From the March 2026 issue of Apollo. In the cultural and artistic history of Vienna, Prince Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein is not a name that often springs to mind. But in around 1675 he published a ...

From the October 2026 issue of Apollo. In 1974 John Ashbery published a collection, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, which made him the most celebrated American poet of his generation. The book’s ...

From the October 2026 issue of Apollo. Art Basel Paris is the smallest fair in the Art Basel roster, but it still dominates the French capital. This month more than 200 exhibitors of modern and ...

It is the strangest normal day imaginable. At Beamish, a sprawling 350-acre recreation of everyday life in the north-east of England from the 1820s to the 1950s, a signpost tells me that I can walk ...

Ye Ying is a leading Chinese contemporary art and cultural critic, and has been Editor-in-Chief of The Art Newspaper China since its foundation in 2013. Previously, she was the Arts Editor at Chinese ...

Cl assical art is a heritage of loss. The great majority of the works of art produced in ancient Greece and Rome no longer survive. Paintings have rotted, crumbled or burned. Marble statues were ...

From the June 2026 issue of Apollo. Anyone with a passing interest in cricket will know about the 1981 Ashes series, remembered chiefly for the third test at Headingley, in which Ian Botham dragged ...

From the January 2026 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. The long-anticipated opening of the first exhibition at the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City, in Edo State, southern ...

Long after David Sassoon’s descendants had entered the highest echelons of English society, their collecting reflected the family’s ties to the Middle East, India and China As Nahson and Da Costa ...

The ‘scrying glass’ belonging to the Elizabethan magician and astrologer John Dee, now in the British Museum, has long been regarded as one of the most enigmatic Tudor artefacts. While it was ...

In 1781, the sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–83) cut a strange figure. A decade before, he had been an artist at the heart of Viennese high society. Poised to become professor of sculpture at ...

We have all become suddenly more aware of the moments when we cannot avoid touching elements of public buildings. Architecture is the most physical, most imposing and most present of the arts – you ...