The political backdrop to Jirō Takamatsu's art
The Japanese artist deserves to be better known in Britain, but his playful, political work suffers out of context
Collaboration and conversation in Ljubljana
A shared belief in the democratic possibilities of print makes for an optimistic biennial
Joseph Beuys’s boxing career
Waddington Custot celebrates Beuys’s boxing skills, while a mysterious British artist steals the show at Bagshawe Fine Art
The Apollo podcast: Amanda Levete
Thomas Marks talks to architect Amanda Levete about the V&A’s Exhibition Road Quarter, designed by her practice AL_A
Scared of the modern?
The British realists of the 1920s and ’30s scrupulously recorded the modern era – but in doing so, they were also avoiding it
The unsolved mysteries of Alberto Giacometti
Giacometti’s art seems as enigmatic as ever in this survey of the sculptor’s work at Tate Modern
Advert
July/August 2017
• An interview with Carolee Schneemann
• D.H. Lawrence among the Etruscans
• Antiquities debates in Israel
• A potted history of studio ceramics
PLUS: tribal art, French symbolism, Raqib Shaw and much more
Advert
Alma-Tadema deserves to be loved again
The artist has fallen so far out of critical fashion that his merits are often completely overlooked
The architects who designed their own homes
The houses that architects designed for themselves can tell us much about their attitudes to their work
How men dress up for art
From 17th-century cavaliers to today’s celebrities and athletes, artists have always had an eye on men’s fashion
Restoring Turner’s vision for Sandycombe Lodge
Sandycombe Lodge, built by J.M.W. Turner in 1812, offers an intriguing glimpse of the painter’s potential as an architect
Shining a light on France’s disused quarries
Once, they provided the stones that built Paris. Now, the disused quarries of Saint-Maximin are being transformed into venues for art
Advert
What the Minotaur can tell us about Picasso
An exhibition documenting Picasso’s obsession with minotaurs and matadors is a curatorial triumph
A history of Algeria in seven stops
A major archaeological discovery has put Algeria’s history in the spotlight. What can its existing world heritage sites tell us about the country’s past?
More to cheese than meets the eye?
How Dutch meal still life paintings captured the great intellectual preoccupations of the 17th century
Royal Gifts
Buckingham Palace, London
250 objects from more than 100 countries and territories are presented at this year’s summer opening of the State Rooms
22 Jul - 1 Oct 2017
Occasional Geometries
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Artist Rana Begum curates this colourful exhibition of abstract works from the Arts Council Collection
15 Jul - 29 Oct 2017
We Set the Tone: Pictures of Music from Mantegna to Matisse
Museum of Prints and Drawings, Berlin
An exhibition that uses works on paper to explore the unique affinity between musical and pictorial expression
21 Jul - 5 Nov 2017
Charles Sheeler from Doylestown to Detroit
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
40 photographs from the MFA’s extensive holdings place Sheeler at the forefront of American modernism
22 Jul - 5 Nov 2017
40 Under 40 Asia Pacific
The most inspirational young people in the Asia Pacific art world
Digital replicas are not soulless – they help us engage with art
Rather than seeing replicas as knock-offs, we should think of them like maps or models