The Royal Academy of Arts reveals how carefully conceived even the most cartoonish of the artist’s paintings really are
The Viennese artist captured the grandeur of Austria’s landscapes, from river deep to mountain high
On its first birthday, Trondheim’s newest museum hits its stride with a very respectable Louise Bourgeois exhibition
At TM Gallery in London, the curator and owner of CLOSE Gallery in Somerset talked to Apollo about the Gilbert Bayes Award for early-career sculptors
A masterpiece of medieval German sculpture and a portrait by Joshua Reynolds are among the most important works to have entered public collections recently
To mark 150 years since the birth of Constantin Brâncuși, we look at four artworks that take wing in very different ways
László Hudec’s striking contributions to the skyline added Hungarian modernism to the influences that made the interwar city such a cosmopolitan hub
It’s been a big month for the artist, with a new record set at auction and the National Gallery of Art acquiring an ecstatic Mary Magdalene. And her stock seems set to rise even higher
After half a century, two shows bring into focus an artist we should have been watching all along
There’s plenty of artistry on display at the Winter Olympics, but the showmanship of the opening ceremony was an art historical delight
Plus: Plans for Centre Pompidou’s New Jersey outpost scrapped; and French police arrest nine people suspected of Louvre ticket-fraud scheme
Devotion, in its many different senses, has always been at the heart of the artist’s work
Patrons sometimes spent more on the cases of these small marvels than on the paintings themselves – and this exhibition suggests it was worth every penny
The Danish painter’s eerie interiors are joined by portraits, landscapes and depictions of musicians
This exhibition in Brussels reveals how Renaissance artists tried to capture the full range of human physiognomy – sometimes in a single painting
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs recreates the sights, sounds and smells of a wealthy family’s domestic life in pre-Revolutionary Paris
At the winter Old Master sales in the Big Apple last week, a tiny study for the Sistine Chapel and a handsome lion sketch by Rembrandt stole the limelight
When the complex was first proposed in the late 1950s, it was intended as a concrete expression of US soft power and its designer, Edward Durell Stone, was one of the most in-demand architects in the United States
To coincide with World Radio Day, we look at four artworks from the last 100 years that address the medium’s power and resilience
Plans for a widely opposed redevelopment of London Liverpool Street have been approved – why, when there is a better, less costly alternative?
After years of being profoundly unfashionable, one of the most important British figurative painters of the 20th century is ripe for reappraisal
In his Norfolk studio, the artist enjoys a refreshing sense of solitude after years spent in the close confines of London
An exhibition in Wiesbaden makes clear why the Austrian painter made such a splash in the United States in the late 1950s
An exhibition at Pallant House Gallery makes clear how serious the British artist was and how seriously underrated he has been
