Apart from a few magnificent examples, most of the lions here are the migrants, exiles and refugees that Rembrandt encountered in Amsterdam during a century in which some 60 per cent of the city’s ...
In everyday language, the term ‘curated’ suggests an element of falsehood rather than care. What can this tell us about the curator’s role in art? From the October 2026 issue of Apollo. A curious ...
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has reached a settlement with the Dutch government to ‘secure’ its future and avoid closure, the museum announced on 8 October. In August 2025 the museum said it may ...
A sunflower made of welded steel, a baroque architecture of beeswax, scaffolds and skeletons, pattern-making and processes of production. As much as the four nominees might be called ‘conceptual’ ...
From the 14th to the 18th centuries a game known as colf, a kind of early hybrid of modern golf and hockey, was played on the streets, fields and frozen lakes of the Low Countries. The 17th-century ...
With hundreds of exhibitions and events vying for attention in London during Frieze week, Apollo’s editors pick out the shows they don’t want to miss. In 1898, the Birmingham-born photographer Emma ...
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 ...
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 ...
Entry to national museums in the UK will be free to all visitors ‘forever’, Lisa Nandy, Secretary of State of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), announced on Tuesday. At an event at Tate ...
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 ...
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 ...
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