This year’s festival is the largest edition yet, but a display of outsize ambition doesn’t resolve its internal contradictions
The Frist Museum considers the mercantile republic as a melting pot, where foreign fashions, customs and food were readily absorbed
The Morgan Library shows that, although she didn’t own a camera until she was 48, Cameron nudged photography into the realm of fine art
The Prado’s survey of one of the great painters of 16th-century Venice also considers his influences – and the artists he influenced in turn
Even as the military dictatorship repressed civil society in the 1960s, artists resisted the pressure to conform
The sculptor prefers not to have visitors in her sunlit studio in Brooklyn, where she tests materials and rereads books that have influenced her
The Singaporean playwright talks to Apollo about dramatising the return of a fictional statue from the British Museum to China
Long overshadowed by art from the post-war period, the work of the preceding generation is attracting interest again
The artist modelled for Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and others, but her own sitters were afforded much more agency
The 19th-century painter’s views of the Valley of Mexico are at once scientific documents and odes to a landscape in flux
The artist talks to Apollo about his latest paintings, which are filling in for two works by the Old Master in San Giorgio Maggiore
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With the beloved Long Island store BookHampton bought up by the super gallerist, will the summer crowd’s reading material take an artier turn?
Artists’ books come in all shapes, sizes and unusual formats, as this exhibition at the Warburg Institute makes clear
The British Museum presents artefacts of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism and explores how all three faiths changed over centuries
The biophysicist Arthur Solomon built up a formidable art collection that is now on display in Cambridge
Though best known for her moveable sculptures and performance pieces, the Brazilian artist covered a lot of artistic ground
In MoMA’s mammoth survey, the abstract painter’s desire to question everything comes across loud and clear
As her largest museum show to date opens, the Scottish artist talks to Samuel Reilly about her tender paintings of women at work
Luma Arles celebrates E.A.T., an alliance of artists and engineers who created some of the most thrillingly eccentric artworks of the mid 20th century
Dimitris Pikionis’s work around the ancient monument is one of the most enduring contributions to 20th-century architecture – and one of the most self-effacing
Inger Christensen’s reissued take on the artist’s time at the Gonzaga court is as experimental as his work would have seemed to contemporaries
The shortlisted designs for a memorial to the late monarch in St James’s Park have been announced – but can any of them be complete without a corgi?
The first president of the Third Republic was a divisive figure, but there’s no arguing with his taste in chinoiserie
