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
The rest of the city still has plenty to offer, from an exploration of the travels of Marco Polo to a celebration of Jean Cocteau’s genius
At the age of 65, the artist went to Rome a painter and returned to the United States a sculptor. It wasn’t the first time the city had changed him
The Norwegian painter was referring to Ibsen’s play 'Ghosts' when he painted his dream-like landscape of 1906
Despite the painstaking research that underpins the artist’s work, there’s nothing dry about its outcomes – as visitors to the Canadian Pavilion in Venice will discover
The Venice Biennale is a good time to pull back the curtain on the funding of major arts events, which can often be shrouded in mystery
The director of the 2024 Biennale talks to Apollo about the challenges the event faces and why he is sanguine about the changing political tides
The artists may have spoken about voids and infinities, but the market for their work has stayed satisfyingly solid
Artists over the centuries have often depicted women as mothers, but where are all the deadbeat dads?
At the art fair’s first edition under new ownership medieval manuscripts can be found alongside contemporary offerings
Do digital techniques to enliven familiar paintings help or hinder our understanding of the art at hand?
A new life of the auteur lays bare the obsessiveness behind his films and what it cost everyone around him
There’s no doubt that the painter was an important and intriguing artist, but that doesn't excuse his behaviour
The artist’s irrepressible energy shines out in this survey of her long career at Bard Graduate Center, writes Eve M. Kahn
A rustic painting by Annibale Carracci highlights how the act of eating in art has long been tied to class and status
Books and manuscripts, 18th-century furniture and Old Master drawings are driving a thriving art market in France
Artists may distrust intermediaries but it would be more difficult for anyone to get noticed in the art world without them
