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Can Helsinki’s modern architecture grow old gracefully?
Finland’s questing version of modernism, as championed by Alvar Aalto, went hand in hand with the development of social democracy
Gertrude Jekyll and the making of Munstead Wood
The first garden created by the designer for a house by Edwin Lutyens has been bought by the National Trust – preserving a vital piece of history
Around the galleries – British Art Fair welcomes a fresh crop of collectors
Under new owners, this stalwart of the London fair calendar shows that a focus on British art needn’t be parochial
The Scottish artist who could paint up a storm
From the September 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. I first encountered William McTaggart’s The Storm (1890) when…
How to manage a museum
A book by Daniel H. Weiss, outgoing president and CEO of the Met, offers a public-spirited view of how a changing world can benefit from the constancy of large institutions
The painters who have made the most of poor visibility
As a book about mist and fog in European painting shows, artists have often taken a very hazy view of the landscape
Genteel flats for genteel people
The mansion block has often reconciled Londoners who can’t afford actual mansions to the realities of apartment-living
The historic naval church that is in shipshape condition again
The former Dockyard Church in Sheerness has been sensitively restored and converted into a community hub
Collective effort – the social sculptures of Simone Leigh
The sculptor is deeply connected to a wider network of artists and thinkers who also get their dues in this large-scale survey
How X. Marcel Boulestin catered to the masses
The restaurateur and writer won over both the smart set and the middle classes – and was a hero to Elizabeth David
The Victorian bookcase that contains a whole cultural world
William Burges commissioned a singular piece of furniture with contributions from everyone who was anyone among his wide artistic acquaintance
Drinking in style with the ancient Greeks and Persians
The ancient Greeks were quick to adopt the decadent drinking culture of their Persian enemies
The young gallerists reinvigorating London’s art scene
A wave of emerging galleries is breaking across the capital despite difficult economic conditions
A sculpture given to Captain Cook returns to Tahiti
The figures brought over in 1771 are the first documented works of Oceanic art – and now on display where they were made
Inside a very forward-looking home in Rome
At Casa Balla, Futurism was definitely a family affair for Giacomo Balla and his daughters Lucia and Elice
The Met simplifies Cecily Brown
Linking the painter’s work directly to its source material downplays what makes it really interesting
Classical African sculpture keeps moving with the times
Provenance is more crucial than ever but the market for masterpieces is now broader than ever
Around the galleries – the Armory Show is still a force to be reckoned with
At a time when art fairs around the world are scaling back, the New York mainstay is still thinking big
The Parrish Art Museum is courting the real Hamptons crowd
On the institution’s 125th anniversary, its director Mónica Ramírez-Montagut wants to serve a wider audience and make stronger connections with the local community
Saint Francis, pure and simple
The saint may have lived a life of poverty, but this richly varied exhibition is anything but impoverished
The unwavering art of Ellsworth Kelly
On the centenary of the artist’s birth, it is easier to see that beneath the impersonal surfaces his work is teeming with life
Gwen John bares it all at Pallant House
The artist’s remarkable paintings of women are also a form of self-exposure
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When outsider art entered the mainstream
A string of recent exhibitions have done much to raise the profile of so-called outsider artists