May 2024

An exhibition at the Soane Museum shows that technical drawings of buildings are often more complex than they may seem

Art by the movement’s best-known practitioners still fetches huge sums, but it’s work by women and artists of colour that is really taking off

The wares on offer at the event this month are enough to bowl over any ceramics aficionado

If sales so far this year are anything to go by, the high-profile auctions taking place this month may not bring much excitement

This year’s laudably international line-up gives plenty of space to photography, performance and video

Seeing art is often a purely visual experience, but we shouldn't be afraid of exploring our other senses in the gallery

It seems as if arts criticism is becoming a treat for political journalists – but perhaps the job should be treated a little more seriously

The modernist building houses many significant works, but it’s the museum’s canny marketing and astute navigation of choppy political climates that really set it apart as it celebrates its 50th anniversary

The porcelain marvels produced in the 18th century combine opulence with naturalism to heart-stopping effect

By exhibiting Two Figures in the Grass the artist succeeded in attracting the controversy he was almost certainly courting

Paying hundreds of pounds for a dessert may seem excessive, but we wouldn’t think it an unreasonable price for a work of art

The Met’s return of a bronze statue to Thailand and the reaction in Cambodia shows the difficulty of recovering the origins of looted objects

The ancient Scottish relic makes for a captivating moment of theatre, but the rest of the displays are just as artfully done

Cultural institutions are increasingly cutting ties with fossil fuel sponsors, but art and oil have long been intertwined in surprising ways

The museum is founded on the collection of John Julius Angerstein and, 200 years later, the banker’s taste is still making itself felt

Wine has been part of the lifeblood of Crete since the Bronze Age – and one grower in particular is reaching back thousands of years for inspiration

Ahead of his Tate Britain commission, the artist tells Apollo about being inspired by Tupac and Cy Twombly and wanting to involve communities in everything he makes

Blake, Constable and Ivon Hitchens all feature in Alexandra Harris’s account of a place she knows well, but it’s the more obscure figures who really shine

In the late 1790s, modern women looking for new forms of freedom were often inspired by distant and mythical histories

In its telling of the story of the Mingei movement, the William Morris Gallery takes a refreshingly international approach

In the first half of the 15th century, artists drew on the Northern and Italian Renaissances to create a distinctly French cultural flowering

An exhibition in Venice of the French artist’s work is conceptually dense, but does it work in visual terms?