In an interview with Apollo in 2017, four years before his death, the American artist Wayne Thiebaud claimed that ‘the art world is not much interested in humour […] to its disadvantage’.

“I knew the man before the artist,” the composer, Beethoven scholar and collector Luigi Magnani wrote of Giorgio Morandi, in ...

San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum devotes a show to the American artist, who took ideas from Picasso, Van Gogh and countless others and playfully transformed them into his own compelling canvases ...