The language we use to describe the sweet course at the end of a meal is more revealing than we think
Photography largely wiped out the trend for miniatures, but the genre still says much about how we relate to images today
Christian Boltanski’s installation at the Museo per la Memoria di Ustica is a stark tribute to the victims of an unsolved tragedy
More and more artists are partnering with online platforms to sell limited editions of their work – and it’s paying off handsomely, for now
An insider account by a former head of Sotheby’s in the UK recounts how London’s post-war art market took off in the 1950s and has kept on reinventing itself
As his 24-hour film The Clock returns to MoMA, Christian Marclay talks about working with sound and images – and bridging the divide between the two artistic worlds
The ideas and images of the artists who unleashed their unconscious on the world a century ago are now part of the fabric of everyday life
The architect’s pioneering modernist buildings have outlasted critics and changing trends, as a monumental new biography makes clear
For its 27th edition, the fair is setting up shop in the galleries of London’s auction houses and welcoming a number of new exhibitors
Recent results for the London auctions may be a sign that things aren’t all doom and gloom
Artists from Helen Frankenthaler to Marlene Dumas have poured and splattered paint on to their canvases with a sense of enviable abandon
Château Smith Haut Lafitte is a vineyard sprinkled with the sensibility of an English country garden
From explosions of chintz to thrusting postmodern architecture, the sets for Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster leave us in no doubt we’re watching a 1980s period drama
The Museum of West African Art points to a new path for creating an institution from scratch and more imaginative ways of dealing with the colonial past
A regular haunt of artists, dealers and curators, Sally Clarke’s restaurant in Kensington has been a beacon of unfussy excellence for 40 years
Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines turned their backs on the London art world to create an art school with an outsize legacy
New York-based collectors Domenico Lanzara and Sean Imfeld speak to Apollo about their obsession with Old Master drawings
The artist has pursued her interest in light, motion and myth across drawing, sculpture and performance for six decades, but it's her openness to new ideas that really defines her work
It suits us to think of the movement as unpopular, but the passing of time makes it harder to see why the first Impressionist Exhibition of 1874 made such a stir
The French artist was largely ignored by his peers, but his uncanny painting of a snake is a masterpiece
The much-anticipated fair returns to Paris for ‘a second inaugural edition’ with a whole new section and a greater emphasis on public programming
The German painter died tragically young, but in the course of her short life she became the artist she always wanted to be
The museum is set to close in 2025, leaving a hole in the city’s arts scene and adding to growing disquiet about its general direction
The sculptor’s witty animal-like sculptures are dotted around the grounds of his house in the Cotswolds – and they feel right at home there
