The Virgin Queen was not known for her cookery skills, so why was she often painted holding a sieve?
Chardin’s luscious still life of fruit and Guercino’s commanding King David are among last month’s most significant museum acquisitions
To celebrate World Oceans Day, we dive into four artworks that celebrate the blue planet’s beauty, biodiversity and bottomless capacity for artistic inspiration
Housed in Louis Kahn’s last building, the newly spruced-up Yale Center for British Art reframes Paul Mellon’s collection
The modernist potter was one of a handful of British ceramicists who pushed clay to its expressive limits
With parents who had been notable collectors, the émigré art historian knew the work of many of his subjects intimately
Revisiting a meeting of the two Surrealists in Paris in 1939 sheds new light on the movement as a whole
The museum’s refurbished galleries of art from Africa, Oceania and the Americas now have the prominence they deserve
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
‘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 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
This year’s festival is the largest edition yet, but a display of outsize ambition doesn’t resolve its internal contradictions
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
