Romain Duris cuts a dash in a lavish French film about the engineer, but it’s the tower that’s the true star
There’s no disguising the gruesomeness of the trade that underpinned the scientific advances of the 18th century
Piranesi may have fallen out with his Irish patron but, in modern-day Dublin, artists inspired by his example are looking to mend fences
Downtime is important for the artist in downtown Los Angeles, who has a figurine from a children’s television show keep watch over their studio
The V&A’s director Tristram Hunt has floated the idea of changing the law to allow national museums to make permanent returns. Robert Hewison advises treading very carefully
Who is the subject of the painter’s cryptically titled ‘Madame C d’A’? Tessa Murdoch looks for clues among his most progressive patrons
Plus: Documenta director resigns in anti-Semitism row, Italian authorities stop Artemisia sale in Vienna and New York DA’s office returns 142 artefacts to Italy
The New York-based artist listens to experimental jazz and audiobooks about physics, and likes to keep her studio floor clean enough for bare feet
The painter’s use of gold in his works suggests a debt to earlier artists – and reveals a more antiquarian side of 15th-century Florence
First a man in a Maserati, then the hurling of a scooter – and now a spat between fashion houses. What on earth has got into everyone?
Art UK’s new catalogue allows us to assess the artistic merits of the nation’s monuments – and to mourn a lost memorial to Percy Bysshe Shelley
The artist’s latest film shows how the past permeates the present in a series of sumptuous scenes – but is it saying anything new?
The painter begins his day by sneaking up on his paintings in an attempt to see them afresh and completes them at night when they’re looking their worst
Stephen Ellcock and Mat Osman try to bring visions of Albion up to date in their book ‘England on Fire’
Many artists have recorded their most intimate moments, but why should anyone else be interested in the results?
As the cost of gas continues to increase across Europe, the Venetian island's glassmakers are fighting to preserve a centuries-old tradition
The British sculptor keeps haunting relics of the colonial era in his London studio – and soothes himself with audiobooks while he works
This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette's breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
An insight into sculpture at this year’s fair, a rediscovered early copy of Austen’s ‘Emma’ and an Italian jeweller’s obsession with Etruria
An outstanding collection of some 900 Japanese cloisonné enamels is among this month’s highlights
An ambitious exhibition at the Beaux-Arts de Paris considers the mutual rivalry between art and science over the centuries
Sophie Barling talks to dealers and artists about the works on show at this year’s Masterpiece London fair
As the eclectic fair returns to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Apollo picks out four highlights
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