How did British artists respond to the AIDS crisis?
While Britain was no less affected by the disease than the United States, the response of its gay artists at the start of the crisis was provocatively distinct
Can NFTs make a come-back?
Five leading figures in the digital art world offer their insights into how the NFT market will evolve following the crypto crash
Surveillance tactics – the art of spying on screen
The Cinémathèque française’s unsettling show about film-making and espionage reveals how much the two activities have in common
How Henry Fuseli turned poems into paintings
No 18th-century painter was more enthusiastic about embracing the most sensational subjects in English literature than the Swiss-born artist
The soft resistance of Magdalena Abakanowicz’s woven sculptures
The Polish artist worked at a monumental scale but her most impressive works are less about the size than the expressive potential of her craft
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Mimic men – how artists have spurred each other to new heights
An illuminating exhibition in Vienna explores how artists from the Greeks on have revelled in rivalries
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In the studio with… Rachel Feinstein
The American sculptor discusses her passion for audio books and what she has in common with Roger Federer
In the studio with… Gilbert & George
The duo’s east London studio is, they say, the world’s cleanest, so that they can be as dirty as they want in their art
December 2022
A very proud Mary in Florence
The fantasies of Henry Fuseli
Art in the time of the AIDS crisis
Can contemporary art be funny?
Plus: reframing the Fitzwilliam Museum, a brief history of mulled wine, what’s next for NFTs and, in reviews: the triumph of the Tudors, ways of seeing at the Wellcome Collection and the unfashionable art of Ruskin Spear
The film-maker exploring Nigeria’s hangover from colonial rule
Ayo Akingbade’s new short film, set in the first Guinness factory to be built outside of the UK and Ireland, reveals a troubling story of labour and power
Inside track – the artists who really know how to portray their subjects
The curator Andrew Bonacina explains why Gwen John’s obsessive approach to portraiture became the starting point for a group show at Michael Werner gallery in London
The curse of Tutankhamun strikes again – but it’s nothing that can’t be fixed with glue
The breaking of a plaque to commemorate Howard Carter in Luxor isn’t a wholly inappropriate way to mark the centenary of his great discovery
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Auction highlights – what Hong Kong is bringing to the table this month
As New York takes stock of a whirlwind season, attention turns to marquee sales in Asia
The medieval Palazzo Davanzati in Florence is full of hidden wonders
Newly restored, this museum is both an architectural treasure and home to works by Masaccio’s unfairly overlooked younger brother
The British painter who was bullied into obscurity
Denis Wirth-Miller was unfairly dismissed as an imitator of his friend Francis Bacon, but it’s now clear that his detractors were wholly in the wrong
Mobs, murder and manuscripts – why ‘Pentiment’ is a must-play for art historians
In Obsidian’s new video game, you are a 16th-century Bavarian painter – but progress on your masterpiece is interrupted by parochial violence
Is the art market about to tank? What the experts say
Six leading economists and art advisers offer their insights into how the market will be affected by a global recession
For Lawrence Abu Hamdan, music makes a mockery of borders
The sound artist and ‘private ear’ talks to Apollo about his new film commission in Bristol, set in a library that straddles the US-Canadian border
The irresistible cool of Bernice Bing
The Asian Art Museum is reviving interest in a painter who was at the heart of San Francisco’s arts scene in her lifetime, but all too quickly forgotten after her death
The other-worldly architecture of Rudolf Steiner
The mystically inspired polymath was never a professional architect, but his haunting buildings are among modernism’s most curious structures
The Belvedere. 300 Years a Place of Art
A display in Vienna charts the history of one of the world’s first public museums
Horror in the Modernist Block
Contemporary artists explore the fearful potential of architecture at Ikon gallery in Birmingham
Helen Frankenthaler: Painterly Constellations
The American abstract painter’s soak-stain canvases and vivid works on paper get their first showing in Germany for more than 20 years
Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art
The Met celebrates the inventiveness with which ancient Maya artists depicted the life cycles of their gods
What’s the point of old postcards?
Unused postcards may seem like a blast from the past, but they can still send a powerful message