‘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
Rasheed Araeen talks to Apollo about six-decades of making visually arresting and politically engaged art
Art news daily : 10 July
Like the city itself, the strength of this fair is in its variety
The 18 Chinese artists involved in 'A Beautiful Disorder' have created sculptures that deliberately disrupt our view of the English landscape
Bacon, Warhol, Rothko...All the usual big-hitters appear in this month's blue-chip sales. For the sake of variety, here are a few other highlights
Let's hope the disgruntled students at Columbia University don't take their protests against Moore's work to these extremes...
The self-confessed 'artoholic' has donated a huge collection of 20th-century works to the Hepworth Wakefield
Eddie Peake dresses up for Victoria Beckham; David Cameron pops into Pace; and the taste of Tinder CEO Sean Rad
Nearly 50 years ago, Richard Long transformed a simple walk into a radical act. The artist talks to Apollo about mud and mark-making, his new prints, and why he can’t stop walking
Sheila Girling dies aged 90; Centre Pompidou plans pop-ups; Musée Maillol closes unexpectedly, and the Whitworth reopens...
The 45th edition of Art Basel returns with a dynamic programme of exhibitions and events
Christian art can never be straightforwardly representational
Apollo is delighted to announce the winners of the Apollo Awards 2013
His work at the Royal Academy strives for poetic significance, but does Bill Woodrow offer anything new?
From Charlton Heston writhing on a scaffold in the Sistine Chapel to Kirk Douglas’s dead ringer for Van Gogh, films about painters were prestige studio fare
The historian of 18th- and early 19th-century art combined a deep love of objects with an equally deep love of ideas
Hettie Judah considers how artists such as Tracey Emin and Kiki Smith have represented the sacred bond between women and their cats
At the Henry Moore Institute, artists and poets are hanging on to language for all they’ve got, finding meaning in the spaces between writing and objects
A rare 17th-century portrait of a Black woman and a white woman and an illustrated Armenian manuscript are among this month’s highlights
The growing tendency to fold 20th-century makers into the history of modern art often ignores what was truly innovative about their work