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The Apollo podcast: Mark Gatiss on John Minton

Mark Gatiss tells Thomas Marks about his new film on John Minton – and his lifelong fascination with the artist

6 Aug 2018

The museum pieces that every school kid needs to see

Leading figures pick objects from UK collections that should be seen by every child in the country

19 Jul 2018

Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography And Abstract Art

How painting and photography have approached abstractionism, from cubism to the present day

Tate Modern, London
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Rasheed Araeen.

‘There is an element of optimism in my work’

Rasheed Araeen talks to Apollo about six-decades of making visually arresting and politically engaged art

27 Jan 2018
Odalisque in Grisaille (c. 1824–34), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource / Scala, Florence

Monochrome: Painting in Black and White

What happens when artists cast aside the colour spectrum to focus on the power of black, white and everything in between

National Gallery, London
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Alex Farquharson

Director, Tate Britain, London

9 Aug 2017
'Lange eenzame man' (2010) (left) and P XIII (2008) (right), Berlinde De Bruyckere, installation view, Mona. Photo: Mona/Rémi Chauvin

Getting to grips with the nature of art at Mona

Turns out that the museum of sex and death has much more on its mind

19 Jan 2017
Meat Porters, (1959), Ralph Brown

Private collections may be a good thing for public institutions

In a time of increased uncertainty for public art institutions, museums are reevaluting their relationships with private collectors

16 Jan 2017
Breathing Light (2013), James Turrell © James Turrell. Photo © Florian Holzherr

The James Turrell cure for election day blues

‘Hopefully some nice, trippy light installations will take my mind off the madness’

25 Nov 2016
Shift (1996–97), Jenny Saville

Drop in the value of sterling attracts global buyers

June’s auctions see works by Moore, Saville and Picardy exceeding expectations, while several museum-worthy pieces change hands

1 Sep 2016
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Lines of thought

The Poole Museum shows how drawing is one of the most effective mediums for representing and exploring ideas

Poole Museum
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Studies of the Virgin and Child (detail; c. 1522–24), Michelangelo. Pen and brown ink, with copies in red chalk by Antonio Mini. British Museum

‘Draw and don’t waste time’. Lessons from Michelangelo and the Old Masters

Art students these days are more likely to keep a blog than a sketchbook. The British Museum’s touring exhibition of historic drawings seeks to change that

15 Aug 2016

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

The artists providing airline security, an Olympic art blooper and looking for the Mona Lisa at the National Gallery

8 Aug 2016

How is London’s art market faring after the Brexit vote?

It’s been a turbulent week, but the mood at London’s auction houses and art fairs is cautiously optimistic

1 Jul 2016
View of SFMOMA from Yerba Buena Gardens

SFMOMA reopens at the heart of San Francisco’s booming art scene

With 3,000 new works, a major extension, and an ingenious way of working with collectors, SFMOMA is becoming a modern art museum to rival all others

12 May 2016

Tim Sayer’s remarkable collection makes its public debut

The self-confessed ‘artoholic’ has donated a huge collection of 20th-century works to the Hepworth Wakefield

23 Mar 2016

The Met Breuer’s biggest strength is its ability to make you think

Two fresh and distinct inaugural exhibitions could set a new blueprint for the museum

17 Mar 2016

Garden Bridge faces last-ditch challenge

Art News Daily : 7 March

7 Mar 2016

‘All kinds of abstract art were possible.’ Alan Bowness on post-war British painting

Sir Alan Bowness’s art collection goes on display at a new public gallery at Downing College Cambridge

21 Dec 2015

New York exhibitions to see before Christmas

Take a break from Christmas shopping to take in some art

13 Dec 2015

An Imagined Museum

You’ve arrived at Tate Liverpool in the future. All of the works of art on display are about to disappear,…

Tate Liverpool
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Just who is Britain’s Greatest Living Artist?

Don’t Ask the Critics…

22 Oct 2015

Frieze Bites

Changing it up at PAD and Frieze Masters; Lee Ufan at Pace; Gutai, Zero and Kusama at Bonhams; Multiplied at Christie’s

16 Oct 2015