The Asian Art in London Art Awards 2017: The Winners
Apollo presents the winners of this year’s Asian Art in London Art Awards
Acquisitions of the month: October 2017
A hoard of Viking-era treasures has gone to the National Museums Scotland, while the Towner Art Gallery has secured an impressive contemporary installation
Flashback to the future
For its fifth edition, Turin’s Flashback art fair has taken a sci-fi turn
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Joseph Banks’ Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook’s First Voyage’
Acquisitions of the month: September 2017
The Chrysler Museum celebrated its biggest gift in decades last month, while the Met acquired an extremely unusual coffin
The Apollo podcast: Rob and Nick Carter
Thomas Marks talks to artists Rob and Nick Carter about their Yoga Photograms series
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Charles Tunnicliffe, Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné’ by Robert Meyrick and Harry Heuser (Royal Academy of Arts)
Is the system for protecting historic buildings working?
The procedures for protecting England’s historic buildings are now 70 years old. Is the system still fit for purpose?
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio’ by Sophie Bowness (Tate Publishing)
The Apollo 40 Under 40 Global launch, in pictures
Celebrating the new, global edition of the Apollo 40 Under 40 at the Garden Museum on Thursday evening
Why it’s time for auction houses to start talking to each other
Rob Weisberg, CEO of Invaluable, discusses the challenges and opportunities facing the auction sector
Acquisitions of the month: August 2017
This month’s acquisitions include a major collection of African art, a treasure from Queen Victoria’s personal collection, and a beautiful 18th-century landscape
Book competition
Your chance to win ’Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed’ (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Gainsborough: A Portrait’ by James Hamilton (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Highland Retreats: The Architecture and Interiors of Scotland’s Romantic North’ by Mary Miers (Rizzoli)
Acquisitions of the month: July 2017
This month’s acquisitions include a rare portrait by Richard Wilson, the Edward Hopper archive and an exceptional group of drawings
Harold M. Williams (1928–2017)
The founding president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust has died at the age of 89
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe’ by Peter Björn Kerber (Getty Publications)
The Apollo podcast: Amanda Levete
Thomas Marks talks to architect Amanda Levete about the V&A’s Exhibition Road Quarter, designed by her practice AL_A
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Sargent: The Watercolours’ by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray (Dulwich Picture Gallery)
Acquisitions of the month: June 2017
A huge collection of Diane Arbus photographs heads for Ontario, and the Getty finally gets its Parmigianino
Do the prices at auction muddy our interpretation of art?
In May, a painting by Basquiat sold at auction for $110.5m. But when does money overtake other judgements?
Do museums need to be more socially engaged?
Alistair Hudson and Elisabeth Callihan ask whether today’s museums could be more useful