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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
When I moved to Cambridge last October, it was just meant to be for a couple of months. As a born-and-raised Londoner, I never thought I’d be able to escape the gravitational pull of the capital for ...
For those who really know, the South Wales Valleys are less of a physical place and more of a mindset. To be from the Valleys is to be part of an identity that has been tenacious for centuries. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
From the November 2021 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In 1939, the psychiatrist Walter Maclay found eight coloured drawings in a Notting Hill junk shop. They all show cats. A sepia tabby ...