As the National Gallery prepares for its upcoming bicentenary, its director Gabriele Finaldi discusses his vision for the future
The British sculptor keeps haunting relics of the colonial era in his London studio – and soothes himself with audiobooks while he works
This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
An insight into sculpture at this year’s fair, a rediscovered early copy of Austen’s ‘Emma’ and an Italian jeweller’s obsession with Etruria
An outstanding collection of some 900 Japanese cloisonné enamels is among this month’s highlights
An ambitious exhibition at the Beaux-Arts de Paris considers the mutual rivalry between art and science over the centuries
Sophie Barling talks to dealers and artists about the works on show at this year’s Masterpiece London fair
The one tool Julian Opie could least do without? His eyes, he says – although he’d be pretty lost without his computer too
The painter can’t listen to music when she works because she can’t get the songs out of her head – so it’s baseball on the radio instead
• The Russian artists making a stand against the war
• An interview with Gabriele Finaldi, director of the National Gallery
• The miniature marvels of Charles Paget Wade
• A Yoruba masterpiece in focus
Plus: London’s art market after Brexit, the Huntington Library comes up to speed, the beauty of banality, and reviews of Maillol’s sculptures, gilded manuscripts and Van Leo’s photographs of Cairo
As the eclectic fair returns to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Apollo picks out four highlights
The British artist keeps long hours and prefers to work alone, listening to the music of Alice Coltrane and Stevie Wonder or lately, the Italian radio
As the National Gallery prepares for its upcoming bicentenary, its director Gabriele Finaldi discusses his vision for the future
Judging where to draw the line between maintaining a safe silence and tacitly endorsing the war in Ukraine has become a pressing matter
Chauncey Hare was compared to Walker Evans and Diane Arbus, but he came to find the art world as repressive as the corporate world he loathed
The artist produced some of his most innovative and political works at the age of 80 by burning and torturing his canvases and also turning to textiles
The artist refused to paint people, preferring instead to focus on remote landscapes and natural phenomena
Judging where to draw the line between maintaining a safe silence and tacitly endorsing the war in Ukraine has become a pressing matter
As the UK falls behind in the global market, Jane Morris considers the route to reclaiming its competitive status
The British artist’s retrospective might appear visually weighty, but the work pays little attention to the history and politics of the materials used
The artist produced some of his most innovative and political works at the age of 80 by burning and torturing his canvases and also turning to textiles
Innovators in African fashion take centre stage in this major exhibition of the continent’s key creatives at the V&A
Modern technology and ancient sculpture meet to uncover the art of ancient polychromy in the Greek and Roman galleries at the Met
The Albertina Museum presents the impressive and diverse work of Tony Cragg in the form of more than 20 of his sculptures
The National Museum of Scotland looks back on more 500 years of medical history to determine the effect of anatomical study on society