From the November 2026 issue of Apollo. Through the second half of the 20th century, Ernst and Hildy Beyeler amassed one of the world’s finest private collections of modern art, comprising more than ...

‘A desert between two roaring seas’ is how Hans Christian Andersen described Skagen, a small town on the northernmost tip of Denmark, when he visited in 1859. He was not alone in being drawn to the ...

After the scandal caused by Matisse and his fellow Fauvists at the 1905 Salon d’Automne in Paris, at which Gertrude and Leo Stein purchased Woman with a Hat (1905), interest in the painter’s work was ...

Last month thieves broke into the Musée Renoir in Cagnes-sur-Mer and stole four of the artist’s paintings. In their rush to escape, they abandoned two. The work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir might be worth ...

‘I’m never drawing the object itself,’ Roy Lichtenstein once said. ‘I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallised symbol of it.’ In paintings and prints, the artist both ...

Having studied under Ingres and presented work at several Paris Salons and Impressionist exhibitions, Marie Bracquemond was riding high when her husband, the painter and engraver Felix Bracquemond, ...

In 1942 the artist Long Chin-san depicted a riverside spring in a manner that was barely distinguishable from a centuries-old hanging-scroll watercolour: gingko leaves like dabs of black against a ...

‘From the Director’s Office’ is supported by Bloomberg Connects. In the second edition of ‘From the Director’s Office’ – a new series in which we talk to museum directors about their collections and ...

From the 14th to the 18th centuries a game known as colf, a kind of early hybrid of modern golf and hockey, was played on the streets, fields and frozen lakes of the Low Countries. The 17th-century ...

With hundreds of exhibitions and events vying for attention in London during Frieze week, Apollo’s editors pick out the shows they don’t want to miss. Cindy Sherman has been disguising and ...

With hundreds of exhibitions and events vying for attention in London during Frieze week, Apollo’s editors pick out the shows they don’t want to miss. In 1898, the Birmingham-born photographer Emma ...