The 16th-century physician John Caius didn’t have much time for spaniels. In De Canibus Britannicis – a milestone survey of Tudor-era dog breeds, republished after his death as Of Englishe Dogges – he ...

This review of Street, Palace, Square: The Architecture of Democratic Spaces by Jan-Werner Müller appears in the October 2026 issue of Apollo. We think we know what an architecture of totalitarianism ...

Ian Davenport uses all manner of household tools, including watering cans, nails and electric fans, to create works that explore the physical qualities of paint. In some works, bursts of air cause ...

From the October 2026 issue of Apollo. Fossilised dinosaur skeletons are a rare hot point in today’s otherwise tepid art market. In July, Sotheby’s New York sold Gus, an 11-metre-long, complete ...

Following early incarnations at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C., and the Art Institute of Chicago, an exhibition covering 2,000 years of Korea art and culture ...

In this week’s edition of dinner parties your roving correspondent can only dream of being invited to: the state banquet held by Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., for Chinese president Xi Jinping, ...

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has returned 36 antiquities to Syria. Among the objects repatriated at a ceremony in New York on 23 September is a stone funerary relief from Palmyra and 14 ...

From ancient artefacts and Old Master paintings to modern British works and beyond, the fair returns with a range of works on offer by more than 140 galleries. Piano Nobile, a regular at the fair, is ...

From the October 2026 issue of Apollo. There is a red-figure ceramic vessel, dug up in southern Italy and dating to the fifth century BC, that bears the painted image of a robot. He has collapsed into ...

Figures from art history are supplanted by those from modern-day New York in Toor’s paintings – 19 of which make up the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Europe. Painted with Toor’s signature ...

Salman Toor spent years copying baroque, rococo and neoclassical paintings before encountering the work of modern South Asian artists: intimate scenes by Amrita Sher-Gil, Bhupen Khakhar’s fantastical ...

The back-to-school September auctions are a true medley, a time to bring out some colourful single-owner collections as an amuse-bouche before the more predictable main course: the autumn sales season ...