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The International Art Magazine. Published monthly since 1925, we cover everything from antiquities to contemporary work | London
The July/August issue of Apollo is out now, featuring New York’s oldest museum and its new wing for democracy; the future of contemporary sculpture; the Musée du Quai Branly at 20; Côte d’Ivoire’s supersized capital; Peggy Guggenheim’s London era; the dark arts of Zurbarán, and more. buff.ly/nyDzFKw
The June issue of Apollo is out now: featuring the Albertina Museum in Vienna at 250 | an interview with Anish Kapoor | Frederic Church’s miracle home on the Hudson | the fine art of cricket at Lord’s | LACMA’s bold answer to the problem of the ‘universal’ museum – and much more. buff.ly/j2K2HSO
The April issue of Apollo is out now, featuring Schiaparelli among the Surrealists, Italy’s oldest photographs, restoring Dresden’s crowning glory, making museums for young people, Charles and Ray Eames’ designs for modern living, and more buff.ly/uZ9UFQy
‘Charles Laughton’s “Rembrandt” of 1936 was notable, but would you guess it was about Rembrandt from the poster’s tagline: “The Mad Moment of Love Brought Him a Lifetime of Fear.’ Todd McEwen reads Christopher Frayling’s round-up of art history, according to Hollywood
The March issue of Apollo is out now. Inside: The ruff magic of Anthony van Dyck, an interview with Michael Armitage, the princely art of Liechtenstein, saving cultural heritage in wartime, cooking with Brâncuși, a preview of TEFAF Maastricht, and more. buff.ly/oxBi9Aa
At a private view of work by the winners of the Gilbert Bayes Award 2025, curator Freeny Yianni will be in conversation with Apollo at 18:30 on 11 February at TM Gallery, London. Register here to see the show and attend a lively discussion about the current state of sculpture buff.ly/INzgXxx
The February issue of Apollo is out now. Inside: Tracey Emin’s faith in painting, the man who made modern Shanghai, the films of Frederick Wiseman, the martyrdom of Jean-Paul Marat, Luca Signorelli’s way with a crowd, a preview of Asia Week New York, and more. buff.ly/OFoYIWv
The January issue of Apollo is out now, featuring: Gerhard Richter at full scale, the divine art of Fra Angelico, Viollet-le-Duc: the punchbag of Notre-Dame, Miami’s most important art collectors, culture shock in Tudor England, the enlightened attitude of Joseph Wright of Derby and much more
We are delighted to announce that Hew Locke is the winner of the Apollo Artist of the Year award, which is supported by Whisky 1901 apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
We are delighted to announce that the Frick Collection is the winner of the Apollo Museum Opening of the Year award, which is supported by Bloomberg Connects apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
We are delighted to announce that ‘The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist and the Magdalen’ by Fra Angelico, acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, is the winner of the Apollo Acquisition of the Year award, which is supported by BRAFA apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
We are delighted to announce that the Getty Provenance Index is the winner of the Apollo Digital Innovation of the Year award, which is supported by Well of Art apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
We are delighted to announce that ‘Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350’, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery in London, is the winner of the Apollo Exhibition of the Year award, which is supported by TM Lighting apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
We are delighted to announce that ‘Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art’, by Deidre Brown, Ngarino Ellis and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, is the winner of the Apollo Book of the Year award, which is supported by Wedlake Bell apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
We are delighted to announce that Gabriele Finaldi and John Booth are the winners of the Apollo Personality of the Year award, which is supported by Cadogan Tate apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
The six projects shortlisted for Apollo’s Digital Innovation of the Year award this year include a virtual museum of stolen cultural objects, a social media platform tailor-made for art historians and a revamped version of the Getty Provenance Index. See the full list here buff.ly/o70DsPI
The six publications shortlisted for Apollo’s Book of the Year award this year include works about John Singer Sargent, the lure of classical sculpture and the power of art to confront existential threats. See the full list here buff.ly/SeUBQwC
The six acquisitions shortlisted for Apollo’s Acquisition of the Year award this year include major accessions by the Ashmolean, the Rijksmuseum and the Cleveland Museum of Art. See the full list here buff.ly/OL702LT
The six projects shortlisted for Apollo’s Museum Opening of the Year award this year include major redevelopments in London, New York, São Paulo and Warsaw. See the full list here buff.ly/wh2Rq45
The six exhibitions shortlisted for Apollo’s Exhibition of the Year award this year include major shows at institutions including the Met, the Palazzo Strozzi and the Château de Chantilly. See the full list here buff.ly/r9F0SwV
The six artists shortlisted for Apollo’s Artist of the Year award this year are William Kentridge, Hew Locke, Jenny Saville, Wael Shawky, Amy Sherald and Caroline Walker. Here’s why they’re in the running buff.ly/QKYbID5
We are delighted to announce the shortlists for the 2025 edition of the Apollo Awards. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on 20 November and published online and in the December issue of the magazine. View the shortlists here: apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
The October issue of Apollo is out now, featuring Hew Locke and the Empire’s new clothes, the all-new Princeton University Art Museum, William Hogarth’s bedside manner, the making of modern Nigeria, the magic of London mews houses, and much more… apollo-magazine.com/issue/octobe...
The September issue of Apollo is out now, featuring the singularly strange paintings of Georges de La Tour, Britain’s place in the soft-power race, the masterful collecting of Alec Cobbe, Le Creuset at 100, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to view the Mona Lisa of medieval manuscripts – and much more
The September issue of Apollo is out now, featuring the singularly strange paintings of Georges de La Tour, Britain’s place in the soft-power race, the masterful collecting of Alec Cobbe, Le Creuset at 100, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to view the Mona Lisa of medieval manuscripts – and much more
The September issue of Apollo is out now, featuring the singularly strange paintings of Georges de La Tour, Britain’s place in the soft-power race, the masterful collecting of Alec Cobbe, Le Creuset at 100, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to view the Mona Lisa of medieval manuscripts – and much more.
John Keats lived at Wentworth Place in Hampstead for only 17 months near the end of his short life, but there he produced his greatest works and experienced some of his lowest moments, writes Michael Delgado
From Antony Gormley’s stirring metal figures on Crosby Beach to an opera set entirely on a sandy stage, Apollo runs through some of the most interesting beach-themed artworks around
In 1338, the council of nine men who ate together, slept together and ruled Siena together commissioned three murals for the room where they oversaw the business of state. The work known as the Allegory of Good and Bad Government has been the subject of speculation ever since.
‘His passion is what endears Keats so strongly to his devotees and, at the same time, what fuels his detractors; he could be characterised, if we’re being ungenerous, as a teenage poet frozen in time.’ Michael Delgado on the dismally short and astonishingly productive life of John Keats