As museums and galleries in the UK reopen, Apollo’s editors pick out the exhibitions they’re most looking forward to visiting
Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz’s four-volume treatise, newly translated and edited, deserves to be more widely read
The public library has survived and even thrived through historical crises, but how will it recover from the coronavirus pandemic?
The Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy breathed new life into this ancient material in the 1940s – and it’s time it made another comeback
Register now for the first event in our ‘Museums of the Mind’ series – Mat Collishaw, Shoair Mavlian and Bill Sherman in conversation with Fatema Ahmed about ‘Photography and the Museum’
Plus: Roselyne Bachelot named France’s new culture minister, outdoor performances to resume in England, and more art news
The shop window has long been a playground for artists – and looks set to be so more than ever in the months ahead
How have art businesses coped with the crisis – and what might they look like post-lockdown?
Rowan Moore and Tamsin Dillon consider how the events of 2020 might transform our relationship with public space
The director of the National Gallery on what visitors can expect when the museum reopens – and how, while it’s been closed, it has been rethinking its relationship with its audience
The encounter between Mary Magdalene and the risen Christ has challenged the artists who have chosen to represent it
While Apollo’s roving correspondent is more than ready to go to the pub, he can’t help wondering if it will all end in Hogarthian tears
Monuments to the American Civil War have locked in place partial versions of the past – but other stories will emerge when we know more about how and why they were erected
The French photographer’s chosen ‘Master Set’ of his most important works is the focus at the reopened Palazzo Grassi
An array of functional objects at the Musée du Cluny shows how medieval people ate, played, prayed, and took care of themselves
Revisiting the American artist’s powerful depictions of human rights at Denver Art Museum
Intriguing domestic scenes by the pupil of Rembrandt go back on show at the reopened National Gallery
Five decades of drawings by Giuseppe Penone and a dazzling drunkard by Joaquin Sorolla are among this month’s highlights
From 3 to 10 July the galleries of Mayfair and St James’s are putting on physical and digital displays to appeal to dedicated connoisseurs and casual browsers alike
The role of leading Anglo-Jewish figures in the development of the fledgling museum deserves to be better known
Plus: Milton Glaser (1929–2020), French dealer who sold gold coffin to the Met charged with fraud, and more art news
The contested building was recently, for the first time, the site of the annual celebration of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
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