Antoni Gaudí, God’s architect?
Pope Francis has set Catalonia’s architect-in-chief on the path to sainthood, but if the Sagrada Família is anything to go by, we could be in for a long wait
A €37,500 cocktail to leave even a king shaken and stirred
To mark its 260th birthday Baccarat has mixed a €37,000 cocktail, which would make even Louis XV, who granted the crystal-maker its warrant, pause before drinking up
No smoking for David Hockney on the Paris metro
Posters of the artist’s upcoming show have been pulled for featuring a cigarette – but he’s hardly the only painter who’s been partial to a puff
Paddington bears the weight of British identity
The national psychodrama sparked by the destruction of a Paddington Bear statue raises a question: when did we start taking fictional characters so seriously?
Steven Soderbergh works wonders in London
Making Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender look good in ‘Black Bag’ isn’t exactly hard, but making one of the UK’s ugliest buildings look attractive is an act of cinematic sorcery
Manchester United builds a castle in the sky
The club has announced plans to build the biggest football stadium in the world, but can a piece of architecture really solve its ongoing identity crisis?
Is the Uffizi lining up problems for itself?
The Florence museum’s change to its ticketing system may well result in increased waiting times for visitors. But is queuing really such an ordeal?
And the Oscar for best director goes to…
On the eve of this year’s Academy Awards, disappointed nominees in the best director category should take comfort from an unusual set of candles
Art for after the apocalypse
Impressionists and post-Impressionists rule among the paintings in Disney+ series ‘Paradise’, but it’s a Sargent that becomes a talking point
The owl who got his own exhibition
The New York Historical’s display about Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from Central Park Zoo, is a reminder of what freedom looks like and how easily it can be taken away
Victoria Beckham spices up her showroom, with help from Sotheby’s
Posh is showing a raft of contemporary artworks at her London showroom, but will the Richters distract from the beautiful clothes on sale?
The courtly ways of Marianne Faithfull
The late, great singer had noble origins – and the way she negotiated the machinations of Warhol’s Factory would put most courtiers to shame
The other inauguration in Washington, D.C.
After a period of pandalessness and at the end of a momentous week in the nation’s capital, the Smithsonian National Zoo presented two new visitors from China to the public
Pope Francis and the films of Federico Fellini
In his memoir, the Pope praises masterpieces of Italian neorealism by Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini – and defends Fellini with some assistance from Pasolini
The Traitors and the architecture of intrigue
A stone folly at the castle where Claudia Winkleman sniffs out treachery on television puts Apollo’s roving correspondent in mind of other perfect sites for plotting
Magritte’s genius bears fruit once again
As a giant green apple reappears atop the Magritte Museum in Brussels, Rakewell wonders which other artists might benefit from the super-size treatment
Charles Dance, Old Master
Playing Michelangelo in a new BBC docudrama about the artist’s turbulent time in Florence, Dance delivers more than a performance – he channels the divine
The museums with naked ambitions
A series of naturist nights at a museum in Marseille is a salutary reminder that the term ‘art buff’ can have more than one meaning
Art that’s good enough to eat
The $6m acquisition at auction of a Maurizio Cattelan banana has been widely mocked, but perhaps the buyer’s intention to eat his purchase is a noble one
White Cube hangs up its dancing shoes
Hearing that the gallery is no longer hosting its usual bacchanal at Art Basel Miami Beach this year, Rakewell wonders whether White Cube has gone square
How to remember the Great War
North-eastern France contains the largest number of war memorials in the country and a museum in Meaux is making an unusual new contribution
The artists who have found love with unlikely partners
With the news that an artist is set to tie the knot with an interactive hologram, Rakewell wonders whether romance is dead after all
When does rubbish become art?
A feud in Fife involving a single-minded outsider artist and his unhappy neighbour gives Apollo’s roving correspondent cause to reflect
Emmanuel Macron pleads for Emily to stay in Paris
The French president’s wife tests her dramatic chops in the latest season of Emily in Paris, even though the show is now flirting with Rome – and her husband couldn’t be happier
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