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 ...

At the centre of Banco Santander’s former headquarters on the Paseo de Pereda is a monumental arch. Built in 1951 by Javier González de Riancho to join two neighbouring buildings, it belonged to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Read an introduction to the Apollo 40.

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 ...

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 ...

From the September 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. The view directly ahead of me is classically, achingly picturesque: Vesuvius as backdrop, its distinctive outline purple-blue ...

The apple originated in the wild. But thousands of varieties have been cultivated over the centuries – and their many associations have been taken up by artists with relish. The apple can mean just ...

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, ...