Though only 30 km separated Frans Hals and Rembrandt van Rijn – who worked in Haarlem and Amsterdam respectively – there’s no record of the 17th-century masters ever meeting. Their work, however, ...
From the November 2026 issue of Apollo. Through the second half of the 20th century, Ernst and Hildy Beyeler amassed one of the world’s finest private collections of modern art, comprising more than ...
In mid May this year, New York felt even more like the centre of the art world than it has in recent years. The big auctions coinciding with heavy-hitting fairs Frieze, Independent and TEFAF reminded ...
Museum extensions are a seemingly unstoppable phenomenon. In London, the National Gallery is planning a whole new wing, architects to be determined. MoMA is the undisputed global leader in this field, ...
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 ...
It is a century since most of Sir John Soane’s structure was demolished to make way for Herbert Baker’s bigger but more boring vision If there’s one widely known fact about the buildings of the Bank ...
From the October 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Giovanni Antonio Canal’s paintings are immediately recognisable but rarely set pulses racing. That changed this summer, when a ...
An 18th-century gallerist is showing an aristocratic client a painting that hangs in a stately home. ‘This is by Lodovico Cardi, a disciple of Alessandro Allori,’ he announces, standing in front of a ...
From the July/August 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. The Royal Palace in Oslo sits on top of a hill, the Queen’s Park stretching behind. It is easy to think of fairy tales as you ...
Owen Hatherley’s new book is ‘The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century’ (Allen Lane). The book, which looks at the fields of photography, film, ...
‘It’s a decorative art, it’s more than fashion’ – Francesca Galloway talks about collecting couture A leading dealer in Indian paintings and textiles, she also has an extensive collection of ...
UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution. It’s time for politicians to end the impasse and give them greater autonomy over their collections From the March 2025 issue of Apollo.
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