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First Look: Discoveries

Nicholas Thomas introduces an eclectic new exhibition, ‘Discoveries’ at Two Temple Place

Spot the Difference

One set of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers was popular enough – it’s worth braving the crowds at the National Gallery to see two side by side

Editor’s Letter: Public Gestures

Should the public have a say in exhibition programming? The MFA in Boston seems to think so…

Popularity Contest: Boston Loves Impressionism

The votes are in: these are the 10 most popular Impressionist pieces at the MFA Boston. Pick a favourite…

Cover Story: February Apollo

Our February cover ties in with Katy Barrett’s feature article on the resurgent interest in the cabinet of curiosities…

All Change at the Ashmolean Museum

Alexander Sturgis will take over from Christopher Brown as the Ashmolean Museum’s director in October 2014…

Curiosity Shots

Curiouser and curiouser… unusual items from the University of Cambridge Museums

The Week’s Muse

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A selection of this week’s musings. January always feels rather sleepy, but there’s a sense this week that 2014 is finally under way…

Political Arts

‘I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few’. The William Morris Gallery hosts Jeremy Deller’s playful, provocative, politicised art

Moving On

Digital work by the likes of Michael Craig-Marin, Matthu Placek and David Michalek is changing the face of contemporary portraiture

Capturing a Capital

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James Robertson’s haunting 19th-century photographs are currently on display in Istanbul, the city that inspired them

Dealer’s Choice: Sandra Hindman

Sandra Hindman, the owner of Les Enluminures, speaks to Apollo about medieval manuscripts and her own (modern) collection

Private Views

How do you open a private collection up to the public? A recent symposium at the Courtauld Institute looked at the topical issue

First Look: Joseph Wright of Derby

Amina Wright introduces ‘Joseph Wright of Derby: Bath and Beyond’ at the Holburne Museum

De Chirico Displaced

Exiled from their deserted piazzas, Giorgio de Chirico’s sculptural figures lack the uncanny appeal of his paintings

Found at the Fair

A round-up of the highlights from this year’s contemporary projects at the London Art Fair

Small Wonders: Jerwood Gallery

Liz Gilmore speaks to Apollo about the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings – a new addition to a network of South East coastal galleries in the UK

Book Competition

‘A pleasure to view as well as read’, this week’s competition prize is ‘The King’s Pictures’ by Francis Haskell

First Look: The ‘Furias’

Miguel Falomir introduces ‘The “Furias”: Political Allegory and Artistic Challenge’ at the Prado, Madrid

Apollo Event

This Saturday Apollo hosts a panel discussion at the London Art Fair on ‘Building and the Landscape in Modern British Painting’

Arcadia Outlined

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‘A World of Private Mystery: John Craxton’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum celebrates the artist’s ‘unfashionably happy’ late paintings

Well Met

Art and archaeology aren’t neat categories at the best of times. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they’re allowed to overlap

Fixed Price?

How do we value a work of art that is defaced, incomplete or fake? Is its damaged history actually its greatest asset?

Missing Genius

Castiglione’s works at the Queen’s Gallery skilfully emulate, but never quite live up to, those of his more famous contemporaries