Traditional boatyards and boat-building techniques have long been in decline – but the pandemic has only worsened the situation
Dia Art Foundation’s support for ambitious experimental artists is as resolute as ever, its director Jessica Morgan tells Apollo
On the bicentenary of the poet’s birth, his art criticism still hums with outrage
In 2006, Jonathan Yeo painted Prince Philip’s portrait – an invigorating if at times nerve-wracking experience
Plus: French galleries are suing the government to reopen, Egypt moves its royal mummies in a a televised extravaganza, and more stories
Rakewell suspects that Leonardo would have loved the invention of film and TV, but what would he have made of Aidan Turner, aka Ross Poldark, playing him?
Two new books offer complementary perspectives – the macro and the micro – on the modern museum
She may paint Penthouse pin-ups, but Lisa Yuskavage’s work is far more compassionate than some critics allow – not that she makes art with morality in mind
From that scandalous scallop to her Mary Wollstonecraft monument, Maggi Hambling is no stranger to controversy
• Alice Neel’s forthright portraits of her fellow New Yorkers
• The trenchant art criticism of Charles Baudelaire
• Antony Gormley on how sculpture can change the world
• The surreal houses of Edward James
Plus: Dia Art Foundation returns to Chelsea, Eugène Atget’s uncanny photographs of Paris, the future of department stores, the opening of the Frick Madison, and Kaywin Feldman on cultural leadership in the 21st century
An exhibition examining Black experience in America is powerful if piecemeal – and is necessarily exhausting
The pandemic has highlighted the need for urban projects such as the Camden Highline – and London has a long history of transforming unloved sites into havens for city dwellers
The recent move of the royal mummies in Cairo was a made-for-TV extravaganza
Agatha Christie’s sleuth has been nowhere more at home than in ITV’s interwar locations – their clean lines the perfect match for the punctilious Poirot
The painter’s urgent, sympathetic portraits of her fellow New Yorkers are exactly what we need in these troubled times
Yes, it’s happened – a leading art collection is now available on a food delivery app
The knavery and folly of the rarefied art world are writ large in a documentary that picks over the Knoedler forgery scandal
We’re all building miniature museums at home, and postcards of paintings have taken on a life of their own
Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave co-star as the artist and his mother in this claustrophobic portrait of domestic dysfunction
Deaccessioning rules for US museums have been relaxed to raise money for collection care – and even the Met may take advantage. It’s a slippery slope, says Thomas P. Campbell
What does art smell like? The Mauritshuis’s new fragrance box helps you to sniff out an answer at home
A retrospective at the Whitney shows how the photographer has brought marginalised American communities into view
A display of remixes by Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi at Cleveland Museum of Art
The National Gallery of Victoria shows how artists took to the outback to reimagine the national landscape en plein air
How to behave in a commercial gallery, if you’ve never dared set foot in one
They may have intimidated you in the past – but you’ll have to wise up to the ways of commercial galleries if you want to see any art in the UK this month