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 ...

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 ...

‘From the Director’s Office’ is supported by Bloomberg Connects. In the second edition of ‘From the Director’s Office’ – a new series in which we talk to museum directors about their collections and ...

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 ...

From scenes of lovers dancing in the sun to those of friends taking leisurely boat rides along the Seine, there’s an innate romance in the works of Renoir; not just in their subject matter but also in ...

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’ ...

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 ...

When Maurizio Cattelan first exhibited Novecento (1997) – a sculpture of a horse with elongated legs, suspended from a ceiling by a leather harness – it caused quite the stir. Seen as an embodiment of ...

‘Four things to see’ is sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, a free arts and culture platform that provides access to museums, galleries and cultural spaces around the world on demand. Explore now. Each ...

In 1942 the artist Long Chin-san depicted a riverside spring in a manner that was barely distinguishable from a centuries-old hanging-scroll watercolour: gingko leaves like dabs of black against a ...

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 ...

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. William Eggleston is a man of few words but his ...