<iframe src="//www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-PWMWG4" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden">
Apollo
Nav toggle
Register

Crowned Buddha touching the head of a King (8th–9th century), Kashmir or Gilgit. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

18 May 2015

Recommended for you

End Matter: Katrina Palmer explores the source of Portland stone

Palmer’s project for Artangel looks at the negative space left by some of the world’s great monuments

Baltic Diary: May

What have the Baltic nations contributed to the Venice Biennale?

Avert your Eyes: Censored Art Masterpieces

The Picasso painting censored by Fox 5 News is just the latest major artwork to be deemed indecent

Leave a comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Current Issue

April 2025

View this issue

Most popular

  • Recent

Podcast

Masterpiece [Re]discovery 2022. Photo: Ben Fisher Photography, courtesy of Masterpiece London

The Masterpiece podcast: episode three

This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites

Art news daily

Trump issues executive order to remove ‘improper ideology’ from Smithsonian

British Library’s £1.1bn extension goes ahead, backed by Japanese developer

Tate cuts 40 roles and runs budget deficit

Latest Comment

What the dismantling of USAID means for world heritage

When the Nazis pilloried modern art

‘Archives are the closest thing we have to a time machine’

© 2024 Apollo Magazine
22 Old Queen Street, London, SW1H 9HP