Book of the Year
‘Bilderatlas Mnemosyne – The Original’ by Aby Warburg; Axel Heil and Roberto Ohrt (eds.)
Kandinsky
A career-spanning survey dedicated to the father of abstract painting at the Guggenheim Bilbao
Telling Stories: Resilience and Struggle in Contemporary Narrative Drawing
The Toledo Museum of Art considers three different approaches to graphic art
The Topographical Collection of King George III
Some 18,000 maps and views spanning four centuries have been made freely available online by the British Library
Wild at Heart: Romanticism in Switzerland
This exhibition at Kunsthaus Zürich highlights the influence of the Swiss landscape on Romantic painting
Exhibition of the Year
Artemisia National Gallery, London 3 October–24 January 2021 This display under Letizia Treves’s expert curation gathered 30 works firmly attributed…
Digital Innovation of the Year
Art is where the home is Begun in response to Covid-19, ‘Art is where the home is’ was set up…
Book of the Year
The Age of Undress: Art, Fashion and the Classical Ideal in the 1790s Amelia Rauser Yale University Press This thought-provoking…
Museum Opening of the Year
Aberdeen Art Gallery Reopened November 2019 A renovation and expansion costing £34.6m almost doubled the number of permanent galleries (to…
Artist of the Year
Steve McQueen This has been a busy year for Steve McQueen by anyone’s standards. A career retrospective at Tate Modern…
Acquisition of the Year
Apollo’s longer selection of the year’s most important museum acquisitions is published in the December 2020 issue Art Fund Prospect Cottage,…
Michael Armitage
Artist and founder of the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute, London and Nairobi
Meriem Berrada
Artistic director, Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden, Marrakech; head of cultural projects, Fondation Alliances, Casablanca
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