It is difficult to think of a writer in the modern era whose name is as instantly recognisable, and whose work has been subject to as many adaptations and reinterpretations, as Agatha Christie. The ...

‘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 ...

From the October 2026 issue of Apollo. Art Basel Paris is the smallest fair in the Art Basel roster, but it still dominates the French capital. This month more than 200 exhibitors of modern and ...

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 ...

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.

Success and fame, if they come to an artist at all, usually arrive by one of two routes. Either their work suddenly captures the moment, chiming with current cultural trends or concepts; or else an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the course of her career, Tacita Dean has worked to discover new expressive possibilities for analogue film, by treating it not as a technology but a medium akin to painting or sculpture. With ...

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 ...

In 1781, the sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–83) cut a strange figure. A decade before, he had been an artist at the heart of Viennese high society. Poised to become professor of sculpture at ...