Intricate automata made for Chinese emperors are travelling from the Palace Museum in Beijing to the Science Museum in London
The Met explores the long and productive relationship between painting, calligraphy and poetry through 90 works from its own collection
Paintings commissioned for the gallerist’s apartment in Paris have been reunited for the first time in nearly a century
Plus: art dealer Brent Sikkema found dead in Brazil | Scottish museums face funding crisis
A miniature copy of the Apollo Belvedere and a Mesoamerican jade statuette are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
Diane Wolfthal discusses the dizzying visions of heaven and hell to be found in a medieval prayer book at the Morgan Library
Plus: Poland withdraws its Biennale submission | swingeing cuts to UK arts budgets by local councils cuts continue | and Ian Wardropper to retire as Frick director
Christine Sciacca of the Walters Art Museum explains how a processional icon of surprisingly modern design was made and what it means
Plus: the Academy of Arts in Berlin warns against violations of civil liberties in Germany and the Met returns 14 trafficked artefacts to Cambodia and Thailand
The Polish artist who works with Elon Musk and takes her robot for walks believes in technology, but has other idols too
From a festive snapshot to a paper angel, we’ve picked four objects that make up the perfect Christmas day
From snapshots of Martin Luther King Jr. to a mural commemorating the Peterloo massacre, we look at four objects that speak of the long struggle for civil rights
The seedier side of city life has captured the imaginations of artists throughout the decades
Plus: Russian artist Aleksandra Skochilenko jailed for seven years for anti-war protest, Joe Tilson (1928–2023), and B.N. Goswamy (1933–2023)
The British monarch was no patron of the arts, but the political upheaval of her reign inspired many writers and artists
Artists of the period found inventive ways of responding to and confronting an atmosphere of fear and oppression
The art fair is occupying a new venue this year with more exhibitors and large-scale projects that shine a light on art from Southeast Asia
Photographers have long used their medium to document pressing social issues and overlooked communities
Andy Warhol might get all the glory but there are many other artists associated with the movement whose work has been overshadowed or forgotten
A 30m-long painting presents the Kiangxi Emperor touring southern China, says Clarissa von Spee of the Cleveland Museum of Art
144 years after Thomas Edison’s light bulb changed the world forever, we take look at four illuminating works of art and objects
The painter was no prodigy but, as Bart Cornelis of the National Gallery in London tells Apollo, he was soon making up for lost time with his bold brushwork
Plus: Buddha sculpture stolen from Bakarat Gallery, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco sues its architect, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Emerging in France in the 1720s, this new style gave artists free rein to be as over the top as they liked
December 2024
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This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
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