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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1923 André Malraux (1901–76) was a young dandy with few achievements to his name, but he was already circulating in Parisian high society on the strength of his personality. To his new wife Clara ...