Acquisition of the Year
The collection of MJ Long and Colin St John Wilson: 175 works
Book of the Year
‘Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment’ by Fabio Barry
Exhibition of the Year
‘Alice Neel: People Come First’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France
The Denver Art Museum takes a broad look at the links between Paris and the United States during the 19th century
Howardena Pindell: A New Language
The Fruitmarket in Edinburgh explores how the American artist has spoken truth to power since the 1970s
Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution
The Russian goldsmith’s opulent trinkets – going on view at the V&A – delighted Edwardian high society
La Chine: The 18th-century China Collection of the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett
Highlights from Augustus the Strong’s vast collection of Chinese paintings, prints and drawings go on view in Dresden
Exhibition of the Year
Alice Neel: People Come First Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 22 March–1 August In around 100 paintings, drawings and…
Museum Opening of the Year
Casa Balla, Rome Opened June 2021 For nearly 30 years, from 1929 until his death in 1958, Giacomo Balla lived…
Book of the Year
A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture, 1540–1640 Mark Girouard Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The eminent architectural…
Artist of the Year
Dawoud Bey Dawoud Bey has been making his compelling photographic portraits for five decades. Ranging from images of Harlem in…
Digital Innovation of the Year
Digital Violence This website presents the findings of Forensic Architecture’s investigation into the use of the malware Pegasus, made by…
Acquisition of the Year
Apollo’s longer selection of the year’s most important museum acquisitions will be published in the December 2021 issue Château de Versailles…
Bamana Mud Cloth: From Mali to the World
The Dallas Museum of Art explores the symbolism of the intricately patterned cloths known as ‘bogolanfini’
Painting Apart from the World: Monks and Scholars of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
A collection of Chinese masterpieces gets its first European outing at the Musée Cernuschi
Rubens: Picturing Antiquity
The Getty Villa explores the Flemish painter’s debt to the classical world
Peru: A Journey in Time
The British Museum charts the history of Andean cultures across some 3,000 years
Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks
The British artist has always treated identity as a slippery thing, as this retrospective at the Guggenheim makes clear
Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City
The Frist Art Museum explores how the Italian city blossomed during the Middle Ages
The Solly Collection, 1821–2021: Founding the Berlin Gemäldegalerie
The English merchant Edward Solly’s prodigious collecting formed the basis of Berlin’s great picture gallery
Hogarth and Europe
This exhibition at Tate Britain compares the English painter to his continental contemporaries
Jens Adolf Jerichau
The Louisiana pays tribute to a modernist artist who died young, but had a lasting influence on Danish painting
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