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
Plans for a widely opposed redevelopment of London Liverpool Street have been approved – why, when there is a better, less costly alternative?
While there’s plenty to enjoy in Dan Cruickshank’s new history of the English house, which goes up to 1926, it’s clear that the author feels most at home in the 18th century
Best known for her 1951 novel ‘Memoirs of Hadrian’, the writer also applied her gift for summoning the past to essays on Dürer, Michelangelo, Piranesi et al.
An uncanny automaton by the Czech artist Jan Žalud is testament to the forces that shaped the city in the 20th century
Plus: the White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts; and a US climate protestor has been sentenced to 18 months in prison
Heist films are the most glamorous kind of crime film – and art heists make for the most glamorous kind of heist film
Many of the 81-year-old photographer’s images were made when even taking a camera to the streets was an act of resistance in Chile
The artist soups up family photos with found imagery at the Heide Museum of Modern Art
The Peabody Essex Museum gives viewers a glimpse of the wonders of the icy woodlands around the Arctic circle
Some 200 works by the sculptor, photographer and land artist make up this sprawling exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy
Artists throughout history have shown that this seemingly straightforward genre can be remarkably flexible
The French painter was unusual among his Impressionist peers for preferring to depict men at work and at play
With summer in full swing, Apollo rounds up some notable examples of art on the beach, from Barcelona to Venice Beach
Plus: archaeologists uncover a 3,500-year-old city in Peru; and Wael Shawky will be the first artist to curate an Art Basel fair
Since the Industrial Revolution, artists have envisioned a world in which work is more about job satisfaction than exploitation
The Australian artist gets a sweeping retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
A chance to see work by one of the leading exponents of the Mono-ha movement at Dia Beacon
The painter and printmaker bridged Impressionism and Expressionism, as this exhibition at the Alte Nationalgalerie makes clear
This exhibition at the Met shows how the big city transformed the art of this undersung Abstract Expressionist
The painter’s biblical, classical and allegorical scenes were at once sumptuous flights of fancy and firmly rooted in the material world of Renaissance Venice
A Dutch family archive and a rare marble by Giambologna are among the most significant works to enter public collections in the past month
Plus: Blum is closing its galleries in Los Angeles and Tokyo; and Heather Gerken will be the Ford Foundation’s next president
With the Bank of England crowdsourcing ideas for its next series of banknotes, Rakewell hopes his art-related suggestions will be on the money
