Pope Francis has set Catalonia’s architect-in-chief on the path to sainthood, but if the Sagrada Família is anything to go by, we could be in for a long wait
To mark its 260th birthday Baccarat has mixed a €37,000 cocktail, which would make even Louis XV, who granted the crystal-maker its warrant, pause before drinking up
Posters of the artist’s upcoming show have been pulled for featuring a cigarette – but he’s hardly the only painter who’s been partial to a puff
The national psychodrama sparked by the destruction of a Paddington Bear statue raises a question: when did we start taking fictional characters so seriously?
Making Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender look good in ‘Black Bag’ isn’t exactly hard, but making one of the UK’s ugliest buildings look attractive is an act of cinematic sorcery
The club has announced plans to build the biggest football stadium in the world, but can a piece of architecture really solve its ongoing identity crisis?
The Florence museum’s change to its ticketing system may well result in increased waiting times for visitors. But is queuing really such an ordeal?
On the eve of this year’s Academy Awards, disappointed nominees in the best director category should take comfort from an unusual set of candles
Impressionists and post-Impressionists rule among the paintings in Disney+ series ‘Paradise’, but it’s a Sargent that becomes a talking point
The New York Historical’s display about Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from Central Park Zoo, is a reminder of what freedom looks like and how easily it can be taken away
Posh is showing a raft of contemporary artworks at her London showroom, but will the Richters distract from the beautiful clothes on sale?
The late, great singer had noble origins – and the way she negotiated the machinations of Warhol’s Factory would put most courtiers to shame
After a period of pandalessness and at the end of a momentous week in the nation’s capital, the Smithsonian National Zoo presented two new visitors from China to the public
In his memoir, the Pope praises masterpieces of Italian neorealism by Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini – and defends Fellini with some assistance from Pasolini
A stone folly at the castle where Claudia Winkleman sniffs out treachery on television puts Apollo’s roving correspondent in mind of other perfect sites for plotting
As a giant green apple reappears atop the Magritte Museum in Brussels, Rakewell wonders which other artists might benefit from the super-size treatment
Playing Michelangelo in a new BBC docudrama about the artist’s turbulent time in Florence, Dance delivers more than a performance – he channels the divine
A series of naturist nights at a museum in Marseille is a salutary reminder that the term ‘art buff’ can have more than one meaning
The $6m acquisition at auction of a Maurizio Cattelan banana has been widely mocked, but perhaps the buyer’s intention to eat his purchase is a noble one
Hearing that the gallery is no longer hosting its usual bacchanal at Art Basel Miami Beach this year, Rakewell wonders whether White Cube has gone square
North-eastern France contains the largest number of war memorials in the country and a museum in Meaux is making an unusual new contribution
With the news that an artist is set to tie the knot with an interactive hologram, Rakewell wonders whether romance is dead after all
At the Art Gallery of Ontario, visitors fitted with heart monitors have found Otto Dix stimulating and Gerhard Richter soothing. The rest of art history remains to be rated…
A feud in Fife involving a single-minded outsider artist and his unhappy neighbour gives Apollo’s roving correspondent cause to reflect
