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
The saint may have lived a life of poverty, but this richly varied exhibition is anything but impoverished
On the centenary of the artist’s birth, it is easier to see that beneath the impersonal surfaces his work is teeming with life
The artist’s remarkable paintings of women are also a form of self-exposure
The Netherlandish painter is a master of directing viewers to the telling detail
From the ashes of Masterpiece rises an ambitious and even more selective successor
Oliver Messel’s rococo sets for ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ at the Royal Opera House represented a new dawn for dance
The recently appointed director of fairs and exhibition platforms tells Apollo why he is taking a light-touch approach to running the world’s biggest art fair
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly the Albright-Knox, reopens with a strong sense of civic purpose and a firm commitment to modern art
The performance artist explains why he loves being from Iceland and takes us on a tour of public sculpture in his hometown
The painter’s atmospheric restaurant interiors and precise still lifes put him at the top table
Edward Behrens on the finalists for this year’s Loewe Foundation Craft Prize
This richly coloured glass is a window to a key moment in the history of science and of princely patronage, says the Rijksmuseum’s curator Maartje Brattinga
A publicity shoot for ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’ caught the photographer and his subject at an unusually vulnerable moment
The painter went to great lengths to make her careful compositions look effortlessly spontaneous
The Sainsbury Centre’s new director is taking a more touchy-feely approach to displaying the permanent collection
After a period in the doldrums, pieces by the best 18th-century makers are back in demand
The country has been producing wines for centuries, but they are only now getting the global recognition they deserve
Video art makes the running in the art world – but commercially, it has some catching up to do
Larry Silver’s history of how northern European artists depicted other cultures could have taken a broader view
The novelist Louise Welsh is spooked by the Belgian artist’s menacing ‘Great Judge’
The reconstruction of cities devastated by the Second World War took radically different forms, depending on the circumstances
Marco Ferreri’s ode to eating may be one of the most disgusting films about food ever made
A catalogue of the museum’s unrivalled collection of silver and gold is a thing of beauty
