Apollo – The International Art Magazine

How Milan is refashioning itself as a contemporary art hub

How Milan is refashioning itself as a contemporary art hub

Small Prophets taps into the weird roots of English suburbia

Small Prophets taps into the weird roots of English suburbia

Michael Armitage’s raw material

Michael Armitage’s raw material

No hard cheese for women in the Low Countries

No hard cheese for women in the Low Countries

The special effect that Amélie had on cinema

The special effect that Amélie had on cinema

Rose Wylie does it her way

Rose Wylie does it her way

Can the V&A win at the generation game?

Can the V&A win at the generation game?

The museum hopes its new branch in east London is an answer to how to get younger, more diverse audiences through the door. But can such efforts survive in a changing political landscape?

30 March 2026

How Milan is refashioning itself as a contemporary art hub

How Milan is refashioning itself as a contemporary art hub

30 March 2026

The art of looking closely

The art of looking closely

30 March 2026

Simply red: a short history of Shiraz

Simply red: a short history of Shiraz

Christina Makris

30 March 2026

Rome’s first photography museum wants to be a European heavyweight

Rome’s first photography museum wants to be a European heavyweight

Catherine Bennett

30 March 2026

Absolutely prefab: how Charles and Ray Eames changed the idea of home

Absolutely prefab: how Charles and Ray Eames changed the idea of home

The name Eames is synonymous with the famous lounge chair they designed, but they were also interested in the big questions about how to build and how to live

30 March 2026

Restoring Dresden’s crowning glory

Restoring Dresden’s crowning glory

The city has been rebuilding the Residenzschloss, home of its one-time ruler Augustus the Strong, since the Second World War – and the results are worth the wait

Michael Delgado

30 March 2026

View-finding in Italy

View-finding in Italy

30 March 2026

The bachelors who left their pads to the nation

The bachelors who left their pads to the nation

30 March 2026

UK government to explore charging international visitors to national museums

UK government to explore charging international visitors to national museums

Apollo

27 March 2026

Bernardo Bellotto, urban legend

Bernardo Bellotto, urban legend

Apollo

30 March 2026

In praise of Schiaparelli, the designer who gave the Surrealists ideas

In praise of Schiaparelli, the designer who gave the Surrealists ideas

From her shoe hat to her skeleton dress, the couturier’s playful creations show why she felt so at home with the avant-garde artists of her day

Stephen Patience

30 March 2026

In the studio with...

In the studio with...

Gelitin

Gelitin

Working together for more than 30 years, this quartet of artists’ idea of a studio is an experimental as their art

Apollo

6 March 2026

In the studio with...

Elisabeth Cummings

Elisabeth Cummings

The artist has lived in Italy and Salzburg, studying under Oskar Kokoschka, but it’s in her peaceful studio in the Australian bush that she feels most at home

Apollo

20 March 2026

In the studio with...

Jonathan Wateridge

Jonathan Wateridge

In his Norfolk studio, the artist enjoys a refreshing sense of solitude after years spent in the close confines of London

Apollo

10 February 2026

In the studio with...

Charles Avery

Charles Avery

In his east London studio, the Scottish artist blocks out the neighbourhood chaos with noise-cancelling headphones and tennis commentary

Apollo

3 October 2025

April 2026 magazine cover

Schiaparelli among the Surrealists | Italy’s oldest photographs | restoring Dresden’s crowning glory | making museums for young people

Plus: Bernardo Bellotto in Venice, Charles and Ray Eames at home, Milan‘s growing cultural clout, the stubborn persistence of Renaissance beauty ideals and Rome’s first photography museum; and, in reviews, the second coming of Tracey Emin, the bachelors who left their pads to the nation, Joe Brainard’s countercultural comics, and more

News

UK government to explore charging international visitors to national museums

27 MARCH 2026

UK government to explore charging international visitors to national museums

Hundreds of Venice Biennale participants call for Israel pavilion to be cancelled

20 MARCH 2026

Hundreds of Venice Biennale participants call for Israel pavilion to be cancelled

UNESCO calls for ‘maximum restraint’ as US-Israeli bombing damages heritage sites in Iran

15 MARCH 2026

UNESCO calls for ‘maximum restraint’ as US-Israeli bombing damages heritage sites in Iran

Russia makes controversial return to Venice Biennale after six years

8 MARCH 2026

Russia makes controversial return to Venice Biennale after six years

Christophe Leribault appointed director of Louvre after Laurence des Cars resigns

25 FEBRUARY 2026

Christophe Leribault appointed director of Louvre after Laurence des Cars resigns

Henrike Naumann, artist representing Germany at Venice Biennale, dies at 41

20 FEBRUARY 2026

Henrike Naumann, artist representing Germany at Venice Biennale, dies at 41

A Cornish scene where nothing happens, but every detail is full of life

A Cornish scene where nothing happens, but every detail is full of life

For Benjamin Markovits, a Cornish scene by Michael Canney hits the sweet spot between figuration and abstraction

Benjamin Markovits

30 March 2026

The second coming of Tracey Emin

The second coming of Tracey Emin

Digby Warde-Aldam

30 March 2026

Small Prophets taps into the weird roots of English suburbia

Small Prophets taps into the weird roots of English suburbia

27 March 2026

Edmonia Lewis’s life is shrouded in silence, but her sculptures speak for themselves

Edmonia Lewis’s life is shrouded in silence, but her sculptures speak for themselves

30 March 2026

No hard cheese for women in the Low Countries

No hard cheese for women in the Low Countries

26 March 2026

How Viollet-le-Duc rebuilt a nation

How Viollet-le-Duc rebuilt a nation

The French architect is famous for adding a spire to Notre-Dame, but he hit other heights too – and his misses are just as revealing

30 March 2026

Rakewell

The return of Zinedine Zidane

Lily Allen brings a smile to the NPG

Wildlife vs Winston Churchill

Bob Dylan in incognito mode

27 February 2026

The Tate time-travels to the 1990s

22 February 2026

Tsk-tusk: a tale of two elephants

15 February 2026

The renaissance of the Olympic opening ceremony

Rakewell

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