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Naples in Paris

The Louvre makes room for 60 Italian masterpieces from the Museo di Capodimonte

26 May 2023
Bust of Marcus Aurelius, Roman (detail; 161–180 AD). Roman site and Museum of Avenches and Cantonal Museum of Archeology and History, State of Vaud

The Gold Emperor from Aventicum

A remarkable bust of Marcus Aurelius makes an exceptional excursion from Switzerland to Los Angeles

26 May 2023

The grand ambitions of Venice’s new centre for photography

Located on the tiny island of San Giorgio, Le Stanze della Fotografia hopes to become a landmark in Italy

26 May 2023

The price of nothing and the value of everything

A surprising statement from Nicholas Serota leads Rakewell to reflect on the nature of ‘value’

26 May 2023

Auction highlights – a window on the world of Pierre Boulez

The famously irascible composer’s collection is up for sale at Artcurial in Paris this month – and it’s full of unexpected delights

26 May 2023

All change at the Venice Architecture Biennale?

With its focus on architects from Africa and its diasporas, the main exhibition curated by Lesley Lokko is a breath of fresh air

25 May 2023

Mining meaning in Middlesbrough

Locals and celebrities have banded together to offer a compelling range of perspectives on the industrial history of the Yorkshire town

23 May 2023

The week in art news – Supreme Court rules against Warhol Foundation in copyright lawsuit

Plus: five men sentenced for Dresden jewellery heist, Lisa Schiff reportedly shuts up shop after lawsuit, and the rest of the week’s top stories

19 May 2023
The Wreck of Hope (detail; 2022), Tacita Dean. Courtesy the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery (New York/Paris/Los Angeles) and Frith Street Gallery, London; photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio

Tacita Dean

The artist reflects on the fragility of the planet at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris

19 May 2023

The Casablanca Art School

The Tate St Ives reveals how the experimental institution reimagined Moroccan art in the years after independence

19 May 2023

Baroque – Out of Darkness

The Statens Museum for Kunst considers 17th-century developments in science and philosophy inspired new styles of painting

19 May 2023

How to live like Courtney Love

The grunge goddess seems very comfortable in her celebrity skin these days, if a recent interview is anything to go by

19 May 2023

From Bruce Lee to Blobbyland – a guide to London Gallery Weekend

With more than 150 exhibitions staged across the capital, Apollo’s editors pick out the ones they don’t want to miss

19 May 2023
Flat Top (2008), Hurvin Anderson. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery; photo: Hugh Kelly; © Hurvin Anderson

Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings

The artist has been painting the same Birmingham barbershop for 15 years – and the results are now on show at the Hepworth Wakefield

18 May 2023

London’s most gruesome museum is back – and weirder than ever

The Hunterian Museum has reconsidered the ethics of showing human remains without sacrificing its weird charm

18 May 2023

A short guide to Carlo Scarpa’s Venice

Christina Makris goes in search of the work of the architect renowned for marrying traditional craftsmanship to modernist details

17 May 2023
black and white photograph of a Japanese woman standing against a textured wall

Eriko Inazaki wins the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize

The Japanese ceramicist was awarded the top prize for her ingenious work at a ceremony in New York

17 May 2023
La Grande Bouffe film still

Punishment for gluttons: La Grande Bouffe at 50

Marco Ferreri’s ode to eating may be one of the most disgusting films about food ever made

17 May 2023

American Watercolours, 1880–1990: Into the Light

The Harvard Art Museums shows that the medium is considerably less wishy-washy – and more modern – than it sometimes seems

14 May 2023

China’s Hidden Century

The British Museum represents a century and more of imperial decline, civil uprisings and the birth of the modern republic in objects

12 May 2023

Josephine Baker. Freedom – Equality – Humanity

How the Missouri-born dancer became a sensation in Parisian night clubs and a champion of civil rights in the United States

12 May 2023

Larry Achiampong: Wayfinder

The British-Ghanaian artist’s work tackles histories of travel, migration and displacement

12 May 2023

Auction highlights – Basquiat is still very much in fashion

Sotheby’s and Christie’s are both hoping to capitalise on the artist’s luxury status next week

12 May 2023
Actress Olivia de Havilland lying on a bed

The Olivia de Havilland sale deserves to be a soaring success

The actor best known for playing the saintly Melanie Hamilton in ‘Gone with the Wind’ was made of much sterner stuff in real life

12 May 2023