Gold Icon The very smart cars of Ettore Bugatti

With its sensuous design and sleek fittings, the Bugatti 57C Vanvooren – like many of the manufacturer’s models – has become a style icon

31 Mar 2025

Trump issues executive order to remove ‘improper ideology’ from Smithsonian

Plus: Looting at Sudan’s National Museum | South Korean heritage sites threatened by country’s worst wildfires | Christophe Cherix appointed next director of MoMA | and more

30 Mar 2025

Picasso, Miró, Léger and the Many Voices of Modernism

An exhibition in Denmark presents lesser-known modernists alongside the usual 20th-century titans

28 Mar 2025

Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots

The largest survey of the Arte Povera artist in the UK encourages us to think differently about the boundary between art and nature

28 Mar 2025

Discovering Dürer

Though most celebrated for his woodcut prints, Albrecht Dürer was also a master engraver, as this free exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum makes clear

28 Mar 2025

Ruth Asawa: Retrospective

A major survey of Asawa’s work in San Francisco covers six-decades and reminds us that there was more to her work than wire sculptures

28 Mar 2025

Four things to see: Royal patronage

The 400th anniversary of Charles I’s ascent to the throne is a reminder that rulers, from the Medicis to the Mughal emperors, have long patronised artists

28 Mar 2025

Acquisitions of the month: February 2025

Eastern icons for the Louvre and French Old Masters for the Art Institute of Chicago are among the most important works to have entered public collections recently

26 Mar 2025

Gold Icon Tracey Emin’s passion for painting

In a powerful painting acquired by the Yale Center for British Art, the artist grapples with universal themes of love and loss, explains the museum’s director, Martina Droth

26 Mar 2025

British Library’s £1.1bn extension goes ahead, backed by Japanese developer

The British Library can now go ahead with a huge £1.1bn expansion after the Japanese real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan…

23 Mar 2025

J.M.W. Turner: Romance and Reality

In this show marking 250 years since the artist’s birth, the Yale Center for British Art reflects on how the painter balanced realism with expressiveness

21 Mar 2025

Pietro Maria Bardi Building, MASP

One of the most important art museums in South America unveils its brand new building this week, which doubles its exhibition space

21 Mar 2025

José María Velasco: A View of Mexico

The 19th-century painter’s landscapes captured the beauty of the Valley of Mexico as well as the growth of industrial production

21 Mar 2025

Jack Whitten: The Messenger

The late American artist’s vast abstract canvases, acrylic mosaics and sculptures inspired by Black history go on display at MoMA

21 Mar 2025

Four things to see: Television

This week marks 100 years since John Logie Baird demonstrated the first television; we explore four works that make the most out of this now-ubiquitous medium

21 Mar 2025

How can tech help win the battle against art crime? – a talk at TEFAF Maastricht

Apollo editor Edward Behrens chairs a panel discussion at TEFAF Maastricht on how technology can be used in the fight against art fraud

20 Mar 2025

Tate cuts 40 roles and runs budget deficit

Plus: chair of National Endowment for the Humanities steps down after presidential pressure and far-right Greek MP arrested after allegedly vandalising art in National Gallery

14 Mar 2025

Tous Léger!

Works by Fernand Léger and the artists he influenced form the basis of a riotously colourful show in Luxembourg

14 Mar 2025

Jenny Saville: Gaze

The Albertina puts the British artist’s debt to Old Masters and Christian iconography in the spotlight

14 Mar 2025

Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art

The American painter’s wit is on display in this retrospective in San Francisco, which includes several copies of works by his favourite artists

14 Mar 2025

Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo

In private, the French writer was a skilled draughtsman of Gothic castles and fantastical creatures

14 Mar 2025

Four things to see: Circles

On Pi Day, the annual celebration of the ever-fascinating mathematical constant, we round up four artworks that make the most out of the humble circle

14 Mar 2025

Architect Ricardo Scofidio dies at the age of 89

Plus: Bernd Ebert appointed director of the Dresden State Paintings Collections and long-lost Brueghel found in Dutch museum

7 Mar 2025

100 Ideas of Happiness: Art Treasures from Korea

Earthenware, gold jewellery, stone carvings and other gems from Korea reign supreme at the Royal Palace in Dresden

7 Mar 2025