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 ...

From the September 2026 issue of Apollo. Less than a quarter of the way into the Bayeux Tapestry, a small, puzzling scene interrupts the course of events. At this point, we are still in the long ...

From the May 2026 issue of Apollo. The international art world diary bursts into life in spring. In May, the preview of the Biennale draws thousands of directors, curators, collectors, gallerists, ...

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, ...

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 February 2026 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. I meet Miquel Barceló in the sterile surroundings of a hotel foyer in December, in the far south-east corner of Spain. On an empty ...

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 ...

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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 ...

From the December 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. A curious new feature has emerged in the public spaces of some American cities over the past decade: the empty plinth. In New ...

Assumption of the Virgin (c. 1650–55), Laurent de La Hyre Laurent de La Hyre, who was born in Paris in 1606, was one of the chief exponents of Parisian Atticism, a mid 17th-century neoclassical ...

At the northernmost point of Denmark, jutting out towards Sweden, sits Skagen, a remote village known not just for its lively trade in herring but also as a place of austere natural beauty. For ...