‘Notre-Dame’s fortunes have merged with the destiny of France itself’
Over the centuries Notre-Dame de Paris has become much more than a place of worship – it is a symbol of a nation
‘How do you solve a problem like Thérèse?’ – Balthus in Madrid reviewed
Balthus’ strange, dream-like paintings deliberately set out to unsettle viewers
A new tower of Babel rises in the Bodleian Library
We know what translation can do – but what does it look like? Eight centuries of multilingual activity is on show in Oxford
‘The world was better because Okwui was around, fighting for what he believed’
Okwui Enwezor was not just an influential curator, but one of the most important public intellectuals of our time
An elegy for Notre-Dame, in words and pictures
The great Gothic cathedral has inspired innumerable artists and writers over the centuries
Sheela Gowda shows her extraordinary works made out of everyday materials in Milan
The artist’s installations seem completely at home in the HangarBicocca
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April 2019
• The painters who invented Norway
• An interview with Jenny Holzer
• Jean Dubuffet’s collection of Art Brut
• What can neuroscience tell us about art?
Plus: Gillian Darley on the Naples metro, Alice Spawls on Dorothea Tanning and Harriet Baker on Balthus
Little Britain – the Elizabethan passion for portrait miniatures
Flaunted in public and pored over in private, the portraits of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver encapsulate their age
Julian Schnabel makes us see through Van Gogh’s eyes – At Eternity’s Gate reviewed
The film tries to imagine what being the painter was like – the results are as stressful, and appealing, as you might expect
Discovering an underwater trove of gifts to the gods
An ancient ceremonial site at Lake Titicaca offers a glimpse into the lives and faith of a pre-Inca people
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The Dutchman who shaped our view of Italy
Celebrated abroad, but little known at home, Caspar van Wittel more or less singlehandedly invented view painting
‘People have to be reminded that the Bauhaus started here’ – inside the new Bauhaus Museum in Weimar
The city is taking pains to address all aspects – both good and bad – of the legendary design school’s history
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Museums need to move with the times – that’s why deaccessioning isn’t always bad news
In their missions to stay modern, institutions are sometimes right to reevaluate their holdings
Rediscovering a lost view of London
When Prévost painted his panorama from the tower of St Margaret’s Church, he captured a city on the cusp of change
The European armoury that inspired Henry Moore
It was on visits to the Wallace Collection that the sculptor first became fascinated with the form of the helmet
The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Russell Tovey
The actor talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about his ‘addiction’ to collecting art – from Tintin to Tracey Emin
Vienna on the Path to Modernism
National Art Center Tokyo
Retracing the development of modern art in Vienna from the Enlightenment to the Secession
24 Apr - 5 Aug 2019
Photographs 1842–1896: An Early Album of the World
Louvre Abu Dhabi
From India to the Andean mountains – early photography provides a glimpse of a long-lost world
25 Apr - 13 Jul 2019
Doris Salcedo: Acts of Mourning
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
The Colombian artist turns commonplace things into haunting evocations of loss
26 Apr - 21 Jul 2019
Art after Stonewall: 1969–1989
Grey Art Gallery and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York
How artists in America responded to the rise of the gay liberation movement
24 Apr - 20 Jul 2019
Performance art costs a lot to produce – but can it make money, too?
The status of performance may be on the up, but its place in the art market is still precarious