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Installation view of 'Pia Camil: Split Wall', Nottingham Contemporary, 2018.

The strangely familiar world of Pia Camil

The artist’s immersive exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary makes us question our public personas

3 Aug 2018

The mastermind behind the modern art market

A collection of short memoirs about the late Sotheby’s chairman Peter Wilson portrays an enigmatic and highly influential figure

30 Jul 2018

Eight artists’ gardens that are artworks in their own right

Artists have often been inspired by gardens – and some have created outdoor masterpieces of their own

30 Jul 2018
The Yawner (side view; c. 1770–83), Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.

The many faces of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

The distorted Character Heads of the 18th-century sculptor have long perplexed critics

28 Jul 2018
Charles Saumarez Smith
Biyema Byeri reliquary figure (late 19th or early 20th century), Fang Betsi, Moyen-Ogooué, Gabon. Musée d’ethnographie de Genève

Ecstasy and ethnography in Geneva

An exhibition at the MEG urges us to see African religious objects afresh by placing them in contemporary sacred contexts

25 Jul 2018

Apollo recommends arty novels for the summer

Nobody wants to take a coffee table book to the beach, so here’s some fiction about art – picked by Apollo’s editors

23 Jul 2018
Exterior of the Bauhaus school of applied at Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius in 1926, photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images

Rethinking the utopian vision of the Bauhaus

The Bauhaus’s radical designs were meant for the masses, but they were far from affordable

20 Jul 2018

Sacha Baron Cohen sends up the art world (again)

In his new show, What is America?, the comedian foists some pungent art on a gallerist in California. It’s not the first time he’s fooled the art world

20 Jul 2018
The Bridge, (2018) Li Binyuan, installation view at the Yinchuan Biennale.

Artistic strategies on China’s new Silk Road

The second Yinchuan Biennale is part of an official drive to open up the city to international visitors

18 Jul 2018
Blue Water Lilies, Claude Monet

How Monet’s water lilies took root across the pond

The French painter’s late style influenced a generation of American Abstract Expressionists

17 Jul 2018
NSA-Tapped Fiber Optic Cable Landing Site, Keawaula, Hawaii, United States (2016), Trevor Paglen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Trevor Paglen reveals the hidden networks that rule our lives

The artist’s subjects include drones, undersea cables and a sculptural satellite in space

16 Jul 2018
A Group of Churches, designed by Sir J. Soane to illustrate different Styles of Architecture Holy Trinity, Marylebone, St Peter’s, Walworth and the chapel at Tyringham, Buckinghamshire) (detail; c. 1825), Joseph Michael Gandy.

How the church-building boom of the 19th century began

Two hundred years ago, the English parliament passed the Act for Building New Churches, allocating £1m for the task

14 Jul 2018
Crouching Tiger, Delacroix

Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix

A rare look at works on paper by the French Romantic, from watercolours to preparatory sketches

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Mark Wallinger: The Human Figure in Space

The Turner Prize-winning artist responds to Eadweard Muybridge’s early photographs of the body in motion

Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
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View of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries, located in the triforium at Westminster Abbey, London.

‘The space has an otherworldly quality’ – Stuart McKnight on Westminster Abbey

A conversation with Stuart McKnight of MUMA, the architects responsible for the new galleries in the triforium at Westminster Abbey

11 Jul 2018
Bilte, (2008) Tomma Abts, installation view at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, 2018, © 2018 readsreads.info

Tomma Abts’ intriguing paintings contain infinite worlds

In the largest survey of her work so far, the artist explores the tensions between control and chaos

11 Jul 2018
Sorry for suffering – You think I’m a puppy on a picnic? (1990), Lee Bul. Twelve-day performance at Kimpo Airport, Narita Airport, downtown Tokyo and Dokiwaza Theater.

The monstrous bodies of Lee Bul

A survey of the Korean artist’s work reveals a fascination with the fragile boundary between beauty and horror

10 Jul 2018
Stone Alignments/Solstice Cairns (1979), Michelle Stuart.

Stones, scrolls and the mysteries of the universe – an interview with Michelle Stuart

The American artist looks back on half of a century of working in and with the landscape

10 Jul 2018
January, Yellow and Black (1957), Paul Feiler.

The modern mysticism of Paul Feiler

An exhibition in Hastings makes clear the abrupt shift in the St Ives artist’s style of painting

7 Jul 2018
A selection of glazed ceramic buttons (1944–45), Lucie Rie.

The great modern potter who made an art form of buttons

A comprehensive look at the career of Lucie Rie places the spotlight on her handcrafted buttons

6 Jul 2018
Part of a brass choir screen at De Nieuwe Kerke, Amsterdam, cast by unknown brass-founders in c. 1654, after a design by Johannes Lutma, probably in collaboration with Jacob van Campen

The fantastical designs of the Dutch Golden Age

An exhibition at the Rijksmuseum explores the inventive language of the 17th-century auricular style

5 Jul 2018

Acquisitions of the month: June 2018

A major giveaway from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and a Queen Victoria bust are among this month’s top acquisitions

5 Jul 2018
Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon, 1965, (1965) Graham Keen, © Graham Keen

Bacon and Giacometti remain as elusive as ever at the Fondation Beyeler

The Fondation Beyeler ingeniously pairs Bacon and Giacometti in a way that highlights the individuality of both artists

4 Jul 2018