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The very smart cars of Ettore Bugatti
With its sensuous design and sleek fittings, the Bugatti 57C Vanvooren – like many of the manufacturer’s models – has become a style icon
The Frick Collection makes a triumphant return to Fifth Avenue
The beloved New York museum is reopening its doors after a four-year refurbishment – and there’s more to delight the public than ever before
When a picture looks good enough to eat
This chronicle of iconophagy – the act of consuming an image – is an enlightening if occasionally stodgy read
In the studio with… A.A. Murakami
The married artists live in rural Japan, surrounded by the clacking of bamboo in the forest and the sights of misty hills
How two artists have weathered one stormy marriage
The ups and downs in the lives of photographer Joel Meyerowitz and the writer and artist Maggie Barrett makes for documentary dynamite
Munch behind the mask
Self-portraits and depictions of family and friends build a picture of the ‘Scream’ artist as insider rather than outsider, more savvy than angsty
On the eggcentricities of Hitchcock and Dalí
The Psycho director may have hated them, but for those who aren’t as easily shell-shocked, eggs can crack open a whole new world
Art Dubai opens a gateway to the future
The biggest art fair in the Middle East is highlighting projects from the Global South and offering alternatives to Western traditions of displaying art
National Endowment for the Humanities funds intended for Trump sculpture park
Plus: the global value of art sales has fallen by 12 per cent, and Pierre Terjanian will be the next director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
What Wellington bought after Waterloo
An exhibition of the Dutch paintings the 1st Duke of Wellington purchased in Paris reveals another aspect of an extraordinary life
A €37,500 cocktail to leave even a king shaken and stirred
To mark its 260th birthday Baccarat has mixed a €37,000 cocktail, which would make even Louis XV, who granted the crystal-maker its warrant, pause before drinking up
Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers
Filling the rotunda of the Guggenheim in New York, this survey of the protean American artist captures his verve, bite and intellectual range
Tarō Okamoto: Reinventing Japan
One of the most distinctive Japanese artists of the 20th century gets a survey in Paris, the city that shaped his art and worldview in the 1930s
Jennie C. Jones: Ensemble
The American minimalist has always been fascinated by sound, and is now bringing her string-instrument sculptures to the Met’s rooftop
Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition 2025
Dozens of instantly arresting photographs taken around the world in the last year go on display in this annual show at Somerset House
Design takes a front seat again in Milan
Milan Design Week is, at its best, a comforting reminder of how good design can transform our lives
The fashion house with a bias for the surreal and fantastic in craft
An exhibition in Tokyo celebrating the artists and artisans Loewe has worked with over the decades is tailor-made for craft lovers
David Salle’s brush with artificial intelligence
The artist has used AI to reinterpret some of his old paintings. He explains to Apollo how this technology has given him a newfound freedom
The drugged-up doodles of Henri Michaux
The artist’s mescaline trips in the 1950s and ’60s led to extraordinary acts of creativity, when he tried to pin down their effect on paper
Has the market for women artists stalled?
After rising for a decade, prices for women artists are levelling off. Is the current downturn just a temporary blip?
Smithsonian head tells staff institution ‘remains steadfast’
Plus: director of National Museum of African American History and Culture resigns, and Bavaria’s culture minister promises reform of State Paintings Collection after allegations of institutional failure
The sonic visions of Oliver Beer
The artist tells Apollo how he harnesses the natural resonance of spaces, from caves to tube stations, to create his innovative paintings and installations
No smoking for David Hockney on the Paris metro
Posters of the artist’s upcoming show have been pulled for featuring a cigarette – but he’s hardly the only painter who’s been partial to a puff
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Suzanne Treister’s tarot offers humanity a new toolbox
The artist has updated her ‘Hexen’ deck charting the rise of the military-industrial complex for an age of climate crisis and disinformation