This magazine’s first home, the Adelphi was both a neoclassical triumph and a financial disaster for ‘Bob the Roman’
Now in its third year, the London fair blends fine art with a festival atmosphere that suits the season
With a slew of new projects and major government investment, the Emirati art scene is having a moment. This time, it looks set to last
Collectors of ceramics marking great battles, royal weddings and even Acts of Parliament are rare but dedicated
The idealised nude figure has an unshakeable place in art history, but artists have also turned their gaze to their own imperfect bodies
As the magazine marks its centenary, its belief in being curious about both the past and present – and in the power of art – is more important than ever
In Paris, the American writer and her siblings were early patrons of the likes of Matisse and Picasso, making their Left Bank apartment a magnet for art lovers
In her depictions of the human form, the artist pushes paint to its limits, explains Sarah Howgate of the National Portrait Gallery in London
The Duke of Richmond has been filling the grounds of his Sussex estate with sculpture, and the results are a breath of fresh air
The Virgin Queen was not known for her cookery skills, so why was she often painted holding a sieve?
The museum’s refurbished galleries of art from Africa, Oceania and the Americas now have the prominence they deserve
The artist mixed making abstract sculpture with populist public commissions. As her reputation soars, her generosity of spirit is as apparent as her inventiveness
A personal tally of finding the magazine’s readers in films, television and fiction – and among the Rolling Stones
Depictions of Christ’s ascent to heaven often manage to be both deadly serious and upliftingly silly
The French artist believed in his paintings being stylistically uniform and infinitely replicable – an idea that, a century on, has not done him any favours
Though museums use them to provide more information, QR codes can conceal as much as they reveal
Nestled just south of the Pyrenees, Bodega Otazu is home to its very own ‘Catedral del Vino’, as well as a 2,000-strong collection of contemporary art
A look back at Apollo's commercial pages through the decades reveals shifts in consumer tastes – as well as some distinctly quirky offerings
In this stylish polemic, the artist Hito Steyerl casts AI image-making as bland at best and exploitative at worst
Hiroshige’s playful prints conjure the landscapes of 19th-century Japan in jewel-like tones
Housed in Louis Kahn’s last building, the newly spruced-up Yale Center for British Art reframes Paul Mellon’s collection
Revisiting a meeting of the two Surrealists in Paris in 1939 sheds new light on the movement as a whole
One of history’s most mysterious political paintings might hold lessons for our own time – if we could make out the meaning
It was the painter’s misfortune to be surrounded by writers whose accounts of her have been too dominant for too long