by the younger, Georgian artist Thea Djordjazde
The World of King James VI and I
The National Galleries of Scotland pull out all the stops in exploring the life and times of the Stuart king
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