Features
‘No story of painting in St Ives is complete without W.S. Graham’
An exhibition on the art of the Scottish poet reveals the impact that his friendship with the St Ives artists had on his own work
How the V&A Dundee is rewriting the history of Scotland
The country’s first design museum is taking a cosmopolitan approach to presenting the national story
The Design Museum Zurich gets a stylish makeover
The refurbished museum is filled with fascinating objects from New Wave typography to a Swiss railway clock
In losing its national museum, Brazil has been robbed of a chapter of its history
The museum housed in the former royal palace in Rio de Janeiro was once a symbol of national pride and progress
Art goes underground at a new museum in Helsinki
The Amos Rex brings together classic Finnish functionalism and a futuristic underground space
The remarkable rebirth of the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo
The pioneering space for contemporary art has reopened and transformed itself into a vital local centre
The museum pieces that every school kid in the US needs to see
Five leading museum directors pick objects that should be seen by every child in America
The triumph of Tintoretto
To mark the 500th anniversary of Tintoretto’s birth, the Venetian artist is finally having a major exhibition in his hometown
Creating a scene on stage
How set designers and scene painters have beguiled audiences through the centuries
The lasting legacy of Thomas Chippendale
Three hundred years after the cabinet-maker’s birth, his name is still a byword for excellence
Eight bars and restaurants for art lovers
Forget the food … where can you go for a good interior, an artist-run hub, or some art worth looking at on the walls?
The Italian painter who travelled to the Holy Land with John Singer Sargent
The discovery that Sargent made the journey with Alberto Falchetti sheds new light on both artists
The Horniman Museum takes on the world
The London museum’s outstanding ethnographic collections finally have a fitting home
Celebrating the diversity of Chicago’s cultural landscape
The Terra Foundation’s year-long cultural programme shines a spotlight on the ‘third coast’ of America
Acquisitions of the month: July 2018
A 16-metre-long Chinese scroll and some Surrealist masterpieces are among this month’s top acquisitions
Eight artists’ gardens that are artworks in their own right
Artists have often been inspired by gardens – and some have created outdoor masterpieces of their own
The many faces of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
The distorted Character Heads of the 18th-century sculptor have long perplexed critics
The museum pieces every school kid in the Netherlands should see
Leading figures pick objects from Dutch collections that should be seen by every schoolchild in the Netherlands
Dystopia lands in London’s Docklands
Lawrence Lek and Kode9 explore sound, architecture and the changing city in their installation at arebyte gallery
The mysteries and marvels of Sir Richard Wallace
This summer the Wallace Collection turns the spotlight on its enigmatic namesake
Apollo recommends arty novels for the summer
Nobody wants to take a coffee table book to the beach, so here’s some fiction about art – picked by Apollo’s editors
The museum pieces that every school kid needs to see
Leading figures pick objects from UK collections that should be seen by every child in the country
Artistic strategies on China’s new Silk Road
The second Yinchuan Biennale is part of an official drive to open up the city to international visitors
The fantastical designs of the Dutch Golden Age
An exhibition at the Rijksmuseum explores the inventive language of the 17th-century auricular style
Are the art market’s problems being blown out of proportion?