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Rakewell: Apollo's roving eye on the art world

The art world protests against Trump, in its own special way…

From Cindy Sherman to the Femen movement to Richard Prince, artists have been taking aim at Trump ahead of his inauguration

19 Jan 2017
Charles III (detail; 1786–87), Francisco de Goya y Lucientes.

The light and shade of Charles III of Spain

Three shows in Madrid bring out the contradictions of Charles III, an enlightened ruler who could not resist the trappings of monarchy

18 Jan 2017

‘I used to think art could change the world’

Ahead of a retrospective across three UK venues, Lubaina Himid discusses how black British art has evolved over the past three decades

17 Jan 2017
Meat Porters, (1959), Ralph Brown

Private collections may be a good thing for public institutions

In a time of increased uncertainty for public art institutions, museums are reevaluting their relationships with private collectors

16 Jan 2017

Puppet master: an interview with Wael Shawky

The Egyptian artist Wael Shawky talks to Apollo about his animated versions of the Crusades

14 Jan 2017

Paul Nash’s commitment to the English landscape

The artist’s feeling for place is a constant throughout his work – in both peacetime and war

13 Jan 2017

Tristram Hunt: Why the British Ceramics Biennial belongs in Stoke

The Staffordshire Potteries continue to play a leading role in developing the UK’s ceramics industry

13 Jan 2017
Zerstörung einer Illusion (1977), Karin Mack. © Karin Mack / DACS, London, 2016 / The SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna

A fierce reminder of why we need feminism more than ever today

The Photographers’ Gallery has put together an exhibition of feminist art from the 1970s which is still worryingly relevant today

11 Jan 2017
Installation view, showing Volute IV and Volute V by Paul de Monchaux, at Megan Piper, London, 2016

Art and humanity in the work of Paul de Monchaux

The sculptor discusses abstraction, music, architecture, carving kerb stones, and the ‘common enterprise’ at the heart of it all

9 Jan 2017
'Hahn/Cock' (2013), Katharina Fritsch, installed in on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2013.

Year of the Rooster, art of the poultry yard

Joana Vasconcelos has sent a cockerel sculpture to Beijing for Chinese New Year. She’s only the latest artist to have a thing for chickens

6 Jan 2017
Bernardo Bembo, Statesman and Ambassador of Venice

Flemish portraits, science fiction, and an avant-garde centenary

Antwerp’s Old Master treasures are on tour, while the Barbican is staging a sprawling but ambitious science fiction exhibition

5 Jan 2017
Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller at home in Geneva.

Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller (1930–2016)

Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, the leading tribal art collector and international museum patron, has died at the age of 86

4 Jan 2017
Pays Inconnu (2016), Vivienne Koorland. Courtesy the artist

William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland peel back the layers of history

The two artists make a rewarding double act at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery

4 Jan 2017

Dutch prints, De Stijl, and David Hockney

Hercules Segers heads for the USA, Giacometti goes to Doha, David Hockney turns 80 in style, and more

4 Jan 2017
National Gallery of Ireland

The National Gallery of Ireland is finally to reopen

It’s been a long wait indeed, but the gallery’s refurbishment is nearing completion, and there’s a good line-up of temporary exhibitions, too

3 Jan 2017
Guercino at Master Drawings New York 2017

A tour around January’s art fair highlights

From British modern art, to antique rugs and Old Master drawings, there’s something for everyone on the art fair circuit this month

2 Jan 2017
Flags I, (1973), Jasper Johns.

The American Dream and the October Revolution

American art at the British Museum; Chris Ofili’s first tapestry; Shakespeare’s Malvolio transformed, and more

2 Jan 2017

Black British art, Merce Cunningham’s collaborations, and Lygia Pape in the USA

A number of UK shows are celebrating black British art, and large-scale exhibitions of Merce Cunningham and Lygia Pape are planned in the US

30 Dec 2016
Infinity Mirrored Room - Gleaming Lights of the Souls, (2008), Yayoi Kusama.

Yayoi Kusama heads to Singapore, while Southeast Asian art travels the globe

There are some excellent exhibitions of Southeast Asian art in the pipeline. Here are the best, alongside other global art highlights

29 Dec 2016
Jagdish Mittal, founder of the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art, Hyderabad

One man’s lifelong devotion to Indian art

Jagdish Mittal, who has amassed one of the world’s finest collections of Indian art, discusses his dedication to art and instinctive approach to collecting

27 Dec 2016
Zaha Hadid, Installation view, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (8 December 2016–12 February 2017) © Zaha Hadid Foundation. Image © 2016 Hugo Glendinning

Legends in London: Zaha Hadid and Robert Rauschenberg

A look around some of London’s most talked-about winter exhibitions

23 Dec 2016

How life goes on in a ruined Roman palace

The ruins of Diocletian’s Palace in Split are still inhabited – and they don’t look that different from how they did to Robert Adam in the 1750s

22 Dec 2016
Easter Monday (c. 1950), Winifred Nicholson.

Winifred Nicholson and the pleasures of colour

An exhibition on Winifred Nicholson shows why her painting had such an impact on the work of her peers

21 Dec 2016
The Day’s End (1927), Ernest Proctor.

‘There was always good and bad figurative art’

The figurative artists of the 1920s and ’30s should not be considered secondary to their abstract contemporaries – as numerous recent exhibitions have shown

19 Dec 2016