From the October 2026 issue of Apollo. The last thing you see as you exit the Tintoretto exhibition at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris are two almost identical paintings hung side by side. On the ...
From the September 2026 issue of Apollo. ‘One of the strangest moments of my career was throwing about 250 million pounds into a machine to be shredded,’ says Victoria Cleland, the chief cashier at ...
This review of Museums in the Wake of Empire: Global Collections in Post-War Britain by Claire Wintle appears in the September 2026 issue of Apollo. ‘Some of the mummies […] they’d gone off,’ recalls ...
From the December 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. A short walk from where I grew up in Southampton, in the 1990s, there was a piece of graffiti in big capital letters along a red ...
From the February 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Robert Mintz of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco explains how the tension between tigers and magpies in Korean folk tales made ...
From the April 2021 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In the summer of 1936, when Salvador Dalí gave his famous lecture at the International Surrealist Exhibition in London, delivered ...
John Hollingworth MBE is exhibitions and galleries manager, and Stacey Pierson is a senior lecturer, at SOAS in London. They are the curators of 'Academics, Agents & Activists: A History of the School ...
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 ...
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 ...
York was the capital of the Roman province of Britannia Inferior, a Viking stronghold, a powerbase of King Richard III and for centuries the ecclesiastical centre of northern England, with a church-to ...
From the September 2026 issue of Apollo. Near the top of Hull Maritime Museum, visitors are invited to climb a newly installed spiral staircase into one of the building’s three domes. From there, for ...
Hidden somewhere in the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam is a remarkable bronze medallion featuring a noble-looking man holding a book. His halo and beard make him resemble Jesus – but an Islamic invocation ...
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