In his posters and illustrations the art nouveau artist fused Slavic motifs with Japanese influences to create a style that was truly cutting-edge
Pope Francis has set Catalonia’s architect-in-chief on the path to sainthood, but if the Sagrada Família is anything to go by, we could be in for a long wait
The beloved New York museum is reopening its doors after a four-year refurbishment – and there’s more to delight the public than ever before
The ups and downs in the lives of photographer Joel Meyerowitz and the writer and artist Maggie Barrett makes for documentary dynamite
Self-portraits and depictions of family and friends build a picture of the ‘Scream’ artist as insider rather than outsider, more savvy than angsty
The Psycho director may have hated them, but for those who aren’t as easily shell-shocked, eggs can crack open a whole new world
The biggest art fair in the Middle East is highlighting projects from the Global South and offering alternatives to Western traditions of displaying art
For five years, the husband-and-wife artists have lived in rural Japan, surrounded by the clacking of bamboo in the forest and the sights of misty hills
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
The Frick returns to Fifth Avenue
An interview with Oliver Beer
How the Acropolis became modern
In praise of ‘degenerate’ art
Also: The duchess who scandalised Spain, why the market for women’s art is slowing, Dutch paintings at Apsley House, how Bugatti built a style icon, the sensational designs of Alphonse Mucha, and a preview of Art Dubai; reviews of Gertrude Abercrombie in Pittsburgh, Medardo Rosso in Vienna, and a history of image-eating. Plus: Will Wiles on a French avant-garde portrait with a family connection
An exhibition of the Dutch paintings the 1st Duke of Wellington purchased in Paris reveals another aspect of an extraordinary life
Milan Design Week is, at its best, a comforting reminder of how good design can transform our lives
An exhibition in Tokyo celebrating the artists and artisans Loewe has worked with over the decades is tailor-made for craft lovers
The artist has used AI to reinterpret some of his old paintings. He explains to Apollo how this technology has given him a newfound freedom
The artist’s mescaline trips in the 1950s and ’60s led to extraordinary acts of creativity, when he tried to pin down their effect on paper
After rising for a decade, prices for women artists are levelling off. Is the current downturn just a temporary blip?
In recent portraits and seascapes the painter ponders time and memory, and the legacy of Lucian Freud and co.
An accomplished musician as well as a painter, Lorenzo Costa was perfectly placed to capture the changing fashions and shifting social etiquette of his day
With new leadership and restored rooms that haven’t looked this good since the Ancien Régime, the palace is entering a new golden era
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
Some 150 works by such luminaries as Ed Rossbach, Yayoi Kusama and Ruth Asawa put a different spin on the history of abstract art
Paintings by one of the great chroniclers of communist and post-Soviet Albania are displayed alongside site-specific works by the younger, Georgian artist Thea Djordjazde
The National Galleries of Scotland pull out all the stops in exploring the life and times of the Stuart king
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Suzanne Treister’s tarot offers humanity a new toolbox
The artist has updated her ‘Hexen’ deck charting the rise of the military-industrial complex for an age of climate crisis and disinformation