Who really pays for public exhibitions?
The Venice Biennale is a good time to pull back the curtain on the funding of major arts events, which can often be shrouded in mystery
 
					The Venice Biennale is a good time to pull back the curtain on the funding of major arts events, which can often be shrouded in mystery
 
					The artists may have spoken about voids and infinities, but the market for their work has stayed satisfyingly solid
 
					At the art fair’s first edition under new ownership medieval manuscripts can be found alongside contemporary offerings
 
					Artists over the centuries have often depicted women as mothers, but where are all the deadbeat dads?
 
					Underground storage can be dark and sinister, but when it’s used for wine, it can become a place of deep pleasure
 
					The pop artist believed that artists should make work for the masses. Decades after his death, his images are everywhere
 
					Maarten van Heemskerck’s expert renderings of Rome inspired his countrymen to see the city for themselves
 
					The rest of the city still has plenty to offer, from an exploration of the travels of Marco Polo to a celebration of Jean Cocteau’s genius
 
					The Norwegian painter was referring to Ibsen’s play 'Ghosts' when he painted his dream-like landscape of 1906
 
					Do digital techniques to enliven familiar paintings help or hinder our understanding of the art at hand?
 
					A rustic painting by Annibale Carracci highlights how the act of eating in art has long been tied to class and status
 
					Despite the painstaking research that underpins the artist’s work, there’s nothing dry about its outcomes – as visitors to the Canadian Pavilion in Venice will discover
 
					The director of the 2024 Biennale talks to Apollo about the challenges the event faces and why he is sanguine about the changing political tides
 
					Part biographical survey, part crash-course in Lacanian thought, an exhibition about the psychoanalyst’s links to art could do with a sharper focus
 
					The artist’s vast body of work is full of daring conceits and tantalising contradictions
 
					The writer’s survey of interwar architecture is a monumental achievement that reminds us that modernism was only part of the 20th-century story
 
					A new life of the auteur lays bare the obsessiveness behind his films and what it cost everyone around him
 
					There’s no doubt that the painter was an important and intriguing artist, but that doesn't excuse his behaviour
 
					The artist’s irrepressible energy shines out in this survey of her long career at Bard Graduate Center, writes Eve M. Kahn