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
Printing is found throughout art history – and often in the places you least expect it, as Jennifer L. Roberts demonstrates in her highly original new book
Curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev explains how the artist’s Venus of the Rags embodies the innovative spirit of the Italian movement
The art world is changing fast, but fostering a new generation of young collectors remains a challenge for the market to overcome
Amid a narrowing market for Old Masters, paintings from 17th-century Naples are still holding their own
At its peak, the Mughal empire brought together scholars and artists of different languages and faiths to create art fit for kings
The learned institution has always been important to art historians, but a major new refurbishment will give it a higher profile
Berthe Weill was as devoted to young artists as she was to the cause of modern art – and her efforts are now receiving belated recognition
The Homo Faber art fair featured a bounty of contemporary crafts, but were the finer details in danger of getting lost with so much on display?
An exhibition of photographs, posters and protest objects shows the absurd side of the Cold War as well as the terror
