Plus: UK government reintroduces Holocaust Memorial Bill; and video artist Bill Viola has died at the age of 73
A tourist has been caught in the throes of passion with a statue of the god of wine, but perhaps she was merely giving into the effects of Stendhal syndrome
The artist’s new film installation at MACBA is inspired by Bizet’s Carmen and themes of performance, death and tragedy
The artist has been at the forefront of activist art in Britain for half a century, as this exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery attests
Ink rubbing, a method of copying the texture of an object’s surface, originated in China as early as 600 BC and is the subject of a new show at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
At the Wadsworth Atheneum, two 16th-century panels showing the miracle of Saint Gregory bring up thorny questions of attribution and conservation
The controversial proposal to put contemporary stained glass into the cathedral is part of a centuries-long debate about a surprisingly mutable material
Though she remains best known as a writer, the French avant-gardist was a formidable force behind the camera, as a season at the ICA in London demonstrates
When viewed in the right environment, the artist’s sculptures in light and experimental films illuminate new ways to think about objects in space
The British-Iranian artist Laila Tara H’s refined images are thoughtfully framed to express her frustration with a patriarchal society – but never at the expense of playfulness
The new Staffordshire volume marks the completion of the revised Buildings of England series – and the end of a publishing era
The artist observes a long working day in her studio in Harringay, but enjoys listening to bashment, riding her Peloton and thumbing through books by Kerry James Marshall
The work of Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot and their female contemporaries is now in great demand, but very short supply
The pioneering video artist has died at the age of 73. In this interview from our March 2014 issue, he talked to Apollo about how his work grapples with some of life’s biggest questions
A three-minute-long trailer for Ridley Scott’s sequel to Gladiator drops tantalising clues about what kind of spectacle to expect in November
Plus: the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation gets a new president, and a 4,000-year-old temple and theatre complex is unearthed in northern Peru
To coincide with the Paris Olympics, the Fitzwilliam looks at the cultural ramifications of when the city last hosted the event
Yorkshire Sculpture Parks presents the works on paper, plasters – and the bronze sculptures for which the artist is best known – that entered its collection in 2020
At the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, five Japanese artists try to bring the human and natural worlds into better harmony
Geography made Scotland a key location during this period of geopolitical tension. National Museums Scotland looks at the relics of this recent past
Gardens aren’t just lovesome things. In the writer’s gently rambling book on the subject, they are seedbeds of rebellion too
Before and after the Second World War, David Bomberg explored a vertiginous new style of landscape painting – and his student Frank Auerbach was clearly taking notes
Between the Bruges and Beaufort Triennials, contemporary art enthusiasts are spoiled for choice – and may see some unexpected sights
Most paintings of the Virgin Mary show her holding the divine infant, but a 14th-century panel by Cenni di Francesco reminds us of more earthy realities
