Korean art scans new horizons in London

Musical displays, immersive experiences and a series of talks celebrate the country’s rich cultural heritage and appetite for innovation

8 May 2025

Acquisitions of the month: April 2025

A view of Christ’s entombment by Maarten van Heemskerck and a Joan Mitchell triptych are among the most significant museum acquisitions of last month

7 May 2025

The shows to see in and around New York this month

With hundreds of exhibitions and events vying for attention in the city during Frieze and TEFAF, Apollo’s editors pick out the shows not to miss

6 May 2025

Ari Emanuel buys Frieze from Endeavor

Plus: the video artist Dara Birnbaum has died; and the journalist Wolfram Weimer will be Germany’s next minister for culture

2 May 2025

Huma Bhabha: Encounters – Giacometti

At the Barbican, imperious, often monumental statues by Huma Bhabha are paired with the figures of Alberto Giacometti to unsettling effect

2 May 2025

The Angel of History

In Berlin, a delicate watercolour by Paul Klee is the focus of a display exploring what the work meant to Walter Benjamin

2 May 2025

Superfine: Tailoring Black Style

This show at the Met celebrates more than two centuries of Black apparel – and remembers the hardships endured by even the nattiest of dressers

2 May 2025

Spiegel im Spiegel

Work by Gerhard Richter and a soundscape by Arvo Pärt are accompanied by more than 700 years of German and Estonian art

2 May 2025

In the studio with… Florence Houston

When painting her gelatinous desserts, the artist is surrounded by jelly moulds, jellies and even a mummified mouse for company

30 Apr 2025

MFA Boston returns Benin Bronzes to donor opposed to restitution

Plus: the Art Institute of Chicago has been ordered to surrender an Egon Schiele work; and Guy Ullens, a major collector of contemporary Chinese art, has died

25 Apr 2025

Rosa Barba: The Ocean of One’s Pause

Covering the past 15 years of the artist’s career, this show unites film with kinetic sculpture and live performance to explore the power of light and sound

25 Apr 2025

Sargent and Paris

A chance to see some 100 paintings, drawings and watercolours John Singer Sargent made during his formative years in France – including the infamous ‘Madame X’

25 Apr 2025

Do Ho Suh: Walk the House

Home is where the heart is for Do Ho Suh, whose large-scale sculptures, installations, drawings and videos are on display in a major survey at Tate Modern

25 Apr 2025

Gold Icon The curious career of Jan van Kessel

In his teeming depiction of animals going in two by two, Jan van Kessel put an inventive spin on an original by his grandfather, Jan Brueghel the Elder

25 Apr 2025

Out of focus, another vision of art from 1945 to the present day

Blurry effects have served all kinds of artists very well over the years, as this show at the Musée de l’Orangerie makes clear

25 Apr 2025

Acquisitions of the month: March 2025

A deathly still life by Maria van Oosterwijck and a huge trove of artefacts from Roman Britain are among this month’s highlights

24 Apr 2025

Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction

Some 150 works by such luminaries as Ed Rossbach, Yayoi Kusama and Ruth Asawa put a different spin on the history of abstract art

19 Apr 2025

Remnants

Fifteen works of art depicting Apartheid-era South Africa in photography, prints and a painting go on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Art

19 Apr 2025

Edi Hila | Thea Djordjadze

Paintings by one of the great chroniclers of communist and post-Soviet Albania are displayed alongside site-specific works by the younger, Georgian artist Thea Djordjazde

19 Apr 2025

The World of King James VI and I

The National Galleries of Scotland pull out all the stops in exploring the life and times of the Stuart king

19 Apr 2025

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

19 Apr 2025

National Endowment for the Humanities funds intended for Trump sculpture park

Plus: the global value of art sales has fallen by 12 per cent, and Pierre Terjanian will be the next director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

13 Apr 2025

Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers

Filling the rotunda of the Guggenheim in New York, this survey of the protean American artist captures his verve, bite and intellectual range

11 Apr 2025

Tarō Okamoto: Reinventing Japan

One of the most distinctive Japanese artists of the 20th century gets a survey in Paris, the city that shaped his art and worldview in the 1930s

11 Apr 2025