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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

Fourteenth-century Siena entered the spotlight in 2024–25, when the Met in New York and the National Gallery in London put on a major exhibition of Sienese paintings made between 1300 and 1350.

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. Robert Ryman, who died in 2019, stretched the ...

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 ...