Apollo

Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition 2025

Dozens of instantly arresting photographs taken around the world in the last year go on display in this annual show at Somerset House

Suzanne Treister’s tarot offers humanity a new toolbox

The artist has updated her ‘Hexen’ deck charting the rise of the military-industrial complex for an age of climate crisis and disinformation

Design takes a front seat again in Milan

Milan Design Week is, at its best, a comforting reminder of how good design can transform our lives

The fashion house with a bias for the surreal and fantastic in craft

An exhibition in Tokyo celebrating the artists and artisans Loewe has worked with over the decades is tailor-made for craft lovers

David Salle’s brush with artificial intelligence

The artist has used AI to reinterpret some of his old paintings. He explains to Apollo how this technology has given him a newfound freedom

The drugged-up doodles of Henri Michaux

The artist’s mescaline trips in the 1950s and ’60s led to extraordinary acts of creativity, when he tried to pin down their effect on paper

Has the market for women artists stalled?

After rising for a decade, prices for women artists are levelling off. Is the current downturn just a temporary blip?

Smithsonian head tells staff institution ‘remains steadfast’

Plus: director of National Museum of African American History and Culture resigns, and Bavaria’s culture minister promises reform of State Paintings Collection after allegations of institutional failure

The sonic visions of Oliver Beer

The artist tells Apollo how he harnesses the natural resonance of spaces, from caves to tube stations, to create his innovative paintings and installations

No smoking for David Hockney on the Paris metro

Posters of the artist’s upcoming show have been pulled for featuring a cigarette – but he’s hardly the only painter who’s been partial to a puff

Amy Sherald: American Sublime

The portraitist gets her first solo show in New York, featuring striking paintings of cowboys, farmers, beauty queens and Michelle Obama

Thomas Schütte: Genealogies

Some 50 sculptures of heads, busts and bodies by the German artist are on display alongside 100 works on paper, revealing fresh insights into his process

Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s

A chance to see how the Second World War transformed American attitudes towards art, design and fashion

The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making

The National Gallery continues its bicentenary celebrations with two vast, dramatic charcoal-on-paper drawings that are rarely on display

‘The vitality and sheer weirdness is thrilling’ – at the Museum of Cycladic Art

An exhibition of ancient art spanning centuries and islands isn’t afraid to let the objects speak for themselves

When the Nazis pilloried modern art

The attacks on ‘degenerate’ art were brutal and shocking, but the bravery of the artists whose work was singled out should also be remembered

The jazzy life of Gertrude Abercrombie

Once a central figure in Chicago’s mid-century art and jazz scene, this Surrealist painter was long forgotten – until now

Cultural leaders must resist being brought into line

It’s not just federally funded museums that have reason to be wary. Self-censorship is also a danger, and all institutions should stand up for their stated principles

‘It’s not Grandma. But it also is’ – Will Wiles on a family portrait of sorts

The subject of a painting by Marie Laurencin was actually a French film star, but it will always have a strong family connection

What the dismantling of USAID means for world heritage

As development agencies have become increasingly entangled with heritage projects, the end of USAID raises the question of who will fill the funding gap

French winemaking with a South African twist

The Krone winery makes bubbly using French methods, but its steadfast support of artists and chefs is what really makes it sparkle

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

Archives are much more than stuffy storerooms filled with dried-out documents, and might be our best way of connecting to the past

Sebastiano del Piombo’s sound beginning

A new study of the 16th-century painter highlights his musical training and makes some bold claims about attribution

Post-war French ceramics are winning over 21st-century collectors

The expressive sculptural wares made by French artists are experiencing a strong revival of interest