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Creative schools: the artists taking art education into their own hands

Fees and funding cuts are taking their toll in the UK, but artists are a resourceful lot…

10 Sep 2014

Autumn Highlights: what to watch out for in Paris

Paris is getting back into gear after the August exodus. What’s coming up in the city’s art calendar?

3 Sep 2014

Autumn Highlights: what to watch out for in Los Angeles

What’s next for the Los Angeles art world? A look ahead at some of the gallery openings and relocations coming up this autumn

2 Sep 2014

Autumn Highlights: what to watch out for in London

The art world’s awake again after August’s sunny stasis. Which events stand out in London’s busy blockbuster season?

1 Sep 2014

The Week’s Muse: 30 August

The problem with posthumous art; a bitter exit for France’s Culture Minister; and why you should plant a poppy at the Tower of London this autumn

30 Aug 2014

Among the poppies: volunteering at the Tower of London’s war memorial

Paul Cummins’ red field of poppies has been planted by volunteers, and is still growing

27 Aug 2014

Wolsey’s Angels: the V&A seeks to acquire four important Renaissance sculptures

Cardinal Wolsey commissioned them, Henry VIII seized them, and now the V&A wants to preserve them

25 Aug 2014

What are we to make of posthumous art?

An exhibition of Garry Winogrand’s photography at the Metropolitan Museum includes many posthumous prints. Do they have a place there?

25 Aug 2014

The Week’s Muse: 23 August

Bob and Roberta Smith stands up for art in schools; Alfredo Jaar interrupts the adverts in Times Square; and the utopian appeal of geometric art

23 Aug 2014

‘Art Party’: Bob and Roberta Smith’s defense of art in schools

We spoke to the artist at the head of a campaign to keep creativity on the school curriculum

21 Aug 2014

‘This is not America’. Alfredo Jaar interrupts the adverts in Times Square

Jarr’s restaged message to ‘America’ feels as as relevant as ever

20 Aug 2014

Radical Order: Geometry and the Utopian Impulse

What’s behind the enduring appeal of geometry in modern art?

19 Aug 2014

The Week’s Muse: 16 August

Are art installations the new video games? Are adverts the new art installations? News and comment from the Muse Room…

16 Aug 2014

Are art installations the new video games?

Playful, interactive, digitally-enhanced: is art straying closer to the video game than ever before?

14 Aug 2014

Art and Advertising: friends or foes?

Cosy, co-dependent, sometimes antagonistic: the relationship between art and advertising is a complicated affair

12 Aug 2014

Folk Art and ‘Civilisation’: the question of art in context

Tate Britain’s ‘Kenneth Clark’ and ‘Folk Art’ shows looked at, and outside, the art-historical canon

12 Aug 2014

Milking It: Delaware Art Museum will sell two more works of art

Winslow Homer’s ‘Milking Time’ and Alexander Calder’s ‘The Black Crescent’ are next up

11 Aug 2014

The Week’s Muse: 9 August

A look back over some of the recent news and comment from Apollo’s Muse Room

9 Aug 2014

The Tate Affair: then and now

The Tate has been in the firing line in recent years; is recent criticism comparable to the infamous ‘Tate Affair’ of 1952–54?

5 Aug 2014

Lights Out: Remembering the First World War

The UK’s monuments will go dark this evening, marking 100 years since the start of the First World War

4 Aug 2014
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

Making an entrance: the Fitzwilliam Museum’s opulent portico has been restored

The magnificent entrance has been meticulously spruced up

2 Aug 2014

The Week’s Muse: 2 August

40 Under 40; a gallery for Goldsmiths, art in Edinburgh; and a closer look at museum displays

2 Aug 2014

Preservation vs Presentation: is digital display a solution for museums?

Why museums should put their objects online

1 Aug 2014