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 ...

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 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 ...

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 February 2026 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. For a visitor to London in the 1840s, the giant subterranean kitchens of the brand-new Reform Club were an unmissable sight.

When the sculptor was announced for the US Pavilion at Venice, many in the art world declared their unfamiliarity with his work, doubts about the selection process and incredulity that abstract art ...

For 40 years, the Fondation Cartier has been moving closer to the heart of Paris. Its first home was in the south-western suburb of Jouy-en-Josas, in a 19th-century chateau set in a 14-hectare park.

From the October 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Giovanni Antonio Canal’s paintings are immediately recognisable but rarely set pulses racing. That changed this summer, when a ...

An 18th-century gallerist is showing an aristocratic client a painting that hangs in a stately home. ‘This is by Lodovico Cardi, a disciple of Alessandro Allori,’ he announces, standing in front of a ...

The €30m sale of a long-lost painting by Gustav Klimt, which last year broke the record for the highest price ever achieved at auction in Austria, has fallen through due to concerns about its ...

Owen Hatherley’s new book is ‘The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century’ (Allen Lane). The book, which looks at the fields of photography, film, ...

Last week, the BBC aired what’s likely to be the final instalment of its coverage of what has been called the biggest dig at Pompeii in a generation. Two years ago, excavations began at a block on Via ...