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
The Dutch artist was a dab hand at painting spuds, but why haven’t more artists been inspired by the terrific tuber?
To mark the anniversary of Isadora Duncan’s first performance in Europe, we look at four artworks that immortalise the trailblazing dancer
Apollo editor Edward Behrens chairs a panel discussion on the complex topic of restitution in the art world
Plus: tax relief for museums and galleries in the UK is made permanent, and Lucas Samaras (1936–2024)
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
The annual event provides plenty of artistic surprises and has much to offer to smaller collectors
A proposed statue of the author has caused a fuss among local residents, but does anyone really like public sculptures anyway?
The Nasjonalmuseet Oslo’s retrospective of work by Britta Marakatt-Labba includes embroidered pieces that tell stories of Sami life
Paintings by the Austrian Expressionist artist are paired with work by her better-known peers at the Belvedere in Vienna
Some 175 photographs spanning Irving Penn’s seven-decade career go on show at the de Young Museum in San Francisco
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
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
The San Franciscan painter and ceramicist uses jazz, podcasts and Bay Area nature to help him create fantastical anthropomorphic works out of clay
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
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
Depictions of lions by leading lights of the Romantic movement and more Academic types reveal humanity’s dark side
The artist has always combined high and low culture, and an exhibition at Waddington Custot captures his witty approach to assemblage
There’s a thin but fluid line between fine art and fashion for the artist who is now making accessories for Loewe
Among the exhibitions that can be seen in a day trip from the fair are Frans Hals in Amsterdam, Immanuel Kant in Bonn and Sung Hwan Kim in Eindhoven
Plus: The Palestinian artist Fathi Ghaben has died after being unable to leave Gaza for medical treatment
In the 18th century, Europe was swept by a trend for art that revealed the inner lives of its subjects – and the Swiss painter encapsulated the ideas of the age
The museum has announced an opening for a Taylor Swift ‘superfan’ – but this bid for commercial appeal doesn’t seem to be reflected by the salary on offer
The Met is pairing ancient Andean weaving with textiles by 20th-century women artists to explore the ties that bind them.
