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Dystopia lands in London’s Docklands
Lawrence Lek and Kode9 explore sound, architecture and the changing city in their installation at arebyte gallery
Ecstasy and ethnography in Geneva
An exhibition at the MEG urges us to see African religious objects afresh by placing them in contemporary sacred contexts
The mysteries and marvels of Sir Richard Wallace
This summer the Wallace Collection turns the spotlight on its enigmatic namesake
Apollo recommends arty novels for the summer
Nobody wants to take a coffee table book to the beach, so here’s some fiction about art – picked by Apollo’s editors
The Barbican’s photography double bill speaks powerfully to our times
The photographs of Dorothea Lange and Vanessa Winship share a fascination with society in flux
Rethinking the utopian vision of the Bauhaus
The Bauhaus’s radical designs were meant for the masses, but they were far from affordable
The museum pieces that every school kid needs to see
Leading figures pick objects from UK collections that should be seen by every child in the country
A great 16th-century Qur’an gets the attention it deserves
A meticulous study of the Chester Beatty Ruzbihan Qur’an does justice to the ingenuity of its calligrapher
Artistic strategies on China’s new Silk Road
The second Yinchuan Biennale is part of an official drive to open up the city to international visitors
The Wellcome sinks its teeth into the history of dentistry
A fascinating display takes us from the patron saint of toothaches to public health campaigns in the 1940s
The enigmatic visions of Odilon Redon
A new exhibition suggests that Redon’s pictures owe as much to literature and music as they do to the visual arts
How Monet’s water lilies took root across the pond
The French painter’s late style influenced a generation of American Abstract Expressionists
The great West African kingdom that made its mark in gold
An exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art places the powerfully symbolic gold objects of the Asante peoples centre stage
Trevor Paglen reveals the hidden networks that rule our lives
The artist’s subjects include drones, undersea cables and a sculptural satellite in space
How the church-building boom of the 19th century began
Two hundred years ago, the English parliament passed the Act for Building New Churches, allocating £1m for the task
A fresh look at Frida Kahlo
By placing the artist’s possessions next to her portraits, the V&A seeks to reveal the woman behind the icon
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism’ by Whitney Chadwick (Thames & Hudson)
‘Real Detroiters are tired of their city being a symbol’
How the city’s long-term residents are fostering a thriving arts scene
The Apollo podcast: William Kentridge
Thomas Marks talks to William Kentridge about his new performance project, The Head & the Load
‘The space has an otherworldly quality’ – Stuart McKnight on Westminster Abbey
A conversation with Stuart McKnight of MUMA, the architects responsible for the new galleries in the triforium at Westminster Abbey
Tomma Abts’ intriguing paintings contain infinite worlds
In the largest survey of her work so far, the artist explores the tensions between control and chaos
The monstrous bodies of Lee Bul
A survey of the Korean artist’s work reveals a fascination with the fragile boundary between beauty and horror
Stones, scrolls and the mysteries of the universe – an interview with Michelle Stuart
The American artist looks back on half of a century of working in and with the landscape
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The remarkable career of Artemisia Gentileschi
The National Gallery’s acquisition of a work by the painter is welcome – not least because baroque women artists were long neglected