When attacks on art become art
While museums are desperate to stop climate actions involving works of art, a gallery in London has put defaced paintings front and centre, tomato soup and all
Four things to see: Photography
On the 260th anniversary of the birth of the man who took the first photo, here are four works that highlight bold approaches to photography
Asia Week New York is more of a cultural hub than ever
While other events are contracting, this New York mainstay remains a force to be reckoned with
‘The painting ought not to feel measured – something horrible is happening’
Tessa Hadley is unsettled by Giovanni Bellini’s eerily calm depiction of the murder of Saint Peter Martyr
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New kid on the bloc – behind the scenes at Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art
This nomadic gallery finally has a permanent home, but can the impressive collection protect it from Poland’s fraught cultural politics?
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
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In the studio with… Catherine Wagner
The San Francisco-based photographer has moved into a new space, and she’s getting used to a more communal environment – but order is still all-important
In the studio with… Jakkai Siributr
The Thai textile artist prefers silence in his studio so he can listen to his thoughts – which proves tricky when his dogs are hanging around
March 2025
It’s time for the UK to act on restitution
An interview with Alex Da Corte
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Music-making in Renaissance Italy
Plus: a new golden age at Versailles, Cycladic art over the centuries, the dangers of living in Los Angeles, Tracey Emin’s passion for painting, what new EU import laws will do to the art market, and a preview of TEFAF Maastricht; with reviews of modernism in Brazil, the drawings of Henri Michaux, and the essays of Svetlana Alpers. And Tessa Hadley on Bellini’s shocking depiction of the making of a martyr
The palace of Caserta has lost nothing of its power to astonish
Designed in the 18th century by Luigi Vanvitelli for Charles VII of Naples, Italy’s answer to Versailles is as dizzying today as it was 250 years ago
At home with Charles Dickens
The novelist was a wandering soul, so what can his house in London – now celebrating its centenary as a museum – tell us about the man?
Four things to see: Sculpting wood
On the 125th anniversary of the birth of the Jamaican artist Edna Manley, we examine four sculptures carved from wood
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What Severance says about our fractured selves
The sinister corporation in the dystopian office drama really cares about art, but the paintings on the walls only highlight the workers’ sense of alienation rather than relieving it
Tech bros of Versailles – ‘Science and Splendour’ at the Science Museum, reviewed
Technology and ornament went hand in hand at the court of Louis XIV, and his successors expected the same from the scientific advances of their day
Meet John Singer Sargent’s favourite family
The artist painted the Wertheimers 12 times, in portraits that shed light on the changing fortunes of an extraordinary family
Playing mind games with Joseph Kosuth
As the Hungarian-American artist celebrates his 80th birthday, is his brand of conceptual art still as radical as it once was?
The memory palace of Mario Praz
The scholar’s meticulously preserved apartment in Rome testifies to his passion for all things 19th century, and to how he treated collecting as a form of memoir
‘I’m not worried about going stagnant or out of fashion’ – an interview with Jake Grewal
Ahead of an exhibition at Studio Voltaire, the painter talks to Apollo about queerness, his obsession with charcoal and why he loves the work of Keith Vaughan
Citizen Guillaume – the painter whose fortunes followed the French Revolution’s
The story of an artist who has been forgotten for nearly 200 years reflects the hopes and failures of the turbulent times he lived through
A fitting tribute to Dior
An imaginative exhibition in The Hague stresses how much the fashion house still owes to its founder
100 Ideas of Happiness: Art Treasures from Korea
Earthenware, gold jewellery, stone carvings and other gems from Korea reign supreme at the Royal Palace in Dresden
Edvard Munch Portraits
Though often thought of as a shy character, Munch painted a wide network of friends and peers, as this show in London attests
A World of Water
Humans have long depicted the sea in wildly different ways, as this show at the Sainsbury Centre makes clear
Steina: Playback
The Buffalo AKG celebrates a restlessly experimental artist who was at the heart of New York’s avant-garde in the 1970s and ’80s
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How to give back looted objects
UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution. It’s time for politicians to end the impasse and give them greater autonomy over their collections