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Baroque Brilliance: Drawings and Prints by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
The Kunsthaus Zürich takes a close look at the Genoese virtuoso’s fluent draughtsmanship and innovative prints
The week in art news – Lawrence Weiner (1942–2021)
The pioneering conceptual artist, Lawrence Weiner, has died at the age of 79. Born in the Bronx in 1942, Weiner…
The culture ministers who really are culture vultures
Delighted by the fact that the new German culture minister once managed a rock band, Rakewell recalls other culture ministers with an artistic bent
Getting real with Richard Estes
The painter is generally regarded as a Photorealist but, as he tells Apollo, he prefers to see himself as part of the long tradition of view painting
The week in art news – Austrian museums close in national lockdown
Plus: The new German culture minister is Claudia Roth of the Greens, and a Roman villa complex has been uncovered in Rutland
Altered estates – the English country houses that boomed in the post-war period
Adrian Tinniswood’s new book focuses on the aristocrats and rock stars who secured the futures of the houses they owned – or moved into
Performance anxiety – Paul McCarthy makes his audience incredibly uneasy
The artist’s first performance in a decade was a lot, even for the most ‘open-minded’ onlookers
Cindy Sherman confirms that working from home can be murder
In what now seems like a warning from history, the artist’s only feature film is about a magazine editor who is forced to work at home
The restorers who took a creative approach to Renaissance paintings
A new study assesses 19th-century interventions on paintings by Giotto and other masters, and their impact on art history
In Oslo, the mammoth new Munch museum is a surprisingly joyful affair
The vast waterfront complex is a fitting emblem of the painter’s outsized importance to the city
The artists who wanted to rise above it all
The Transcendental Painting Group in New Mexico was sidelined for its esoteric beliefs, but its members are slowly entering the mainstream
The museum that introduced America to modern art
As the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. celebrates its centenary, the museum is also looking firmly to the future
The Tudor art lurking behind our wallpaper
A carved-wood falcon linked to Anne Boleyn and wall paintings in Hertfordshire and Yorkshire are exciting discoveries for our understanding of Tudor England
Ruff and ready – how Frans Hals made his portraits crackle with life
The Dutch painter already knew the majority of the sitters in his lively portraits of merchants and dignitaries – and it shows
Etel Adnan (1925–2021)
In 2018, the Lebanese–American painter and poet talked to Apollo about her love of California and the difference between her painting and writing
‘I have to fight for the corner of film’ – an interview with Tacita Dean
The British artist has consistently used film as a means of making a statement about painting. But now her chosen medium is urgently in need of saving
Exhibition of the Year
Alice Neel: People Come First Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 22 March–1 August In around 100 paintings, drawings and…
Book of the Year
A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture, 1540–1640 Mark Girouard Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The eminent architectural…
My Cultural City – the magic of Bern and Thun, with Nina Zimmer
The director of the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Zentrum Paul Klee picks out her highlights in two of Switzerland’s most charming cities
The billboards that are turning Venice into an eyesore
Luxury brands are certainly contributing to the conservation of Venice – but massive advertisements on historic buildings are starting to spoil the views
The week in art news – Smithsonian Museum of African Art commits to restituting Benin Bronzes
Plus: Humboldt Forum to remove medallion honouring donor with far-right views, and more stories
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