By exhibiting Two Figures in the Grass the artist succeeded in attracting the controversy he was almost certainly courting
Paying hundreds of pounds for a dessert may seem excessive, but we wouldn’t think it an unreasonable price for a work of art
Ahead of his Tate Britain commission, the artist tells Apollo about being inspired by Tupac and Cy Twombly and wanting to involve communities in everything he makes
Blake, Constable and Ivon Hitchens all feature in Alexandra Harris’s account of a place she knows well, but it’s the more obscure figures who really shine
The Met’s return of a bronze statue to Thailand and the reaction in Cambodia shows the difficulty of recovering the origins of looted objects
The ancient Scottish relic makes for a captivating moment of theatre, but the rest of the displays are just as artfully done
Seeing art is often a purely visual experience, but we shouldn't be afraid of exploring our other senses in the gallery
An exhibition at the Soane Museum shows that technical drawings of buildings are often more complex than they may seem
Cultural institutions are increasingly cutting ties with fossil fuel sponsors, but art and oil have long been intertwined in surprising ways
In the late 1790s, modern women looking for new forms of freedom were often inspired by distant and mythical histories
In its telling of the story of the Mingei movement, the William Morris Gallery takes a refreshingly international approach
The museum is founded on the collection of John Julius Angerstein and, 200 years later, the banker’s taste is still making itself felt
The wares on offer at the event this month are enough to bowl over any ceramics aficionado
If sales so far this year are anything to go by, the high-profile auctions taking place this month may not bring much excitement
Wine has been part of the lifeblood of Crete since the Bronze Age – and one grower in particular is reaching back thousands of years for inspiration
It seems as if arts criticism is becoming a treat for political journalists – but perhaps the job should be treated a little more seriously
In the first half of the 15th century, artists drew on the Northern and Italian Renaissances to create a distinctly French cultural flowering
An exhibition in Venice of the French artist’s work is conceptually dense, but does it work in visual terms?
This year’s laudably international line-up gives plenty of space to photography, performance and video
The pop artist believed that artists should make work for the masses. Decades after his death, his images are everywhere
Part biographical survey, part crash-course in Lacanian thought, an exhibition about the psychoanalyst’s links to art could do with a sharper focus
Maarten van Heemskerck’s expert renderings of Rome inspired his countrymen to see the city for themselves
The artist’s vast body of work is full of daring conceits and tantalising contradictions
The writer’s survey of interwar architecture is a monumental achievement that reminds us that modernism was only part of the 20th-century story
