In 1905 Helene Kröller-Müller, the wife of a shipping magnate, began taking art appreciation classes with the influential critic (and teacher and dealer) H.P. Bremmer at her home in The Hague. Bremmer ...

Founded in 1925 and published monthly, Apollo is one of the world’s oldest and most respected magazines on the visual arts. It covers everything from antiquities to contemporary work, as well as ...

Museums in the UK may be obsessed with bumping up their visitor numbers, but more isn’t always more From the September 2026 issue of Apollo. Providing access to artworks has always been a question of ...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) began collecting Impressionist art in 1929, when the real-estate developer and sometime Chicago Times editor William Preston Harrison donated 10 paintings ...

The Scottish painter Andrew Cranston creates playful, delicate works that interweave art historical references and personal memories. This solo exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield – his first in a ...

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, ...

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 ...

With more than 150 works, this exhibition at the Petit Palais in Paris (29 March–24 July) looks at the career of Giovanni Boldini – the Italian ‘Master of Swish’ who captured Parisian high society ...

From the October 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. William Hogarth always had an eye for an opportunity. Fresh from the success of A Rake’s Progress (1732–34), published in engraved ...

The London museum scene was dominated in 2025 by the culmination of the National Gallery’s bicentenary and its much-anticipated unveiling of the new-look Sainsbury Wing. The Victoria and Albert Museum ...

It is no surprise that the Surrealist artist and writer Ithell Colquhoun (1906–88) was so intrigued by Glendalough, the monastic settlement in County Wicklow. The valley, with its round tower, holy ...

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 ...