The French artist believed in his paintings being stylistically uniform and infinitely replicable – an idea that, a century on, has not done him any favours
Collectors of ceramics marking great battles, royal weddings and even Acts of Parliament are rare but dedicated
Nestled just south of the Pyrenees, Bodega Otazu is home to its very own ‘Catedral del Vino’, as well as a 2,000-strong collection of contemporary art
A look back at Apollo's commercial pages through the decades reveals shifts in consumer tastes – as well as some distinctly quirky offerings
This magazine’s first home, the Adelphi was both a neoclassical triumph and a financial disaster for ‘Bob the Roman’
Plus: lost Mayan city discovered in Guatemala, and investment company set to buy Artnet and take it private
High fashion meets fine art for the first time in an exhibition at the Paris museum. With so much to see, it‘s hard to know where to look
On 18 June, you can eat in a Twin Peaks’-themed diner, see David Lynch’s art in Prague – and bid on the director's very own coffee machine
The V&A tells the story of how disabled, deaf and neurodivergent people have shaped and inspired modern design over the last 80 years
In Berlin, the Alte Nationalgalerie’s restaging of a 1905 exhibition in Paris shows how both artists were developing their own sculptural languages
Salzburg’s DomQuartier presents portraits by painters who were forced to get more creative after the advent of photography
The artist pairs her paintings of eerily abstracted faces and bodies with archaeological objects from the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens
‘Feel the Sound’ makes imaginative use of the brutalist building to convey the power of sound, but sometimes silence can be just as effective
To commemorate the anniversary of the death of Peter Paul Rubens, who frequently depicted mythological characters, we look at four artworks that bring classical tales to life
The Old Master was hardly alone among his contemporaries in being partial to a glass – or a bottle – of red
The designer was a genius but, as a new film shows, her achievements still have to be untangled from the men who kept getting in her way
Recent denials that the department for culture, media and sport is for the chop don’t address the problem of its glaring lack of purpose
The artist talks to Apollo about how paint can conceal any number of mysteries in a seemingly straightforward portrait
Robert Macfarlane is fascinated by a watery bronze by British sculptor Laurence Edwards
The Met takes the well-trodden story of chinoiserie over the centuries and gives it a welcome feminist twist
The distinctive London cinemas designed by George Coles in the 1930s were like Hawksmoor churches for the celluloid age
Is it time for the Smithsonian pandas to roll over? An agreement with Saudi Arabia means there‘s a new mammalian ambassador in town
Plus: chair of Creative Australia resigns in Venice Biennale controversy | directors of Jewish museum in Washington condemn murder of Israeli embassy staff outside building
In his teeming depiction of animals about to enter the ark, Jan van Kessel put an inventive spin on an original by his grandfather, Jan Brueghel the Elder
