Thirty finalists from 19 countries were selected from more than 5,000 submissions – and the winner will be announced on 12 May
Court painters couldn’t bestow eternal life on their royal patrons, but they certainly knew how to make art that lasted
Plus: the South African pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale will be empty, and the Hungarian artist Dóra Maurer has died at 88
Tate Modern’s major retrospective takes in the artist’s early work, her return to painting and everything in-between
An intimate survey of the photographer’s work, co-curated by one of his close friends, goes on display at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn
The Royal Academy of Arts reveals how carefully conceived even the most cartoonish of the artist’s paintings really are
The Viennese artist captured the grandeur of Austria’s landscapes, from river deep to mountain high
At TM Gallery in London, the curator and owner of CLOSE Gallery in Somerset talked to Apollo about the Gilbert Bayes Award for early-career sculptors
A masterpiece of medieval German sculpture and a portrait by Joshua Reynolds are among the most important works to have entered public collections recently
To mark 150 years since the birth of Constantin Brâncuși, we look at four artworks that take wing in very different ways
