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 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 ...

Ye Ying is a leading Chinese contemporary art and cultural critic, and has been Editor-in-Chief of The Art Newspaper China since its foundation in 2013. Previously, she was the Arts Editor at Chinese ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘Mercilessly death reaped the ranks of the first pioneers. Never will we pay enough tribute to their memory.’ So reads an inscription in the Memorial Hall of the Africa Museum (formerly the Royal ...

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 ...

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 ...

On 29 April, ‘Eric Gill: The Body’ opens at the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft in West Sussex. The exhibition will celebrate the sculptor’s art, but also promises to address those distressing details ...

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 ...

Benin City will soon have a permanent display of its court bronzes for the first time in over a century. What makes these artworks so extraordinary? In the Edo language, the verb sa-e-y-ama means ‘to ...

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 ...